Robert Cummings
Birthday: 1910-06-10 | Place of Birth: Joplin, Missouri, USAEffective 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
Role
as Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
as Russell Lawrence
as Bob Mitchell
as Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
as Dan Pierce
as Dr. Victor Stephanson
as Professor Sutwell
as Bob Moore
as Bob Collins
as Dick Carson
as Mark Halliday
as Sylvanus Hurley
as Jeff Bolton
as Charles D'Aubigny
as Christopher Parker
as Pete Webb
as Warren Ford
as Bruce Elcott
as Duke Crawford
as Lewis Venable
as Chuck Scott
as Jeff Warren
as Maj. Bob Collins
as Eddie O'Rourke
as Michael (segment 1)
as Barry Kane
as Parris Mitchell
as Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II
as Johnny Reynolds Jr.
as Ridley Crane