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