Robert Cummings
Age: 80 | From: Joplin, Missouri, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1910-06-10 06:13:08
Death: 1990-12-02 06:13:08
Aliases: Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings , Bob Cummings , Blade Stanhope Conway , Bruce Hutchens
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Joplin, Missouri, USA
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Movie Involvements: 41
TV Involvements: 14
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Robert Montgomery Presents
(1950) Sawyer
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
(1956) Self
The Twilight Zone
(1959) James Embry
The Bob Hope Show
(1950) Self
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Lt. Charles Gatewood
Studio One
(1948) George Lumley
The Elgin Hour
(1954) Jeff Clark
My Hero
(1952) Robert BeanblossomActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Self | |
| 1978 | Cab Driver | |
| 1977 | Eliott Smith | |
| 1973 | Ralph Elsworth | |
| Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings) | ||
| 1970 | N/A | |
| 1969 | Russell Lawrence | |
| N/A | ||
| 1968 | Robert Henning | |
| Bob Collins | ||
| 1967 | Bob Mitchell | |
| 1966 | Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings) | |
| Dr. Philip Brock | ||
| 1965 | N/A | |
| 1964 | Dr. Victor Stephanson | |
| N/A | ||
| Dan Pierce | ||
| Self - Host | ||
| 1963 | Harvey Hines | |
| Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse | ||
| Professor Sutwell | ||
| 1962 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Bob Moore | ||
| 1961 | N/A | |
| 1960 | Himself | |
| Self | ||
| 1959 | James Embry | |
| Self | ||
| 1958 | Colonel Culver | |
| 1957 | Robert Cummings | |
| Self | ||
| 1956 | Self | |
| Lt. Charles Gatewood | ||
| Self - Love That Bob | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| 1955 | Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood | |
| N/A | ||
| Bob Collins | ||
| 1954 | Self | |
| Self - Host / Narrator / Interviewer | ||
| Self - Host / Narrator / Self | ||
| Jeff Clark | ||
| Juror #8 | ||
| Mark Halliday | ||
| Dick Carson | ||
| 1953 | Bill | |
| Russ Baker | ||
| 1952 | Robert Beanblossom | |
| Joe Bennett | ||
| 1951 | Sylvanus Hurley | |
| N/A | ||
| Spencer O. Spencer | ||
| 1950 | Jeff Bolton | |
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Bill Prentice | ||
| Self - Mystery Guest | ||
| Self - Panelist | ||
| N/A | ||
| Sawyer | ||
| 1949 | Pete Webb | |
| Christopher Parker | ||
| Charles D'Aubigny | ||
| Warren Ford | ||
| 1948 | Duke Crawford | |
| Juror #8 | ||
| George Lumley | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Bruce Elcott | ||
| 1947 | Lewis Venable | |
| Michael, aka Mike | ||
| 1946 | Chuck Scott | |
| Jeff Warren | ||
| 1945 | Maj. Bob Collins | |
| 1943 | Michael (segment 1) | |
| Eddie O'Rourke | ||
| Ned | ||
| 1942 | Self | |
| Jimmy Blake | ||
| Barry Kane | ||
| Parris Mitchell | ||
| 1941 | Johnny Reynolds Jr. | |
| Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II | ||
| Joe O'Brien | ||
| Max Clemington | ||
| 1940 | Steve Harper | |
| Corporal Harry Marten | ||
| Jimmy Nolan | ||
| Ridley Crane | ||
| 1939 | Scotty Hamilton | |
| Ken Morgan | ||
| Bill Gregory | ||
| Dennis Lane | ||
| Harry Loren | ||
| 1938 | Frederick A. Davis | |
| Alan Sanford | ||
| Cadet Jimmy Howal | ||
| Jim | ||
| Radio Announcer | ||
| 1937 | Dan Trimball, prospector | |
| Curley Griffin | ||
| George Martin | ||
| Juan Ramos | ||
| 1936 | Phillip Randall | |
| Mike Winslow | ||
| Jimmy Ellis | ||
| Jay Wallace | ||
| Lt. Bob Dixon | ||
| Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer | ||
| 1935 | George Pendleton | |
| Jim Preston | ||
| 1933 | Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited) | |
| The Beau/Husband in 'Sunny Weather' Number (uncredited) | ||
| 1916 | Friar Lawrence | |
| Himself | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Sound
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Songs | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| Screenplay | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
