Robert Cummings
Acting
🎂 1910-06-09
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.
Cast credits(126)
1950
Sawyer
1950
1950
Bob Collins
1968
Robert Henning
1968
Self - Co-Host
1961
Self
1950
Self - Panelist
1950
1969
Grandpa
1969
1950
Self
1962
Self - Co-Host
1944
Self
1950
Self
1957
Self
1950
Self - Guest
1956
Self - Love That Bob
1956
Juror #8
1948
George Lumley
1948
Bob Collins
1955
James Embry
1959
Lt. Charles Gatewood
1956
Eliott Smith
1977
Harvey Hines
1963
Robert Silbey
1963
1964
Self
1956
Self - Host
1964
1961
1970
Mort Warner
1965
Jeff Clark
1954
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse
1963
Robert Beanblossom
1952
Self - Host / Narrator / Interviewer
1954
Self - Host / Narrator / Self
1954
Self
1954
Robert Cummings
1957
Wally
1950
Russ Baker
1953
1951
Spencer O. Spencer
1951
Dan Trimball, prospector
1937
Mark Halliday
1954
Barry Kane
1942
Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
1966
Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
1933
Joe O'Brien
1941
George Martin
1937
Dr. Robert McDonald
1964
Chuck Scott
1946
Dr. Victor Stephanson
1964
Professor Sutwell
1963
Ned
1943
Parris Mitchell
1942
Bruce Elcott
1948
Charles D'Aubigny
1949
Jimmy Ellis
1936
Johnny Reynolds Jr.
1941
Dan Pierce
1964
Jim
1938
Corporal Harry Marten
1940
Michael (segment 1)
1943
Juror #8
1954
Bob Moore
1962
Russell Lawrence
1969
Ralph Elsworth
1973
Ken Morgan
1939
Bill Gregory
1939
Dr. Philip Brock
1966
Maj. Bob Collins
1945
Steve Harper
1940
Warren Ford
1949
Joe Bennett
1952
Pete Webb
1949
Self
1990
Dennis Lane
1939
Self
1959
Bill
1953
Friar Lawrence
1916
Ridley Crane
1940
George Pendleton
1935
Dick Carson
1954
Jay Wallace
1936
Eddie O'Rourke
1943
Jimmy
1935
Sylvanus Hurley
1951
Jimmy Nolan
1940
Juan Ramos
1937
Bill Prentice
1950
Cab Driver
1978
Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood
1955
Harry Loren
1939
Frederick A. Davis
1938
Jeff Warren
1946
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II
1941
George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp
1950
Alan Sanford
1938
Bob Mitchell
1967
Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
1973
Scotty Hamilton
1939
Radio Announcer
1938
Christopher Parker
1949
Mike Winslow
1936
Duke Crawford
1948
Jimmy Blake
1942
Lewis Venable
1947
Self
1942
Phillip Randall
1936
Michael, aka Mike
1947
Self
1960
Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer
1936
Jeff Bolton
1950
Self
1960
Max Clemington
1941
1955
Colonel Culver
1958
Cadet Jimmy Howal
1938
Self
1962
Clinton Faraday
1936
Curley Griffin
1937
Husband (uncredited)
1933
Lt. Bob Dixon
1936
Jim Preston
1935
Himself
1943
