Bill Mumy came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor, whose work included television appearances on Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and a role in the film Dear Brigitte, followed by a three-season role as Will Robinson in the 1960s CBS sci-fi series Lost in Space.
25 Facts About Bill Mumy
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Bill Mumy is known for his musical career as a guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer: he is an Emmy nominee for original music in Adventures in Wonderland.
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Bill Mumy began his professional career at age five and has worked on more than four hundred television episodes, eighteen films, various commercials, and scores of voice-over projects.
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Bill Mumy has worked as a musician, songwriter, recording artist, and writer.
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In 1961, Bill Mumy was cast on CBS-TV's Alfred Hitchcock Presents series in "The Door Without a Key", featuring John Larch, who played his father in "It's a Good Life".
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Bill Mumy was cast as Mark Murdock in the "Keep an Eye on Santa Claus" episode of the ABC-TV drama series Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly.
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At age eight, Bill Mumy appeared in Jack Palance's ABC-TV circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth ; he was cast as Miles, a parentless boy, in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Shifty Shoebox", and he portrayed Freddy in the "End of an Image" episode of NBC-TV's modern Western series Empire, starring Richard Egan.
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Bill Mumy was reportedly the first choice to portray Eddie Munster in the 1964 CBS situation comedy The Munsters, but his parents objected to the extensive makeup requirements.
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Bill Mumy starred in Dear Brigitte, a film adaptation of the novel Erasmus with Freckles, as Erasmus Leaf, a child mathematical genius who develops a crush on Brigitte Bardot.
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Bill Mumy's parents, played by James Stewart and Glynis Johns, attempt to manage his obsession.
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Bill Mumy was later cast in Bless the Beasts and Children as Teft, a leader in a group of misfit teenage boys resolved to save a herd of bison from hunters.
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Bill Mumy played a musician friend of Cliff DeYoung's character in the television film Sunshine, later reprising the role in Sunshine Christmas and in the TV series Sunshine.
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In 1974, Bill Mumy played Nick Butler in the pilot episode of NBC's The Rockford Files and made an appearance in a later episode in season 1 as a sidewalk artist.
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In 1996, Bill Mumy was a writer and co-creator of Space Cases, a Nickelodeon television show with themes similar to those of Lost in Space.
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In 2018, Bill Mumy appeared in the pilot episode of the Netflix remake series, Lost in Space.
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Bill Mumy has worked on animated shows such as Ren and Stimpy, Scooby-Doo, Batman: The Animated Series, Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs, Bravest Warriors, The Oz Kids and Disney's Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and Doc McStuffins.
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Bill Mumy is an accomplished musician who plays the banjo, bass, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, mandolin, and percussion.
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Bill Mumy created the band The Be Five with other Babylon 5 actors.
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Bill Mumy has released a number of solo CDs, including Dying to Be Heard, In the Current, Pandora's Box, After Dreams Come True, Los Angeles Times and Ghosts, as well as nine albums with music partner Robert Haimer as Barnes and Barnes.
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Additionally, Bill Mumy released a Byrds tribute song, "When Roger Was Jim".
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Bill Mumy produces and hosts The Real Good Radio Hour, a weekly series on KSAV Internet Radio focusing on various styles of music and the artists who pioneered them.
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Bill Mumy worked again with Harris on the retrospective special Lost In Space: Forever, where they reprised their roles in a scene written by Bill Mumy.
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On June 14,2006, Bill Mumy got to work with Harris one last time, though posthumously.
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Bill Mumy appears in two episodes of the 2018 series "Lost in Space" on Netflix.
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Bill Mumy attends Lost in Space reunions and shows, and co-authored a 2015 book, Lost in Space with Angela Cartwright.