The Many Sides of Bill Mumy
Welcome to MumySpace the Official MySpace of Bill Mumy. This is your official news source for all things Bill Mumy and Mumy Music! Check here often for official news from Bill Mumy!
Bill's new album Glorious in Defeat is now available. Buy the album at CDbaby.com Bill is back with a power packed set of music. Glorious in Defeat picks up where Bill left off with Carnival Sky and brings us even deeper into the heart of the blues. A very emotional and powerful set of songs with a strong commentary on the world we are living. Tracks like "Can't Complain," "Dive" and "I Changed My Mind" are destined to become classics.
“The REAL GOOD RADIO HOUR with your host Bill Mumy” "The Real Good Radio Hour" with your host Bill Mumy will air every Wednesday and Friday at 7 PM both pacific and eastern time. We'll be listening to many different styles of music and learning about those who pioneered them. Click here to listen!! Bill Mumy Real Good Radio Hour archives
News Update: Two New Bill Mumy cds
"Carnival Sky" and "Speechless" -- Double your music enjoyment by checking out both new cds from GRA! Order from GRA
Attention Barnes and Barnes Fans! The first all-new cd from Barnes and Barnes in 18 years!! Opbopachop will be released later this month! Bill also produced Sarah Taylor's new CD "The Cure to Everything" - Sarah's (I've Got Presents For Santa with Bill Mumy) new CD "The Cure to Everything" is now available on Sarah's ebay store! Check it out! order Sarah Taylor cd Bill has been busy working with Claudia Christian (fellow B5er) scoring the music on a documentary she is producing! More information to come! Chrysler is using Bill's song With Big Ideas in a TV car commercial now airing! Bill's latest CD Circular is available now! To hear samples go to: Circular
Be sure to check the calendar for Bill Mumy appearances and updates. Bill got rave reviews on his last solo cd "The Landlord or the Guest." Check out his songs from the cd here, click on The Landlord or The Guest banner or go to www.billmumy.com for more information.
Bio: Bill Mumy is a multi-talented, prolific artist who entered the arena of professional entertainment at the age of five. He has worked on over four hundred television shows and is best known by fans around the world for the creation of his memorable role as the heroic boy astronaut "Will Robinson" on the long running classic series "Lost in Space." From 1993 through 1998 he played the noble, mystical "Lennier" in the popular science fiction series "Babylon 5." He has appeared in a 2006 episode of "Crossing Jordan" and the SciFi original film A.I. Assault. He appears as himself in the 2004 Miramax film;
"Comic Book: The Movie" and in 2003, Bill starred in "It's Still
A Good Life," the sequel to one of the three classic Twilight
Zone episode he starred in as a child, "It's A Good
Life."
Bill is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences and has been in eighteen feature films, including
"Dear Brigitte," "Rascal," "Bless the Beasts and
Children," and "Papillion."
Mumy is a prolific voice
over artist. Bill has narrated over 50 episodes of
A&E&‘s "Biography" series as
well as hosting and narrating several other documentaries and specials for
A & E, Animal Planet, The Sci Fi Channel and E
Entertainment. His voice over acting talents can be heard on
animated shows like "Ren and Stimpy," "Scooby Doo," "Batman: the Animated Series," "Steven Spielberg's
Animaniacs," "Little Wizard Adventures," "The Oz Kids"
and Disney’s "Buzz Lightyear: Star Command." He also
voices dozens of national commercials such as "Farmer's Insurance,"
"Ford," "Bud Ice," "Blockbuster," "Twix," and "MacDonald's."
With acclaimed writer Peter David, Bill co-created, produced and
wrote "Space Cases," a live action sci-fi adventure
comedy series on Nickelodeon and syndicated in over sixty all
around the world. The series ran for two seasons, 1996 -97, and was
nominated for a Cable Ace Award for best children's series.
He also co-wrote the theme song for that show as well as the themes for
the 2003 Animal Planet specials: "50 Greatest Animals of TV" and
"50 Greatest Animals of Films" and "TV Guide Looks At.," "Hollywood Backstory," and "Studio Portraits." Bill has written dozens of songs featured in the long running NBC soap opera "Santa Barbara." He also composed the scores to three episodes of the award winning PBS series, "The Universe and I" as well as contributing dozens of songs and themes to many different film and television projects. Bill was nominated for an Emmy
for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition
for the live-action Disney series "Adventures In Wonderland." Bill wrote and recorded one hundred and five songs for the one hundred episodes of that series.He was a producer and writer on the one hour syndicated special, "Lost In Space: Forever." Bill also returned to the role of "Will Robinson" on camera for that special as well as arranging and performing the end credit music for the show.
Bill is half of the infamous novelty rock recording and short film making duo "Barnes and Barnes." Best
known for the classic demented song and film "Fish Heads", Barnes and Barnes have released nine albums and a feature length videotape.
Rolling Stone magazine named Fish Heads 57 of the all time greatest rock
videos ever created. Their latest CD release is "Yeah: The
Essential Barnes & Barnes" (2000) on Oglio Records.
Bill has released seven solo CDs and the upcoming "Circular" will be released in July The Landlord or The Guest (2007),
With
Big Ideas (2006),
Ghosts
(2003), After
Dreams Come True (2001),
Pandora's
Box (2000),
In The Current
(1999) and and '97's
Dying To Be Heard. Bill's rock band
The Jenerators
have released three albums, "The
Jenerators," "Hitting the Silk," and "Pony Up." 1999 saw the release
of "The Be Five: Trying To Forget," another Renaissance CD written
and produced by Bill featuring vocals by actors from Babylon 5.
Bill's has also produced three albums for children, "Kiss My Boo
Boo" (Infinite Visons), “The Dinosaur Album” and “Yogi Bear
and Friends: This Land is Your Land”. (kid Rhino)He has worked
with the pop group "America" off and on for over twenty years,
composing, producing and performing with the band. As a songwriter Bill
has supplied songs to such varied artists as pop stars
America, David and Shaun Cassidy, to jazz artists like
Sea Wind and the legendary Rosemary Clooney.
Bill has collaborated with hit
songwriter and Broadway composer Paul Gordon for over 30 years on
many projects for television, stage and screen.
Comic books have
been a passion of Bills since childhood, and he has written scores of
them. He co-created "The Comet Man" and "The Dreamwalker" for Marvel as well as scripting
"The Hulk,","Spider-Man,"
"Iron Man," "She Hulk," "Wonder Man" and other Marvel characters. He
also wrote the "Lost in Space" comic book for Innovation in
the early 90's. His co-creation "Trypto, The Acid Dog" was
featured in "Dark Horse Presents". For DC comics he's
written "Aquaman," "The Spectre" and three issues of the
"classic" "Star Trek" series.
His short stories,
"The Black
'59" and "The Undeadliest Game" co-written with Peter David,
were originally printed in Pocket Books, "Shock Rock" and "Shock
Rock Volume 2". They're now published in many languages all over the
world. Mumy and David also wrote an episode of the acclaimed
animated series, "Roswell Conspiracies."Bill is currently
writing and developing several new projects for feature films and
television and has recently completed co-writing a fantasy novel with
Angela Cartwright.A short time ago TV Guide listed their top 100 television episodes of all time. Two of them starred Bill Mumy. Bill's only official fan club "The Bill Mumy Official Fan Club" is ran by Glennda Kountz and can be found at www.billmumyfanclub.com and here at myspace. If you are a fan and interested in joining the fan club check it out! This is the only fan site that has Bill's official endorsement. Don't be confused by other fan sites that try to imitate the Official Fan Site! http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=161802210.
Be sure to check out David and Scott Goudsward's new book "Shadows Over New England" on Dave's myspace or the banner above. Dave is Bill's official webmaster at www.billmumy.com and has several books published. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=338652665
