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很少有人能共情比尔·穆米的童年。20世纪60年代，他是好莱坞最忙碌的童星之一。“我是第一个得到碧姬·芭铎亲吻的美国演员！”他说，这都要归功于他在1965年电影《亲爱的碧姬》中的主角角色。
他的演艺生涯始于6岁时的一场意外：“有一天我穿着佐罗套装从床上跳下来，左腿摔断了，几乎劈成两半，”他回忆道。“但这是我的幸运转折点！当时我打着石膏坐在那儿看《佐罗》和《超人》，我满怀热忱地对父母说：‘那就是我想做的事。我想出现在电视里。’”
他的父亲是加州的牧场主，母亲则在二十世纪福克斯公司担任秘书，她一丝不苟地记录着儿子的演艺工作。“她记录了我的所有演出工作，”穆米说，还给我们看了她1961年5月的笔记：“出演了一集《迷离时空》，名叫《美好生活》。比利表现得非常棒。报酬600美元。”
比尔·穆米在《迷离时空》剧集《美好生活》中饰演一名怪物，在剧中他将人们“送”进了玉米地。
穆米总共出演了三集《迷离时空》，合作过吉米·斯图尔特、露西尔·鲍尔等电影明星，这些都发生在他10岁之前。他从克萝丽丝·利奇曼身上学到了如何专业地对待工作，而阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克则教会了他不该怎么做——希区柯克在执导他参演的《阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克剧场》剧集《砰！你死定了》时，对片场里坐立不安的7岁男孩十分严苛。“他原话是这么说的：‘如果你再不停乱动，我就拿颗钉子，把你的脚钉在站位标记上，血会像牛奶一样涌出来，’”穆米说道。
但这些都只是序幕，因为1965年，穆米火了——以“可动人偶”的方式火了——他在《迷失太空》中饰演被困太空的瑞士太空家庭中最年轻的成员威尔·罗宾逊，剧集一共播出了三季。
该剧巅峰时期，每周有超过2500万观众收看穆米和他的搭档——一台名为B-9的机器人的冒险故事。
60年后，当被问及站在好莱坞机器人设计师弗雷德·巴顿制作的B-9复制品旁是什么感觉时，穆米回答：“我觉得它看起来依然很棒。真希望我现在也穿着紫色丝绒套装和高领毛衣，跟它一起去拍戏！”
左图：比尔·穆米饰演的威尔·罗宾逊与B-9机器人同框，出自《迷失太空》。右图：穆米与机器人设计师弗雷德·巴顿和B-9复制品。危险！危险！CBS/CBS新闻
这台机器人会用电视史上最经久不衰的台词之一警告穆米有危险：“危险，威尔·罗宾逊！”——时至今日，陌生人见到他时仍会大喊这句台词。“我把这当成一种福气，”他说。“有多少人能拥有一样东西，让大家愿意对着自己喊出来？这很酷！”
1968年《迷失太空》停播时，穆米当然很伤心：“我哭了。我现在还能想起当时坐在家里书房的蓝色沙发上，把头埋进妈妈的腿里，她只是轻轻摸着我的头说：‘亲爱的，这就是演艺行业。’”
故事到这里才变得既有趣又极具启发性。当其他童星在聚光灯褪去后陷入困境时，穆米却避开了这些陷阱。
穆米说：“有很多童星的结局都很凄惨，当那部长播剧集结束后，他们不再被特殊对待，不得不重新认识自己是谁。”
但比尔·穆米早就清楚自己是谁。尽管他是20世纪60年代最多产的童星之一，但与他联系最紧密的始终是音乐。演戏是他做的事，而音乐才是真正的他。
“我不想贬低演戏带给我的乐趣，”他说。“我懂表演的技巧，每次演戏都得心应手。但哪怕不演戏，我也不会回家就对着空气演戏。我和妻子艾琳不会坐在客厅里演话剧。但我一直都在做的事，就是弹吉他、弹钢琴，一直都在做音乐。”
音乐人比尔·穆米。
自《迷失太空》停播以来的近60年里，穆米组建过自己的乐队（包括巴恩斯与巴恩斯二人组）、随“美国”乐队等团体巡演，还曾因《仙境冒险》获得艾美奖提名。
如今72岁的穆米依然会演戏，也做大量配音工作。但真正支撑他的是音乐（他刚发行了新专辑《意志力》），而让他保持脚踏实地的最重要因素则另有其人。“是我的家人，”他说。“这才是真正的好东西。这才是A角！”
与穆米家人一起玩音乐。
比尔·穆米拥有许多年少成名的艺人终其一生都未能获得的东西：他明白，真正重要的掌声，来自于作为丈夫、父亲和祖父的表现。对于这位在好莱坞待了66年多的老面孔来说，这些才是值得追求的唯一角色：“从长远来看，我宁愿做自己，和妻子、儿子、女儿还有孙辈们拥有美好的关系，也不想拥有更多白金唱片，然后经历两次离婚，支付赡养费，过得不开心，”他说。
“那么，回顾整个人生，你会说‘我过得很好’吗？”我问道。
“哦，当然！我回顾整个人生，会说‘我过得非常好！’”穆米笑着说。
网络独家内容：观看比尔·穆米加长版采访（视频）https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extended-interview-bill-mumy/
加长版采访：比尔·穆米 时长15:19
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更多信息：
billmumy.com
比尔·穆米作品目录
GRA集团收录的比尔·穆米录音作品
the-robotman.com
《迷离时空》剧集《美好生活》可在Paramount+平台点播
本报道由杰伊·克内里斯制作。编辑：杰森·施密特。
“It’s a Good Life” for actor Bill Mumy
June 14, 2026 / 9:44 AM EDT / CBS News
There aren’t a whole lot of people who can relate to Bill Mumy’s childhood. In the 1960s, he was among the busiest child actors in Hollywood. “I was the first American actor to get a kiss from Brigitte Bardot!” he said, thanks to his starring role in 1965’s “Dear Brigitte.”
It was a career born of roughhousing at the age of six: “So, one day I’m in my Zorro outfit and I’m jumping off of the bed, and I cracked my left leg, like in half,” he said. “But, it was my lucky break! So, I was sitting there in a cast watching ‘Zorro’ and ‘Superman,’ and I very passionately said to my parents, ‘That is what I want to do. I want to be inside the television.’”
He was the son of a California cattle rancher, and a secretary at 20th Century Fox, who kept meticulous track of her son’s work. “She kept a record of my gigs,” Mumy said, showing us her notes from May of 1961: “Did a ‘Twilight Zone’ called ‘It’s a Good Life.’ Billy did a wonderful job. $600.”
Bill Mumy played a monster in the “Twilight Zone” episode “It’s a Good Life,” in which he wished people into the cornfield. CBS
Mumy did three episodes of “The Twilight Zone” on TV, and worked with movie stars like Jimmy Stewart and Lucille Ball, all before he was ten. He learned how to behave from Cloris Leachman, and how not to behave from Alfred Hitchcock (who directed him in an episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” called “Bang! You’re Dead”), who was mean to a fidgety seven-year-old on set. “And this is exactly what he said: ‘If you don’t stop moving about, I’m going to get a nail, and I’m going to nail your feet to your mark, and the blood will come pouring out like milk,’” said Mumy.
But all of that was prologue, because in 1965, Mumy got famous – “action figure” famous – starring as Will Robinson, the youngest member of a marooned space-age Swiss Family Robinson, for three seasons of “Lost in Space.”
At its peak, more than 25 million viewers a week watched the adventures Mumy shared with his sidekick, a robot named B-9.
Sixty years later, asked what it’s like to stand next to a B-9 replica built by Hollywood robot builder Fred Barton, Mumy replied, “I think he still looks great. I wish I was in a purple velour and a turtleneck right now going to work with him!”
Left: Bill Mumy as Will Robinson with the robot B-9 in “Lost in Space.” Right: Mumy and robot builder Fred Barton with a replica of B-9. Danger! Danger! CBS/CBS News
The robot would warn Mumy of one threat or another, with one of TV’s most enduring catch-phrases: “Danger, Will Robinson!” – something random strangers still shout when seeing him. “I accepted it as a blessing,” he said. “How many people have something that people want to shout out at them, right? It’s cool!”
When “Lost in Space” ended in 1968, of course, Mumy was sad: “And I cried. I actually can remember sitting on the blue couch in our den, and putting my head in my mom’s lap and her just kind of petting my head going, ‘That’s showbiz, honey.’”
And this is where the story gets both really interesting and highly instructive. Mumy avoided the headlines other child stars could not when the bright lights fade.
Mumy said, “There are a lot of child stars who had sad endings, and when that one experience of a long-running television show was over, they weren’t treated special anymore, and they had to find out who they were.”
But Bill Mumy already knew who he was. Despite being one of the most prolific child actors of the 1960s, what he was connected to more than anything else was music. Acting is something he does. Music is who he is.
“I don’t want to diminish my enjoyment of acting,” he said. “I know the craft of acting and I’m comfortable whenever I do it. But if I’m not doing it, it’s not like I go home and act. It’s not like my wife Eileen and I sit around and do plays in the living room. But what I do do is, I play guitar and piano and music all the time.”
Musician Bill Mumy. CBS News
For the nearly 60 years since “Lost in Space” folded, Mumy has performed with his own bands (including the duo Barnes & Barnes); toured with groups like America; and been an Emmy-nominated songwriter (for “Adventures in Wonderland”).
At the age of 72, Mumy still acts and does plenty of voiceover work. But while it’s music that fuels him (he just released a new album, “Will Power”), it’s still not the most important ingredient in the recipe for staying grounded. “It’s my family,” he said. “This is the good stuff right here. This is the A-Roll!”
Jammin’ with the Mumy family. CBS News
Bill Mumy has captured something that’s eluded so many others touched by fame at an early age: an understanding that the only applause that matters is for how he does as husband, father and grandfather. To this Hollywood fixture for more than six-and-a-half decades, those were the only roles worth chasing: “In the big picture, I’d much rather be me and have a wonderful relationship with my wife and my son and my daughter and my grandchildren, than have more gold records and, you know, two divorces and alimony and unhappiness,” he said.
“So, you can look back on the whole picture of your life and say, I’m good?” I asked.
“Oh, yeah! I can look back on the whole picture of my life and say, I’m real good!” Mumy laughed.
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Extended interview: Bill Mumy 15:19
You can stream Bill Mumy’s album “Will Power” by clicking on the embed below (Free Spotify registration required to hear the tracks in full):
For more info:
billmumy.com
Bill Mumy Discography
Bill Mumy recordings at GRA Group
the-robotman.com
“The Twilight Zone” episode”It’s a Good Life”can be streamed on Paramount+
Story produced by Jay Kernis. Editor: Jason Schmidt.