June Lockhart Turns 100: ‘Lost in Space’ Costar Bill Mumy Shares Health Update on the TV Icon (Exclusive)
Earlier this month, Bill Mumy took a moment at the Hollywood Show to update us on his former onscreen mom June Lockhart, in advance of her centennial birthday. Lockhart, who turns 100 on June 25, 2025, enjoyed a career spanning nearly 90 years, and is one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Most know that Lockhart and Mumy starred in TV’s sci-fi classic Lost in Space (1965-68), which followed the Robinson family as they set out to find an alternate planet to inhabit as Earth’s overpopulation was nearing a crisis. Lockhart played the family’s matriarch and biochemist Maureen Robinson opposite Guy Williams‘ patriarch, Dr. John Robinson. At the time, she had traded in that gingham gown she donned for six seasons of Lassie for the cooler, form-fitting sparkly jumpsuit for Lost in Space.
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Mumy starred as the infamously nerdy Will Robinson (“Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!’), the youngest of the Robinson clan, which also included Judy Robinson (Marta Kristen) and Penny Robinson (Angela Cartwright).
We asked Mumy if he still was in contact with Lockhart, and he gave us an update on her health.
“I talk to her through her daughter. June is at home. She has two assistants. She’s still in her own home. She follows the politics, she reads the news, but she doesn’t talk on the phone and she doesn’t — obviously — she’s not going to put on all her makeup and go out and do a convention or anything anymore, but she’s, well, she’s fine. She’s healthy.”
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Mumy also gave us some behind the scenes on what cast members would do to celebrate birthdays on set back in the 1960s.
“Well, Angela and our birthdays were always celebrated on set with cakes and stuff because we were kids,” Mumy shares. “The rest of us, we knew people’s birthdays and throughout all of the decades sent birthday cards and calls and things like that. It’s always been and continues to be a real kind of unconventional family. Everybody got along really well.”
Mumy wishes Lockhart nothing but the best for her 100th. You can keep up with Bill Mumy as he’s very active on social media, answering fans, and sharing his latest music.
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