Cast
Robert Cummings
Acting
Cast
Robert Cummings
Known for
Acting
Born
1910-06-09
From
Joplin, Missouri, USA
Died
1990-12-02
Also known as Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings, Bob Cummings, Blade Stanhope Conway
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.
Dial M for Murder
as Mark Halliday
Saboteur
as Barry Kane
Arizona Mahoney
as Phillip Randall
The Carpetbaggers
as Dan Pierce
Stagecoach
as Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
Hollywood Boulevard
as Jay Wallace
Wells Fargo
as Dan Trimball, prospector
Sons of the Desert
as Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
What a Way to Go!
as Dr. Victor Stephanson
Beach Party
as Professor Sutwell
Touchdown, Army
as Cadet Jimmy Howal
You and Me
as Jim
Princess O'Rourke
as Eddie O'Rourke
Forgotten Faces
as Clinton Faraday
Reign of Terror
as Charles D'Aubigny
Private Affairs
as Jimmy Nolan
The Accused
as Warren Ford
The Devil and Miss Jones
as Joe O'Brien
Disneyland Handcrafted
as Self (archive footage)
Five Golden Dragons
as Bob Mitchell
Rio
as Bill Gregory
The Last Train from Madrid
as Juan Ramos
Sleep, My Love
as Bruce Elcott
Flesh and Fantasy
as Michael (segment 1)
Lucky Me
as Dick Carson
One Night in the Tropics
as Steve Harper
My Geisha
as Bob Moore
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
as Harry Loren
Kings Row
as Parris Mitchell
Forever and a Day
as Ned
Let's Live a Little
as Duke Crawford
It Started with Eve
as Johnny Reynolds Jr.
The Great American Beauty Contest
as Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
So Red the Rose
as George Pendleton
Twelve Angry Men
as Juror #8
For Heaven's Sake
as Jeff Bolton
Spring Parade
as Corporal Harry Marten
The Chase
as Chuck Scott
How to Be Very, Very Popular
as Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood
Millions in the Air
as Jimmy
Hideaway Girl
as Mike Winslow
The Bride Wore Boots
as Jeff Warren
Three on a Date
as Cab Driver
The Accusing Finger
as Jimmy Ellis
Promise Her Anything
as Dr. Philip Brock
The Texans
as Alan Sanford
You Came Along
as Maj. Bob Collins
College Swing
as Radio Announcer
The Under-Pup
as Dennis Lane
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
Disneyland '59
as Self
And One Was Beautiful
as Ridley Crane
Everything Happens at Night
as Ken Morgan
Paid in Full
as Bill Prentice
Partners in Crime
as Ralph Elsworth
The Lost Moment
as Lewis Venable
The Barefoot Mailman
as Sylvanus Hurley
Heaven Only Knows
as Michael, aka Mike
Souls at Sea
as George Martin
Gidget Grows Up
as Russell Lawrence
Seasoned Greetings
as Husband (uncredited)
Romeo and Juliet
as Friar Lawrence
Free and Easy
as Max Clemington
Marry Me Again
as Bill
Disneyland's Opening Day Broadcast
Moon Over Miami
as Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II
Desert Gold
as Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer
The Petty Girl
as George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp
Bomber's Moon
as Colonel Culver
The Virginia Judge
as Jim Preston
Tell It to the Judge
as Pete Webb
I Stand Accused
as Frederick A. Davis
Border Flight
as Lt. Bob Dixon
Free For All
as Christopher Parker
The First Time
as Joe Bennett
Between Us Girls
as Jimmy Blake
Gala Day at Disneyland
as Self
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
as Scotty Hamilton
Sophie Lang Goes West
as Curley Griffin
Holiday Time at Disneyland
as Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, no. 3)
as Himself