Mike Lookinland

Not to be confused with American soccer player Mike Lookingland.

Michael Paul "Mike" Lookinland (born December 19, 1960) is an American former actor. He is best known for his role as the youngest brother Bobby Brady on The Brady Bunch from 1969 until 1974.

Early life

Lookinland was born in 1960 in Mount Pleasant, Utah, a small town located eighty miles (128 km) south of Salt Lake City. He has a younger brother named Todd, who starred in The Blue Bird with Elizabeth Taylor, and an older sister Terese. Lookinland grew up in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 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.

Career

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 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 were so hot that his dye job would run down his face. During the last two seasons of The Brady Bunch, his natural hair color was finally allowed to show.

His brother Todd appeared in a Brady Bunch episode that served as the pilot for a spin-off series called Kelly's Kids about a husband and wife who adopt three boys, one white, one black, and one Asian. The pilot was not bought, however.

Lookinland also 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. He spent several years as a television camera operator, in fact, he made an uncredited appearance in the 2000 TV movie Growing Up Brady as Shorr, as the camera operator during the Brady Bunch episode "Room at the Top".

Having left show business, Lookinland operates a business that makes decorative concrete in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Personal life

Since 1987, Lookinland 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.

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