Mike Lookinland

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Mike Lookinland
Born	December 19, 1960 Mount Pleasant, Utah

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

Lookinland was a TV commercial actor prior to being cast in The Brady Bunch, having done around thirty commercials. The actor has natural sandy colored hair, which had to be died black, so as not to confuse the fair-haired/ dark-haired scenario of the Brady step siblings. During the show's run, he 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 The Towering Inferno. He recently worked as a cameraman for the WB network, and is married with two teenaged sons. His wife Kelly worked as a script supervisor on, Touched By An Angel. Lookinland is a self-professed conservationist and "camping nut".

Susan Olsen admits to having an infatuation with him during the making of the show. The Olsens had sleepover weekends at her house, and Mike would stay and play with her huge family of animals.

Lookinland grew up as a Mormon. He was arrested in 1997 with a DWI after crashing his Ford Bronco. He has been sober since.^{[citation needed]} Coincidentally, in the 1990 sequel series "The Bradys", Bobby Brady had a racing car accident which caused him to be wheel-chair bound throughout the series. Prior to the 1990's series "The Brady's", Lookinland reprised his role as Bobby Brady in the 1988 Christmas special "A Very Brady Christmas" where Bobby famously announces at Christmas dinner to Mike and Carol, "Mom, Dad, I've dropped out of graduate school to become a racecar driver."