1. Mike Lookinland is best known for his role as the youngest brother, Bobby Brady, on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974, and all of its sequels and spinoffs.
17 Facts About Mike Lookinland
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Mike Lookinland was born in Mount Pleasant, Utah, to Paul and Karen Mike Lookinland.
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Mike Lookinland's father was a principal at Stephen M White Junior High, Carson, California.
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Mike Lookinland's grandfather was an administrator at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City He has two siblings: sister Theresa and brother Todd, who starred in The Blue Bird with Elizabeth Taylor.
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Mike Lookinland began working as an actor at age seven.
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Mike Lookinland was a TV-commercial actor before he was cast in The Brady Bunch, having done around thirty commercials.
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Mike Lookinland had been offered two roles - Eddie on The Courtship of Eddie's Father and Bobby on The Brady Bunch; his parents chose the latter, feeling it would be healthier for him to be around other children closer to his age rather than an only child on an all-adult cast.
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Mike Lookinland continued to reprise his role as Bobby Brady in the show's many sequels and spin-offs.
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Mike Lookinland reprised his role in the 1981 TV film The Brady Girls Get Married, the 1988 Christmas special A Very Brady Christmas and again in the 1990 sequel series The Bradys, in which Bobby Brady was involved in a racing-car accident, which made him a wheelchair user throughout the series.
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Mike Lookinland spent several years as a television camera operator and made an uncredited appearance in the 2000 film Growing Up Brady as a camera operator filming an episode of The Brady Bunch.
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Mike Lookinland joined with the other Brady Bunch cast in the 2019 television series A Very Brady Renovation on HGTV.
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In 2021, Mike Lookinland returned to acting, starring in the Lifetime Christmas movie, Blending Christmas, alongside his Brady Bunch co-stars Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Susan Olsen, and Robbie Rist.
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Mike Lookinland graduated from Chadwick School in 1978, an independent school located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles, California.
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Mike Lookinland is a self-described Deadhead, having attended more than 100 Grateful Dead concerts and shows.
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Mike Lookinland then overcorrected when trying to steer back onto the pavement and rolled at least two times off the right side of the road.
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On May 27,1998, Mike Lookinland was sentenced to 24 hours of community service and fined $1,500.
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Mike Lookinland cited this incident as having inspired him to stop drinking.