17:25Classic TV · 1966The Brady Bunch Cast Then and Now
Episode: The Brady Bunch (1969): Cast Then & Now 2026 — Who’s Still Alive After 57 Years?
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About the Brady Bunch Cast Then and Now
The Brady Bunch cast then and now is the story of television's most famous blended family and the real people who brought it to life. Created by Sherwood Schwartz, the ABC series premiered on September 26, 1969, and ran for five seasons and 117 episodes, ending on March 8, 1974.
A widower with three boys marries a woman with three girls, and a housekeeper named Alice keeps the household running. In reruns, that idea reached generation after generation.
Fifty-seven years later, four of the people remembered in this episode have passed away. The rest have built lives that went well beyond the Brady house.
Who Were the Brady Parents and Alice?
Florence Henderson as Carol Brady
Florence Henderson was born on February 14, 1934, in Dale, Indiana, the youngest of ten children of a tobacco sharecropper. Long before Carol Brady, she was a Broadway star. She originated the title role in the musical Fanny in 1954, and in 1962 she became the first woman to guest host The Tonight Show.
She stayed close to her TV family all her life. Three days before her death, she was in the audience at Dancing with the Stars, cheering on Maureen McCormick, her TV daughter Marcia.
Florence Henderson died of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2016, surrounded by family and friends. She was 82.
Robert Reed as Mike Brady
Robert Reed was born John Robert Rietz Jr. on October 19, 1932, in Highland Park, Illinois. He studied drama at Northwestern University. Before the Bradys, he co-starred on The Defenders and took over from Robert Redford on Broadway in Barefoot in the Park.
A serious stage actor, he often clashed with Sherwood Schwartz over scripts he found silly. Even so, he became America's idea of a patient TV father. He later earned three Emmy nominations, including one for the 1977 miniseries Roots.
Reed was gay and kept his private life closely guarded in an era when that could end a career. In 1991 he was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. Weeks before his death, he asked Florence Henderson to tell the rest of the cast he was terminally ill. He died on May 12, 1992, at age 59. His doctor listed his HIV-positive status as a contributing condition.
Ann B. Davis as Alice Nelson
Ann B. Davis, born May 3, 1926, in Schenectady, New York, was already a star when she put on Alice's apron. She had won two Emmy Awards for The Bob Cummings Show and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
After the show, she chose a quieter path. In 1976 she sold her Los Angeles home and moved to Denver to join an Episcopal community led by Bishop William Frey. She later moved with the community to Pennsylvania, and then lived in San Antonio, Texas, with the Freys.
Ann B. Davis died on June 1, 2014, in San Antonio, after a fall at home caused a bleed on the brain. She was 88.
Where Are the Brady Kids Now?
Barry Williams as Greg Brady
Barry Williams, born on September 30, 1954, in Santa Monica, played Greg, the oldest brother. His 1992 memoir, Growing Up Brady, became a New York Times bestseller and gave fans a candid look behind the scenes.
In a 2024 interview marking the show's 55th anniversary, he said he had a teenage crush on Florence Henderson and recalled dating Maureen McCormick. He has performed on stage for years, appeared on Dancing with the Stars in 2023, and married Tina Mahina in 2017. He is 72.
Maureen McCormick as Marcia Brady
Maureen McCormick, born August 5, 1956, was about 13 when the show premiered. As Marcia, the popular oldest daughter, she became one of the most recognizable teenagers on television.
Life after the show was hard. She has spoken openly about years of addiction to cocaine and quaaludes, and about flubbing a 1981 audition for Steven Spielberg after three days without sleep. After marrying Michael Cummings in 1985, and with help from rehab, therapy and her friends from the cast, she began to recover. Her 2008 memoir, Here's the Story, reached the New York Times bestseller list.
She later competed on Dancing with the Stars in 2016 and became a Special Olympics global ambassador in 2020. She is 70.
Christopher Knight as Peter Brady
Christopher Knight, born November 7, 1957, in New York City, played Peter, the middle son. In 1988 he left acting for the computer industry. He co-founded Visual Software in 1991 and later started Eskape Labs, a TV tuner company that was sold in 2000.
He returned to television on VH1's The Surreal Life, where he met Adrianne Curry. They married in 2006 and later divorced. He married Cara Kokenes in 2016. He is 68.
Eve Plumb as Jan Brady
Eve Plumb, born April 29, 1958, in Burbank, was about eleven when she became Jan, the middle daughter.
She was the only original cast member who did not take part in the 1976–77 Brady Bunch Variety Hour, and the same year she played a teenage runaway in the TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. At eleven, she bought a Malibu beach bungalow for $55,000 and sold it in 2016 for $3.9 million.
Today she is a painter and has been married to Ken Pace since 1995. Her memoir, Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond, was published in 2026. She is 68.
Mike Lookinland as Bobby Brady
Mike Lookinland, born December 19, 1960, played Bobby, the youngest son. His natural sandy hair was dyed dark brown to match his TV brothers, and under hot studio lights the dye sometimes ran down his face.
He later worked behind the camera. On November 9, 1997, after leaving a film set in southern Utah, he rolled his Ford Bronco while driving under the influence. He was treated for minor injuries, completed court-ordered rehabilitation, and has said the accident led him to stop drinking. Today he runs a decorative concrete business in Salt Lake City. He is 65.
Susan Olsen as Cindy Brady
Susan Olsen, born August 14, 1961, in Santa Monica, was not yet eight when she was cast as Cindy, the youngest Brady with the famous pigtails.
In 2025, she shared a story fans had never heard. While filming the pilot, something fell from the lighting catwalk and struck her in the face, leaving her with two black eyes. The studio brought in Hal King, Lucille Ball's makeup artist, to cover the bruises. She is 65.
Who Else Shaped the Brady Bunch?
Sherwood Schwartz, Creator
Sherwood Schwartz was born on November 14, 1916, in Passaic, New Jersey. He hoped to become a doctor, but a quota limiting Jewish students kept him out of medical school. Instead, he wrote jokes for Bob Hope's radio show.
He created both Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, co-wrote the first show's theme song and wrote the second. He received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008 at age 91. He died in his sleep on July 12, 2011, at age 94. He had married his wife, Mildred, in 1941.
Robbie Rist as Cousin Oliver
Robbie Rist, born April 4, 1964, played Cousin Oliver in the last six episodes in 1974. Fans blamed the new character for the show's end, and the phrase "Cousin Oliver syndrome" came to describe adding a cute child to an aging series. In fact, ABC had already decided not to renew the show before his first episode aired.
He went on to voice Michelangelo in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films of the early 1990s, works as a drummer and musician, and helped create music for the Sharknado films. He is 62.
Why the Brady Bunch Still Feels Like Home
The Brady house was never a real family, but it gave millions of viewers a picture of patience, kindness and second chances. The real stories behind it are more complicated, and in many ways more moving.
The house in Studio City still draws visitors, and HGTV bought and restored it in 2018. The cast kept coming back to each other for reunions, renovations and goodbyes.
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