Robert Cummings
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
126
Gender
Male
Birthday
1910-06-09
Day of death
1990-12-02 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Joplin, Missouri, USA
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
The Mike Douglas Show
The Love Boat
Golden Globe Awards
Bewitched
Love, American Style
Love, American Style
The Bob Hope Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
Robert Montgomery Presents
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Twilight Zone
Studio One
Studio One
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
What's My Line?
What's My Line?
Here's Lucy
Here's Lucy
Green Acres
The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Your Show of Shows
The Hollywood Palace
Lux Video Theatre
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
The Great Adventure
The Bob Cummings Show
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
Souls at Sea
Marry Me Again
Arizona Mahoney
Moon Over Miami
The Accusing Finger
The Lost Moment
Beach Party
Gidget Grows Up
Disneyland '59
Arnie
Gala Day at Disneyland
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
What a Way to Go!
Seasoned Greetings
The Texans
The Accused
The Carpetbaggers
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, no. 3)
Kings Row
My Living Doll
Flesh and Fantasy
Twelve Angry Men
The Devil and Miss Jones
You Came Along
Heaven Only Knows
Dial M for Murder
Between Us Girls
Partners in Crime
Hollywood Boulevard
Border Flight
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
Holiday Time at Disneyland
College Swing
Forgotten Faces
Forever and a Day
How To Be Very, Very Popular
The Barefoot Mailman
Stagecoach
The First Time
Private Affairs
You and Me
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Great American Beauty Contest
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Wonderful World of Disney
My Geisha
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Lucky Me
Everything Happens at Night
The Under-Pup
Millions in the Air
Sophie Lang Goes West
Promise Her Anything
Wells Fargo
Touchdown, Army
Let's Live a Little
Rio
Princess O'Rourke
Tell It to the Judge
General Electric Theater
Sleep, My Love
Desert Gold
Breakdowns of 1942
Paid in Full
Free and Easy
The Last Train from Madrid
The New Bob Cummings Show
It Started with Eve
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
And One Was Beautiful
My Hero
The Elgin Hour
So Red the Rose
For Heaven's Sake
Saboteur
Spring Parade
Free For All
Disneyland's Opening Day Broadcast
Romeo and Juliet
Hideaway Girl
Reign of Terror
Sons of the Desert
The Petty Girl
The Bride Wore Boots
Five Golden Dragons
The Chase
Bomber's Moon
One Night in the Tropics
I Stand Accused
The Virginia Judge
Three on a Date
