Robert Cummings
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
ActingBirthday
June 9, 1910Deathday
December 2, 1990Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
82Place of birth
Joplin, Missouri, USAAlso known as
Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings, Bob Cummings, Blade Stanhope Conway, Bruce Hutchens, Роберт Каммингс, Bryce HutchensCast credits
Dial M for Murder
Mark HallidayWhat a Way to Go!
Dr. Victor StephansonSaboteur
Barry KanePrincess O'Rourke
Eddie O'RourkeIt Started with Eve
Johnny Reynolds Jr.Beach Party
Professor SutwellLucky Me
Dick CarsonRio
Bill GregoryReign of Terror
Charles D'AubignyThe Chase
Chuck ScottOne Night in the Tropics
Steve HarperThe Accused
Warren FordThe Carpetbaggers
Dan PierceMy Geisha
Bob MooreSouls at Sea
George MartinMoon Over Miami
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton IIThe Devil and Miss Jones
Joe O'BrienThree Smart Girls Grow Up
Harry LorenPaid in Full
Bill PrenticeStagecoach
Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)The Lost Moment
Lewis Venable