| Mike Lookinland | |
|---|---|
Mike Lookinland at TV Land Awards ceremony in 2009. | |
| Personal Information | |
| Born: | December 19, 1960 |
| Birthplace: | San Pedro, California, U.S. |
| Occupation/ Career: |
Actor |
| Years active: | 1969-2000 |
| Character/Series involvement | |
| Series: | The Brady Bunch The Brady Brides The Bradys |
| Character played: | Bobby Brady |
Michael Paul "Mike" Lookinland (born December 19, 1960) [1] appeared as the youngest brother Bobby Brady on The Brady Bunch.
Biography
Early life
Mike's father was a Vice Principal at San Pedro High School in San Pedro, California, part of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), in the late 1970s. He has a younger brother named Todd, who starred in "Blue Bird" with Elizabeth Taylor and an older sister Theresa. Lookinland grew up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Mormon. He is a self-professed conservationist and "camping nut". He attended the private Chadwick School on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California, and graduated in 1978. During the Brady Bunch years, Mike also attended Hollywood Professional School with co-stars Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight and Susan Olsen.
Mike Lookinland (left) with Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight and Susan Olsen in Hollywood Professional School library, ca. 1972-1973.
Career
Young Mike was a TV commercial actor before he was cast in The Brady Bunch, having done around thirty commercials. He has naturally sandy-colored wavy hair. Because his hair color did not match Peter's or Greg's natural dark brown color, he had to have his hair dyed dark brown and straightened to match. Occasionally, the lights on set though were so hot that his dye job would sometimes run down his face. During the last two seasons of The Brady Bunch, his natural hair color was finally allowed to show. Bobby (Mike) was always the type of kid who was sweet, funny, energetic, and sometimes dramatic during his role on The Brady Bunch.
Mike's brother, Todd, appeared in a Brady Bunch episode that served as the pilot for a spin-off series called Kelly's Kids [2]about a husband and wife that adopt three boys, one white, one black, and one Asian. The pilot was not bought, however. In another episode during the show's final season, Bobby kisses a girl named Milicent (Melissa Sue Anderson) and he sees “sky rockets.” She then informs him that she may have the mumps and he "shouldn't have done that." Bobby and his family nervously await her telephone call with the doctor's results. Four years later, the two reunited on an episode of Little House on the Prairie, on which Anderson played Mary Ingalls, and Lookinland guest starred. Melissa Sue Anderson was also raised in the LDS (Mormon) church.
Mike Lookinland on "Little House on the Prairie", 1977.
Mike also provided the voice of Oblio in the animated film The Point!. Shortly after the final season of The Brady Bunch wrapped filming, he appeared alongside Jennifer Jones and Paul Newman in the 1974 disaster film blockbuster The Towering Inferno and on the 1970s TV show The Secrets of Isis.
Mike reprised his role as Bobby Brady in the 1988 Christmas special A Very Brady Christmas, and again in the 1990 sequel series The Bradys, in which Bobby Brady was involved in a racing car accident, which made him a wheelchair user throughout the series. Interestingly, the first two names of the Brady father character played by Robert Reed was "Michael Paul", the same as Lookinland's actual names, also, Mike Lookinland's character was named Bobby (a short form of Robert), the same as Robert Reed's actual name.
Personal life
Since 1987, MIke has been married to Kelly Wermuth, who worked as a script supervisor on Touched by an Angel. They have two sons: Scott (born 1990) and Joe (born 1993). He was portrayed by his son Scott in the TV movie Growing Up Brady. Years after leaving 'The Brady Bunch, Lookinland cut off the end of his index finger with a table saw. The end was deemed too small to be sewn back on, but it has never affected his career.
References
- ↑ Mike Lookinland Biography (1960-)
- ↑ Template:IMDb title
External links
- Template:IMDb name
- Mike Lookinland's Arrest at rotten.com
- Mike Lookinland at thesmokinggun.com