Robert Cummings
Biography
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.
Acting (78 movies)
Dial M for Murder
1954
Sophie Lang Goes West
1937
Three on a Date
1978
What a Way to Go!
1964
Saboteur
1942
Princess O'Rourke
1943
It Started with Eve
1941
Beach Party
1963
Lucky Me
1954
Reign of Terror
1949
Rio
1939
Romeo and Juliet
1916
The Chase
1946
One Night in the Tropics
1940
The Accused
1949
The Carpetbaggers
1964
My Geisha
1962
Souls at Sea
1937
Moon Over Miami
1941
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939
Paid in Full
1950
Stagecoach
1966
The Lost Moment
1947
Kings Row
1942
Sleep, My Love
1948
Five Golden Dragons
1967
Promise Her Anything
1966
Heaven Only Knows
1947
For Heaven's Sake
1950
The Texans
1938
The Accusing Finger
1936
Wells Fargo
1937
The Petty Girl
1950
Everything Happens at Night
1939
College Swing
1938
Flesh and Fantasy
1943
You and Me
1938
And One Was Beautiful
1940
Desert Gold
1936
The Bride Wore Boots
1946
Gidget Grows Up
1969
The First Time
1952
Spring Parade
1940
Tell It to the Judge
1949
The Last Train from Madrid
1937
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939
So Red the Rose
1935
You Came Along
1945
Bomber's Moon
1958
The Barefoot Mailman
1951
Let's Live a Little
1948
I Stand Accused
1938
Free For All
1949
The Great American Beauty Contest
1973
Holiday Time at Disneyland
1962
Sons of the Desert
1933
The Under-Pup
1939
Arizona Mahoney
1936
How To Be Very, Very Popular
1955
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1960
Free and Easy
1941
Twelve Angry Men
1954
Between Us Girls
1942
Forever and a Day
1943
Marry Me Again
1953
Border Flight
1936
The Virginia Judge
1935
Hideaway Girl
1936
Gala Day at Disneyland
1960
Disneyland's Opening Day Broadcast
1955
Private Affairs
1940
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
1990
Disneyland '59
1959
Partners in Crime
1973
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
Forgotten Faces
1936
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