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Charles William Mumy Jr. (/ˈmuːmi/; born February 1, 1954[2]) is an American actor, writer, and musician and a figure in the science-fiction community/comic book fandom. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor, which 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.

Bill Mumy
Mumy at Phoenix Comicon in May 2013
Born	Charles William Mumy Jr. (1954-02-01) February 1, 1954 (age 68) San Gabriel, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor musician writer producer
Years active	1957−present
Spouse	Eileen Joy Davis ​ (m. 1986)​
Children	2, including Liliana
Awards	Inkpot Award (2015)[1]
Website	www.billmumy.com

Mumy later appeared as lonely teenager Sterling North in the Disney film Rascal (1969) and Teft in the film Bless the Beasts and Children (1971).

In the 1990s, Mumy performed the role of Lennier in all five seasons of the syndicated sci-fi TV series Babylon 5 and narrated A&E Network's Emmy Award-winning series Biography.

Mumy is also known for his musical career as a guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer: he is an Emmy nominee for original music in Adventures in Wonderland (1992). As a musician Mumy performs as a solo artist, an occasional guest performer, and as half of the duo Barnes & Barnes. From 1988 through the 90s he performed at the San Diego Comic-Con and other comics-related events as part of the band Seduction of the Innocent (named after the titular book by Fredric Wertham) along with Miguel Ferrer, Steve Leialoha, Max Allan Collins and John "Chris" Christensen. The band released one CD, The Golden Age.[3]

Early life and career

Mumy was born in San Gabriel, California, to Charles William Mumy (December 28th, 1904 - August 7th, 1995), a cattle rancher, and Muriel Gertrude Mumy (née Gould; July 19th, 1912 - December 29th, 2010) .[4] He 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.[5] He has also worked as a musician, songwriter, recording artist, and writer.[6]

Television and film career

Among Mumy's earliest television roles was six-year-old Willy in the "Donald's Friend" (1960) episode of the NBC-TV family drama series National Velvet, starring Lori Martin. He starred in three episodes of CBS-TV's original Twilight Zone: "It's a Good Life" (November 1961), as a child who terrorizes his town with psychic powers (a role he later reprised along with his daughter Liliana in the "It's Still a Good Life" episode of the second revival series); "In Praise of Pip" (September 1963), as a vision of Jack Klugman's long-neglected dying son; and "Long Distance Call" (March 1961) as Billy Bayles, who talks to his dead grandmother through a toy telephone.

In 1961, 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". The same year, Mumy starred as little Jackie in the episode "Bang! You're Dead", featuring Marta Kristen, who later played his sister Judy on Lost in Space. Mumy was cast as Mark Murdock in the "Keep an Eye on Santa Claus" (1962) episode of the ABC-TV drama series Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly. His fellow guest stars were Cloris Leachman (who played his mother in "It's a Good Life"), Steve Brodie, and Frank McHugh.[7]

At age eight, Mumy appeared in Jack Palance's ABC-TV circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth (1963); he was cast as Miles, a parentless boy, in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Shifty Shoebox" (1963), and he portrayed Freddy in the "End of an Image" (1963) episode of NBC-TV's modern Western series Empire, starring Richard Egan.

In 1964, he was cast as Richard Kimble's nephew in ABC-TV's The Fugitive episode, "Home Is the Hunted"; as Barry in the NBC-TV medical drama The Eleventh Hour episode "Sunday Father"; as himself three times in the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; in the Disney film For the Love of Willadena; and as a troubled orphan taken in by the Stephenses in the Bewitched fantasy sitcom episode "A Vision of Sugarplums" (December 1964), on ABC-TV.

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. The role instead went to Butch Patrick. Mumy appeared in one episode as a friend of Eddie's.

Mumy guest starred in an episode of NBC-TV's I Dream of Jeannie, "Whatever Became of Baby Custer?" (1965). That same year, he also appeared in an episode of Bewitched entitled "Junior Executive" (1965), in which he played a young Darrin Stephens.

Mumy starred in Dear Brigitte (1965), a film adaptation of the novel Erasmus with Freckles, as Erasmus Leaf, a child mathematical genius who develops a crush on Brigitte Bardot (played by herself in the film). His parents, played by James Stewart and Glynis Johns, attempt to manage his obsession.[8]

Lost in Space and beyond

From 1965 to 1968, Mumy portrayed Will Robinson in Lost in Space, the recipient of numerous warnings (including "Danger, Will Robinson") from the show's robot character, voiced by Dick Tufeld.[9]

Mumy was later cast in Bless the Beasts and Children (1971) as Teft, a leader in a group of misfit teenage boys resolved to save a herd of bison from hunters. He also played a musician friend of Cliff DeYoung's character in the TV movie Sunshine (1973), later reprising the role in Sunshine Christmas and in the TV series Sunshine. In 1974, 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. In 1988, he played Ben Matlock's genius nephew, Dr. Irwin Bruckner, on Matlock.

In 1996, Mumy was a writer and co-creator of Space Cases,[10] a Nickelodeon television show with themes similar to those of Lost in Space. Between 1994 and 1998, he played the ambassadorial aide Lennier in the syndicated science fiction series Babylon 5. In November 1998, he played Kellin, a Starfleet officer, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Siege of AR-558", in which he assists in defeating a Jem'Hadar detachment. To Mumy's delight,[11] his character was human this time due to makeup time and his distaste as being known as an "alien actor"; while playing Lennier in Babylon 5, he was required to wear prosthetic makeup. Mumy later appeared in a 2006 episode of Crossing Jordan and in the Syfy original film A.I. Assault.[12]

In 2018, Mumy appeared in the pilot episode of the Netflix remake series, Lost in Space. His character's name is Dr. Z. Smith, in homage to the character played by Jonathan Harris in the 1965 television series.

Voice acting career

Mumy has narrated over 50 episodes of the Arts & Entertainment Channel's Biography series, as well as hosted and narrated several other documentaries and specials for A & E, Animal Planet network, The Sci-Fi Channel, and E!. His voice acting talents can be heard on animated shows like 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. He has done voice over work in national commercials for such businesses as Bud Ice, Farmers Insurance, Ford, Blockbuster, Twix, Oscar Mayer and McDonald's.^{[citation needed]}

Music

Mumy is an accomplished musician who plays the banjo, bass, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, mandolin, and percussion. His various musical credits include songs he has written and recorded with America, performed on tour with Shaun Cassidy, and played with Rick Springfield's band in the film Hard to Hold. He created the band The Be Five with other Babylon 5 actors.[13]

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.[14] Their most famous hit is the song "Fish Heads", which Rolling Stone named one of the top 100 videos of all time. He also performs with the Jenerators, a blues-rock band based in Los Angeles featuring Tom Hebenstreit on vocals, electric guitars, and keyboards; Mumy on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, keyboards and percussion; Gary Stockdale on vocals and bass; Miguel Ferrer on vocals, percussion and drums; David Jolliffe on guitar, percussion and vocals; and Chris Ross on drums and percussion. Additionally, Mumy released a Byrds tribute song, "When Roger Was Jim" (2012). In 2017, along with John Cowsill (The Cowsills) and Vicki Peterson (The Bangles) he founded the Action Skulls. Their first CD, Angels Hear, which also included posthumous contributions from the bassist Rick Rosas, was released on September 27, 2017.[15]

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.[16]

Lost in Space activities in later years

In 1996, Mumy and his Lost in Space costar Jonathan Harris were reunited at a Walt Disney convention in Orlando, Florida. Mumy worked again with Harris on the retrospective special Lost In Space: Forever (1998), where they reprised their roles in a scene written by Mumy (Harris rewrote his own lines). This occurred the year after the rest of the cast (including both Mumy and Harris) stated in a TV Guide article that the Sci Fi Channel planned to do a Lost in Space marathon while promoting a new movie. Harris was to appear in the planned TV movie, Lost in Space: The Journey Home, but died before production was scheduled to start, in 2002, and it was subsequently cancelled. Mumy read the eulogy at Harris' funeral and was asked to narrate an account of his longtime friend's life on A&E Biography that year.

In a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radio's Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny was asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan before they appeared together on Lost in Space. Tocquigny said that at age five, Mumy was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man, which would have been aired late at night, but he was old enough to see The Bill Dana Show.[17]

On June 14, 2006, Mumy got to work with Harris one last time, though posthumously. Years before Harris died, he recorded voice work for the animated short The Bolt Who Screwed Christmas, narrating the film and playing the part of The Bolt. As a tribute to Harris, writer-director John Wardlaw added a scene that reunited Lost in Space cast members Mumy, Marta Kristen, and Angela Cartwright as the animated Ratchett family.[18]

Mumy appears in two episodes of the 2018 series "Lost in Space" on Netflix. He plays the role of Dr. Smith, whose identity is stolen by June Harris, the villain.

Mumy attends Lost in Space reunions and shows, and co-authored a 2015 book, Lost (and Found) in Space with Angela Cartwright.[19]

Mumy and Angela Cartwright co-authored the 2021 book, Lost (and Found) in Space 2: Blast Off into the Expanded Edition.[20][21]

Other work

Mumy and co-author Peter David published a short story, "The Black '59" (1992), in the anthology Shock Rock, edited by F. Paul Wilson.[22]

He has also written a number of comics. With his friend, the late Miguel Ferrer, Mumy created Comet Man and Trypto the Acid Dog. They also co-wrote the Marvel Graphic Novel The Dreamwalker.[23]

Personal life

Mumy married Eileen Joy Davis on October 9, 1986.[4] They live in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles with their two children, Seth (b. 1989) and Liliana (b. 1994).[24][25]

Television and filmography

Year	Film/Television	Role	Notes
1960	The Tom Ewell Show	Jeffrey Nelson	Episode: "Tom Puts the Girls to Work"
1961	The Twilight Zone	Billy Bayles	Episode: "Long Distance Call"
1961	The Twilight Zone	Anthony Fremont	Episode: "It's a Good Life"
1961	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Jackie Chester	Episode: "Bang! You're Dead"
1961	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Mickey, the boy	Episode: "The Door Without a Key"
1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Tony Mitchell	Episode: "House Guest"
1962	Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color	Petey Loomis	Episode: "Sammy, the Way-Out Seal"
1962	The Jack Benny Program	34-Lb Boy	Episode: "Jack and the Crying Cab Driver"
1962	Wagon Train	Toddy	Episode: "The Sam Darland Story"
1963	A Child Is Waiting	Boy counting Jean's pearls
1963	A Ticklish Affair	Alex Martin
1963	Palm Springs Weekend	'Boom Boom' Yates
1963	The Twilight Zone	Young Pip Phillips	Episode: "In Praise of Pip"
1963	Perry Mason	Miles Jefferson	Episode: "The Case of the Shifty Shoebox"
1964	Bewitched	Michael (Orphan Boy)	Episode: "A Vision of Sugar Plums"
1964	The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet	Billy	3 episodes
1965	The Virginian	Willy
1965	Dear Brigitte	Erasmus Leaf
1965	I Dream of Jeannie	Custer	Episode: "Whatever Became of Baby Custer?"
1965	The Munsters	Googie Miller	Episode: "Come Back Little Googie"
1965	Bewitched	Darrin the Boy	Episode: "Junior Executive"
1965–68	Lost in Space	Will Robinson	84 episodes
1968	Wild in the Streets	Boy	Uncredited
1969	Rascal	Sterling North
1969	Lancer	Andy Cutler	Episode: "The Kid"
1970	Here Come the Brides	Simon Bill	Episode: "Break the Bank of Tacoma"
1971	Bless the Beasts and Children	Teft
1973	Papillon	Lariot
1974	The Rockford Files	Nick Butler	"Backlash of the Hunter" (pilot)
1975	Sunshine	Weaver	15 episodes
1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Tim (Segment #3)
1984	Hard to Hold	Keyboard Player
1988	Matlock	Dr. Irwin Bruckner
1990	Captain America	Young General Fleming
1991	The Flash	Roger Braintree
1991–92	Superboy	Tommy Puck	3 episodes
1992	Double Trouble	Bob
1993	Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero	Fenton	Episode: "Monstrous Meltdown"
1994	Animaniacs	The Farmer (voice)
1994	The Ren & Stimpy Show	Dr. Brainchild (voice)
1994–98	Babylon 5	Lennier	109 episodes
1995	Batman: The Animated Series	The Fox/Warren Lawford (voice)
1996	The Oz Kids	Sam (voice)
1997	The Weird Al Show	UPS guy
1997	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Himself (voice)
1998	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Kellin	Episode: "The Siege of AR-558"
1998	Lost in Space Forever	Himself/Will Robinson	TV Special
2000	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	Eon	2 episodes
2003	The Twilight Zone: Series	Adult Anthony Fremont	Episode: "It's Still a Good Life"
2004	Comic Book: The Movie	Himself	Video
2006	Holly Hobbie & Friends	Bud Morris (voice)	TV Specials
2009	The Bolt Who Screwed Christmas	Knob Ratchett	Theatrical Short
2013–14	Bravest Warriors	Johnny Tezuka (voice)	Web Series 4 episodes
2014	Transformers: Rescue Bots	Vigil (voice)	2 episodes
2018	The Loud House	Timothy "Tim" McCole (voice)	Episode: "A Fridge Too Far"
2018–2019	Lost in Space (2018)	Dr. Zachary Smith	2 episodes

References

Bibliography

• Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 303-304.
• Dye, David. Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914-1985. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1988, p. 166.

External links

• Official website
• Bill Mumy at IMDb 
• Bill Mumy at the TCM Movie Database
• Bill Mumy interviews on Outsight Radio Hours
• Bill Mumy at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
• Bill Mumy at SBV Talent
• Bill Mumy speaks about the character Will Robinson

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[de] Bill Mumy

Charles William Mumy Jr. (* 1. Februar 1954 in San Gabriel, Kalifornien) ist ein US-amerikanischer Musiker und Schauspieler.

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[es] Bill Mumy

Charles William Mumy Jr., conocido en el medio como Bill Mumy, nació el 1 de febrero de 1954 en San Gabriel, California, Estados Unidos. Es actor, escritor y músico y una figura en el fandom de ciencia ficción. Saltó a la fama en la década de 1960 como actor infantil con apariciones en programas de televisión como The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presenta, y un papel en la película Dear Brigitte, seguido de un papel icónico de tres temporadas como Will Robinson en la serie de ciencia ficción de la CBS en la década de 1960 Lost in Space.

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[ru] Муми, Билл

Чарльз Уильям (Билл) Муми-младший (англ. Charles William Mumy Jr., /ˈmuːmi/; род. 1 февраля 1954[3]) — американский актёр. Кроме внушительного списка сыгранных ролей, Билл также талантливый и известный музыкант, автор песен и даже писатель, а кроме того значимая персона в научно-фантастическом сообществе.

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