Robert Cummings
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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
Credits
Dial M for Murder (1954)
as Mark Halliday
Stagecoach (1966)
as Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
Beach Party (1963)
as Professor Sutwell
Disneyland Handcrafted (2026)
as Self (archive footage)
Saboteur (1942)
as Barry Kane
My Geisha (1962)
as Bob Moore
The Accused (1949)
as Warren Ford
Sons of the Desert (1933)
as Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
Forever and a Day (1943)
as Ned
You and Me (1938)
as Jim
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration (1990)
as Self
What a Way to Go! (1964)
as Dr. Victor Stephanson
The Carpetbaggers (1964)
as Dan Pierce
Kings Row (1942)
as Parris Mitchell
Rio (1939)
as Bill Gregory
Sleep, My Love (1948)
as Bruce Elcott
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
The Great American Beauty Contest (1973)
as Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
as Steve Harper
Twelve Angry Men (1954)
as Juror #8
Lucky Me (1954)
as Dick Carson
So Red the Rose (1935)
as George Pendleton
Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
as Michael (segment 1)
Reign of Terror (1949)
as Charles D'Aubigny
The Chase (1946)
as Chuck Scott
Souls at Sea (1937)
as George Martin
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood (1960)
as Self
Hideaway Girl (1936)
as Mike Winslow
It Started with Eve (1941)
as Johnny Reynolds Jr.
Promise Her Anything (1966)
as Dr. Philip Brock
College Swing (1938)
as Radio Announcer
Five Golden Dragons (1967)
as Bob Mitchell
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
as Joe O'Brien
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
as Eddie O'Rourke
The Lost Moment (1947)
as Lewis Venable
Disneyland '59 (1959)
as Self
Wells Fargo (1937)
as Dan Trimball, prospector
Touchdown, Army (1938)
as Cadet Jimmy Howal
Forgotten Faces (1936)
as Clinton Faraday
The Last Train from Madrid (1937)
as Juan Ramos
Paid in Full (1950)
as Bill Prentice
The Barefoot Mailman (1951)
as Sylvanus Hurley
You Came Along (1945)
as Maj. Bob Collins
Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
as Harry Loren
The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
as Jeff Warren
The Texans (1938)
as Alan Sanford
Partners in Crime (1973)
as Ralph Elsworth
Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
as Jay Wallace
Three on a Date (1978)
as Cab Driver
Sophie Lang Goes West (1937)
as Curley Griffin
Let's Live a Little (1948)
as Duke Crawford
Free For All (1949)
as Christopher Parker
For Heaven's Sake (1950)
as Jeff Bolton
Heaven Only Knows (1947)
as Michael, aka Mike
And One Was Beautiful (1940)
as Ridley Crane
Millions in the Air (1935)
as Jimmy
Gidget Grows Up (1969)
as Russell Lawrence
The Petty Girl (1950)
as George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp
Bomber's Moon (1958)
as Colonel Culver
Desert Gold (1936)
as Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer
How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)
as Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood
The Under-Pup (1939)
as Dennis Lane
Tell It to the Judge (1949)
as Pete Webb
Private Affairs (1940)
as Jimmy Nolan
Free and Easy (1941)
as Max Clemington
Romeo and Juliet (1916)
as Friar Lawrence
Moon Over Miami (1941)
as Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II
The Accusing Finger (1936)
as Jimmy Ellis
Everything Happens at Night (1939)
as Ken Morgan
Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
as Scotty Hamilton
I Stand Accused (1938)
as Frederick A. Davis
The First Time (1952)
as Joe Bennett
Spring Parade (1940)
as Corporal Harry Marten
Arizona Mahoney (1936)
as Phillip Randall
Marry Me Again (1953)
as Bill
Between Us Girls (1942)
as Jimmy Blake
The Virginia Judge (1935)
as Jim Preston
Border Flight (1936)
as Lt. Bob Dixon
Seasoned Greetings (1933)
as Husband (uncredited)
Gala Day at Disneyland (1960)
as Self
Disneyland's Opening Day Broadcast (1955)
Actor
Holiday Time at Disneyland (1962)
as Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, no. 3) (1943)
as Himself