What Happened to Our Favorite Child Stars From The ’50s, ’60s & ’70s

Character: James Anderson Jr. Appearance: Father Knows Best (1954) Estimated Net Worth: $1.5 million*

Billy Gray gained prominence as Jim Jr. (Bud) in the sitcom Father Knows Best. Additionally, he portrayed Jim Thorpe in Jim Thorpe—All-American and ventured into a film career, starring in the science fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Since the early 1950s, he has featured in films like On Moonlight Bay, Talk About a Stranger, All I Desire, The Outlaw Stallion, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, among others. At eighty-one, Gray is now a motorcycle collector in California.