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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: February 1, 1954 in San Gabriel, CA Biography:One of the best child actors of the 1950s and 1960s, freckled-faced "Billy Mumy" performed with a directness and sincerity that put many an adult performer to shame. Before he was even ten years old, Mumy had played two of the most unforgettable juveniles in TV history: malevolently telekinetic Anthony Fremont on the 1961 Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life," and the pistol-toting protagonist of "Bang! You're Dead," an incredibly suspenseful 1962 installment of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, directed by Hitchcock himself. In films from 1963, Mumy's finest cinematic hour-and-a-half was as Erasmus Leaf, an 8-year-old math genius with an all-consuming crush on "Brigitte Bardot", in 1965's "Dear Brigette". From 1965 to 1968, Mumy appeared as Will Robinson on the popular TV sci-fi fantasy series "Lost in Space". As Mumy matured, he found roles harder to come by, though he was given generous screen time... Full Biography
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