Mike Lookinland

Lookinland was born in Mount Pleasant, Utah, to parents Paul (principal at Steven White Junior High, Carson, California) and Karen.[2] He has two siblings: sister Theresa and brother, Todd,[2] who starred in The Blue Bird with Elizabeth Taylor. Lookinland, who grew up as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, began working as an actor at age 7, and by 9 had appeared in numerous television commercials for such products as toys, Cheerios cereal, and Band-Aid bandages.[2]

Lookinland's most famous role is as youngest son Bobby Brady on The Brady Bunch.

Lookinland 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 TV-siblings Peter's or Greg's natural dark brown color, his was dyed dark brown and straightened. Occasionally, the lights on set were so hot that his dye would run down his face.[3] During the last two seasons of The Brady Bunch, his natural hair color was allowed to show.

His brother, Todd Lookinland, appeared in a Brady Bunch episode that served as the pilot for a spin-off series, Kelly's Kids, about a husband and wife with three boys: one white, one black, and one Asian. The series was not bought.[4]

Lookinland provided the voice of Oblio in the 1971 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.

Lookinland 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. Lookinland spent several years as a television camera operator and made an uncredited appearance in the 2000 TV movie Growing Up Brady as a camera operator filming an episode of The Brady Bunch.[2] He also joined with the other Brady Bunch cast in the 2019 television series A Very Brady Renovation on HGTV.[5]

Having left show business, Lookinland operates a business (as of 2019) that makes decorative concrete in Salt Lake City, Utah.[5][6]

Lookinland graduated from Chadwick School, an independent school located in Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles, California.[7][8] He later attended the University of Utah but dropped out in order to pursue a career as a production assistant and camera operator.[2]

He wed on May 1, 1987 Kelly Wermuth (born 1962), an occasional actress. Together, they have two children, sons Scott Michael Lookinland (born July 6, 1990), who portrayed him in Growing Up Brady (2000), and Joseph Kelly "Joe" Lookinland (born August 6, 1993), both born in Utah.[9][2][10][1][11] The two worked together, with Lookinland as a production assistant and Wermuth as an extra on Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers.[12]

Lookinland is a self-described Deadhead, having attended more than 100 Grateful Dead concerts and shows.[13] In 1989, the California skate rock band Wonderful Broken Thing recorded their debut full-length album "Looking For Mike Lookinland"; several songs from this album were featured on the H-Street video "Hokus Pokus."[14]

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