Robert Cummings
Acting
Effective light comedian of '30s and '40s films and '50s and '60s TV series, Robert Cummings was renowned for his eternally youthful looks (which he attributed to a strict vitamin and health-food diet). He was educated at Carnegie Tech and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Deciding that Broadway producers would be more interested in an upper-crust Englishman than a kid from Joplin, Missouri, Cummings passed himself off as Blade Stanhope Conway, British actor. The ploy was successful. Cummings decided that if it worked on Broadway, it would work in Hollywood, so he journeyed west and assumed the identity of a rich Texan named Bruce Hutchens. The plan worked once more, and he began securing small parts in films. He soon reverted to his real name and became a popular leading man in light comedies, usually playing well-meaning, pleasant but somewhat bumbling young men. He achieved much more success, however, in his own television series in the '50s, The Bob Cummings Show (1955) and My Living Doll (1964).
Cummings was born June 10, 1910, in Joplin, Missouri, and he died of kidney failure December 2, 1990, in Woodland Hills, California. He is interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Sanctity.
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Filmography of
Robert Cummings
... 1990
Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
... 1973
Russell Lawrence
... 1969
Bob Mitchell
... 1967
Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
... 1966
Dr. Philip Brock (as Bob Cummings)
... 1966
... 1965
Victor Stephanson
... 1964
Dan Pierce
... 1964
Prof. Robert 'Bob' Orwell Sutwell
... 1963
... 1963
Bob Moore
... 1962
Himself
... 1960
Colonel Culver
... 1958
Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood
... 1955
... 1955
Juror #8
... 1954
Mark Halliday
... 1954
Dick Carson
... 1954
Bill
... 1953
Joe Bennett
... 1952
Sylvanus Hurley
... 1951
Jeff Bolton
... 1950
George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp
... 1950
Bill Prentice
... 1950
Pete Webb
... 1949
Christopher Parker
... 1949
Charles D'Aubigny
... 1949
Warren Ford
... 1949
Duke Crawford
... 1948
Bruce Elcott
... 1948
Lewis Venable
... 1947
Michael, aka Mike
... 1947
Chuck Scott
... 1946
Jeff Warren
... 1946
Maj. Bob Collins
... 1945
Michael (segment 1)
... 1943
Eddie O'Rourke
... 1943
... 1943
Jimmy Blake
... 1942
Barry Kane
... 1942
Parris Mitchell
... 1942
Himself (uncredited)
... 1942
Jonathan 'Johnny' Reynolds Jr.
... 1941
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II
... 1941
Joe O'Brien
... 1941
Max Clemington
... 1941
Steve Harper
... 1940
Corporal Harry Marten
... 1940
Jimmy Nolan
... 1940
Ridley Crane
... 1940
Bill Gregory
... 1939
Scotty Hamilton
... 1939
Ken Morgan
... 1939
Dennis Lane
... 1939
Harry Loren
... 1939
Alan Sanford
... 1938
Cadet Jimmy Howal
... 1938
Jim
... 1938
Radio Announcer
... 1938
Dan Trimball, prospector
... 1937
George Martin
... 1937
Juan Ramos
... 1937
Phillip Randall
... 1936
Mike Winslow
... 1936
Jimmy Ellis
... 1936
Jay Wallace
... 1936
Lt. Bob Dixon
... 1936
Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer
... 1936
George Pendleton
... 1935
Jim Preston
... 1935
Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
... 1933
The Beau/Husband in 'Sunny Weather' Number (uncredited)
... 1933