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* Bill Mumy of ''[[Lost in Space]]''. His parents took care that he grew up properly during his career as a child, including carefully investing his pay, and he became a successful musician (his comedy pop band Barnes & Barnes is responsible for that "Fish Heads" song) and a reasonably busy actor who even got another juicy sci-fi TV role as Lennier in ''[[Babylon 5]]''.
** His daughter Liliana is also making it well as a cartoon voice actress (most notably as the voice of Panini in ''[[Chowder]]''), and even played alongside her dad in the sequel to "It's a Good Life", "It's Still a Good Life", on the second revival of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''.
* [[Dean Stockwell]] avertsaverted this big time, starting as a child star in the 1940s, and continuing to work steadily for the next '''sixty-fiveseventy''' years, being best known as Al on ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' and Cavil on the rebootedremake of ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]''. He finally retired in 2015 - not by choice, but because he had a stroke.
* The child cast of ''[[The Wonder Years]]'' have all managed to do well as adults: Fred Savage is a director and producer along with occasional acting, Danica McKellar is an author and mathematician when not acting, and Josh Saviano (Paul) is an attorney.
** Although Saviano has been the subject of the famous myth that he became Marilyn Manson when he grew up which he has found very amusing