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.
Known For
Acting
1954
asMark Halliday
1937
asCurley Griffin
1978
asCab Driver
1964
asDr. Victor Stephanson
1942
asBarry Kane
1943
asEddie O'Rourke
1941
asJohnny Reynolds Jr.
1963
asProfessor Sutwell
1954
asDick Carson
1939
asBill Gregory
1949
asCharles D'Aubigny
1916
asFriar Lawrence
1946
asChuck Scott
1940
asSteve Harper
1949
asWarren Ford
1964
asDan Pierce
1962
asBob Moore
1937
asGeorge Martin
1941
asJeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II
1941
asJoe O'Brien
1939
asHarry Loren
1950
asBill Prentice
1966
asHenry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
1947
asLewis Venable
1942
asParris Mitchell
1948
asBruce Elcott
1967
asBob Mitchell
1966
asDr. Philip Brock
1947
asMichael, aka Mike
1950
asJeff Bolton
1938
asAlan Sanford
1936
asJimmy Ellis
1937
asDan Trimball, prospector
1950
asGeorge Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp
1939
asKen Morgan
1938
asRadio Announcer
1943
asMichael (segment 1)
1938
asJim
1940
asRidley Crane
1936
asFordyce 'Ford' Mortimer
1946
asJeff Warren
1969
asRussell Lawrence
1952
asJoe Bennett
1940
asCorporal Harry Marten
1949
asPete Webb
1937
asJuan Ramos
1939
asScotty Hamilton
1935
asGeorge Pendleton
1945
asMaj. Bob Collins
1958
asColonel Culver
1951
asSylvanus Hurley
1948
asDuke Crawford
1938
asFrederick A. Davis
1949
asChristopher Parker
1973
asDan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
1962
asSelf
1933
asSteamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
1933
asHusband (uncredited)
1939
asDennis Lane
1936
asPhillip Randall
1955
asFillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood
1936
asJay Wallace
1960
asSelf
1938
asCadet Jimmy Howal
1941
asMax Clemington
1954
asJuror #8
1942
asJimmy Blake
1943
asNed
1953
asBill
1936
asLt. Bob Dixon
1935
asJim Preston
1936
asMike Winslow
1960
asSelf
1955
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1940
asJimmy Nolan
1990
asSelf
1959
asSelf
1943
asHimself
1973
asRalph Elsworth
1942
asSelf
1936
asClinton Faraday
1935
asJimmy
asDr. Benjamin Waterhouse
asBob Collins
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asRobert Cummings
asSelf
asJuror #8
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asRuss Baker
asJames Embry
asSelf - Host
asBob Collins
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asRobert Beanblossom
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asLt. Charles Gatewood
asSelf - Guest
asSelf
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asSelf - Host / Narrator / Interviewer
asSelf - Host / Narrator / Self
asSpencer O. Spencer
asSelf
asRobert Henning
asSawyer
asHarvey Hines
asGeorge Lumley
asJeff Clark
asDr. Robert McDonald
asWally
asSelf - Love That Bob
asEliott Smith
asSelf
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asSelf - Panelist
asSelf - Co-Host
asSelf - Co-Host
asGrandpa
asMort Warner
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