Bill Mumy played Will Robinson in the sci-fi series 'Lost in Space' from 1965 until 1968. He has written a memoir titled 'Danger, Will Robinson: The Full Mumy.”
Bill Mumy calls his start in Hollywood"my lucky break."
"But I’m 4 years old and I’m playing Zorro," he continued."I leaped off our housekeeper’s bed. I landed on my toy Winchester rifle, which is made of solid steel. I broke my leg in half. So for about 12 weeks, I was in a cast from my calf up to my hip. I couldn’t go outside and run around with my friends. All I could do was watch my favorite shows.
"It was really hard," he recalled."We wrapped up the third season and everyone was told, ‘See you in eight weeks.’ There was no wrap party. There was no big deal. And that was because we were coming back. It turned out there were so many reasons that I only learned 40 years later about what happened between the network and [creator] Irwin Allen. But the point is we didn’t come back. I still remember when my agent called and said, ‘The show was canceled.’ It was awful. I cried.
at age 65. The remaining cast reunited in 1995 for the 30th anniversary of the show at a collectors’ expo.As Mumy grew older, he was able to still keep busy pursuing acting in Hollywood.
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