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