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.
★8.0
MOVIE1954
Dial M for Murder
as Mark Halliday
★7.5
MOVIE1938
Touchdown, Army
as Cadet Jimmy Howal
★7.1
MOVIE2026
Disneyland Handcrafted
as Self (archive footage)
★6.1
MOVIE1966
Stagecoach
as Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
★6.9
MOVIE1942
Saboteur
as Barry Kane
★7.1
MOVIE1943
Flesh and Fantasy
as Michael (segment 1)
★6.3
MOVIE1948
Sleep, My Love
as Bruce Elcott
★7.1
MOVIE1964
What a Way to Go!
as Dr. Victor Stephanson
★5.2
MOVIE1967
Five Golden Dragons
as Bob Mitchell
★5.8
MOVIE1940
One Night in the Tropics
as Steve Harper
★6.5
MOVIE1943
Princess O'Rourke
as Eddie O'Rourke
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Heaven Only Knows
as Michael, aka Mike
★7.1
MOVIE1933
Sons of the Desert
as Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1942
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1962
My Geisha
as Bob Moore
★6.8
MOVIE1949
Reign of Terror
as Charles D'Aubigny
★7.7
MOVIE1935
So Red the Rose
as George Pendleton
★6.2
MOVIE1947
The Lost Moment
as Lewis Venable
★7.3
MOVIE1942
Kings Row
as Parris Mitchell
★5.9
MOVIE1964
The Carpetbaggers
as Dan Pierce
★7.2
MOVIE1939
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
as Harry Loren
★6.0
MOVIE1963
Beach Party
as Professor Sutwell
★7.5
MOVIE1943
Forever and a Day
as Ned
★5.5
MOVIE1937
Wells Fargo
as Dan Trimball, prospector
★4.1
MOVIE1966
Promise Her Anything
as Dr. Philip Brock
★5.8
MOVIE1936
The Accusing Finger
as Jimmy Ellis
★6.1
MOVIE1949
The Accused
as Warren Ford
★6.6
MOVIE1938
You and Me
as Jim
★6.2
MOVIE1946
The Chase
as Chuck Scott
★5.4
MOVIE1939
Rio
as Bill Gregory
★4.8
MOVIE1937
The Last Train from Madrid
as Juan Ramos
★7.7
MOVIE1941
The Devil and Miss Jones
as Joe O'Brien
★7.2
MOVIE1941
It Started with Eve
as Johnny Reynolds Jr.
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Moon Over Miami
as Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II
★6.0
MOVIE1990
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
★4.3
MOVIE1950
The Petty Girl
as George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp
★4.6
MOVIE1955
How to Be Very, Very Popular
as Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood
MOVIE1916
Romeo and Juliet
as Friar Lawrence
★7.0
MOVIE1950
For Heaven's Sake
as Jeff Bolton
★6.8
MOVIE1938
College Swing
as Radio Announcer
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Hideaway Girl
as Mike Winslow
★7.3
MOVIE1959
Disneyland '59
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE1946
The Bride Wore Boots
as Jeff Warren
★6.6
MOVIE1938
The Texans
as Alan Sanford
★6.8
MOVIE1954
Lucky Me
as Dick Carson
★7.9
MOVIE1954
Twelve Angry Men
as Juror #8
★6.7
MOVIE1969
Gidget Grows Up
as Russell Lawrence
★5.0
MOVIE1973
Partners in Crime
as Ralph Elsworth
★6.9
MOVIE1941
Free and Easy
as Max Clemington
★5.3
MOVIE1939
Everything Happens at Night
as Ken Morgan
★7.3
MOVIE1945
You Came Along
as Maj. Bob Collins
★6.3
MOVIE1973
The Great American Beauty Contest
as Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
★6.5
MOVIE1937
Souls at Sea
as George Martin
MOVIE1958
Bomber's Moon
as Colonel Culver
★6.6
MOVIE1949
Tell It to the Judge
as Pete Webb
★6.9
MOVIE1950
Paid in Full
as Bill Prentice
★6.0
MOVIE1960
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
MOVIE1962
Holiday Time at Disneyland
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1955
Disneyland's Opening Day Broadcast
★6.9
MOVIE1940
Spring Parade
as Corporal Harry Marten
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Private Affairs
as Jimmy Nolan
★7.0
MOVIE1948
Let's Live a Little
as Duke Crawford
★6.7
MOVIE1940
And One Was Beautiful
as Ridley Crane
★7.5
MOVIE1952
The First Time
as Joe Bennett
★6.3
MOVIE1949
Free For All
as Christopher Parker
★6.5
MOVIE1951
The Barefoot Mailman
as Sylvanus Hurley
★5.5
MOVIE1936
Forgotten Faces
as Clinton Faraday
★4.5
MOVIE1936
Hollywood Boulevard
as Jay Wallace
★8.0
MOVIE1960
Gala Day at Disneyland
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1935
Millions in the Air
as Jimmy
★7.5
MOVIE1942
Between Us Girls
as Jimmy Blake
★8.0
MOVIE1939
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
as Scotty Hamilton
★3.3
MOVIE1978
Three on a Date
as Cab Driver
★8.0
MOVIE1953
Marry Me Again
as Bill
★9.0
MOVIE1938
I Stand Accused
as Frederick A. Davis
★6.5
MOVIE1936
Border Flight
as Lt. Bob Dixon
★6.0
MOVIE1933
Seasoned Greetings
as Husband (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1936
Desert Gold
as Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer
MOVIE1943
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, no. 3)
as Himself
★8.0
MOVIE1937
Sophie Lang Goes West
as Curley Griffin
★6.5
MOVIE1936
Arizona Mahoney
as Phillip Randall
★7.0
MOVIE1939
The Under-Pup
as Dennis Lane
★10.0
MOVIE1935
The Virginia Judge
as Jim Preston