Celebrity Archive - Bill Mumy

Feb 10, 2014, 03:10 PM

#Celebrity archive #interview with #BillMumy the #American #actor, #musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, #voice-over artist, and a figure in the #science-fiction community. He is perhaps best known for his work as a child actor in film and television throughout the 1960s, then credited as Billy Mumy.

The red-headed Mumy came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor, most notably as #WillRobinson, the youngest of the three children of Professor John and Dr. Maureen Robinson (played by Guy Williams and June Lockhart, respectively) and friend of the nefarious and pompous Dr. Zachary Smith (played by Jonathan Harris), in the 1960s #CBS #sci-fi television series #LostinSpace.

He later appeared as a lonely teenager, Sterling North, in the 1969 #Disney film, Rascal, with Steve Forrest. He was cast as Teft in the 1971 film Bless the Beasts and Children. In the 1990s, he had the role of Lennier in the syndicated sci-fi TV series #Babylon5, and he also served as narrator of A&E Network's Emmy Award-winning series, Biography. He is notable for his musical career, as a solo artist and as half of the duo Barnes & Barnes.