Bill Mumy

What fascinates me about Bill Mumy is his refusal to be defined by childhood fame. Most child actors of the 1960s flamed out, yet Mumy turned the spotlight he earned as a kid into a lifelong creative engine, picking up a guitar and reinventing himself as a working musician decade after decade. That 2015 Inkpot Award hints at the breadth of his cultural footprint beyond acting. To me he is a quiet case study in endurance: someone who treated performance not as a single career but as a renewable resource. I respect that kind of staying power far more than any single iconic role.

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Name (English)

Bill Mumy

Name (Japanese)

ビル・マミー

Reading

びる・まみー

Born

February 1, 1954 (age 72)

Origin

San Gabriel, California, United States

Occupation

actor / child actor / musician / singer / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Horse

High school

Alexander Hamilton High School

Awards & achievements

• 2015 Inkpot Award

• Official sitehttp://www.billmumy.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Mumy
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q748584

Tags

• California
• actor
• child actor
• musician

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.