
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.
Movie | The Great American Beauty Contest | Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings) | 1973-02-13 |
Movie | Gidget Grows Up | Russell Lawrence | 1969-12-30 |
Movie | Five Golden Dragons | Bob Mitchell | 1967-08-03 |
Movie | Promise Her Anything | Dr. Philip Brock | 1966-02-22 |
Movie | Stagecoach | Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings) | 1966-04-21 |
Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
Movie | The Carpetbaggers | Dan Pierce | 1964-04-08 |
Movie | What a Way to Go! | Dr. Victor Stephanson | 1964-07-31 |
Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self (archive footage) | 1963-07-01 |
Movie | Beach Party | Professor Sutwell | 1963-08-07 |
Movie | My Geisha | Bob Moore | 1962-03-09 |
Movie | Holiday Time at Disneyland | Self | 1962-12-23 |
Series | The New Bob Cummings Show | 1961-10-05 | |
Movie | Gala Day at Disneyland | Self | 1960-01-21 |
Movie | Disneyland '59 | Self | 1959-06-15 |
Movie | Bomber's Moon | Colonel Culver | 1958-08-07 |
Series | The Bob Cummings Show | Bob Collins | 1955-01-02 |
Movie | How To Be Very, Very Popular | Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood | 1955-07-22 |
Movie | Lucky Me | Dick Carson | 1954-04-09 |
Movie | Dial M for Murder | Mark Halliday | 1954-05-29 |
Movie | Twelve Angry Men | Juror #8 | 1954-09-20 |
Movie | Marry Me Again | Bill | 1953-09-22 |
Movie | The First Time | Joe Bennett | 1952-01-31 |
Series | My Hero (US) | Robert Beanblossom | 1952-11-08 |
Movie | The Barefoot Mailman | Sylvanus Hurley | 1951-12-03 |
Movie | For Heaven's Sake | Jeff Bolton | 1950-12-15 |
Movie | Paid in Full | Bill Prentice | 1950-02-15 |
Movie | The Petty Girl | George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp | 1950-08-17 |
Movie | The Accused | Warren Ford | 1949-01-12 |
Movie | Reign of Terror | Charles D'Aubigny | 1949-10-15 |
Movie | Free For All | Christopher Parker | 1949-11-01 |
Movie | Tell It to the Judge | Pete Webb | 1949-11-18 |
Movie | Sleep, My Love | Bruce Elcott | 1948-02-18 |
Movie | Let's Live a Little | Duke Crawford | 1948-12-09 |
Movie | Heaven Only Knows | Michael, aka Mike | 1947-09-12 |
Movie | The Chase | Chuck Scott | 1946-11-16 |
Movie | The Bride Wore Boots | Jeff Warren | 1946-06-05 |
Movie | You Came Along | Maj. Bob Collins | 1945-07-04 |
Movie | Princess O'Rourke | Eddie O'Rourke | 1943-10-23 |
Movie | Forever and a Day | Ned | 1943-01-21 |
Movie | Flesh and Fantasy | Michael (segment 1) | 1943-10-29 |
Movie | Kings Row | Parris Mitchell | 1942-02-02 |
Movie | Saboteur | Barry Kane | 1942-04-24 |
Movie | Between Us Girls | Jimmy Blake | 1942-09-04 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1942 | Self | 1942-12-31 |
Movie | The Devil and Miss Jones | Joe O'Brien | 1941-04-11 |
Movie | Free and Easy | Max Clemington | 1941-02-28 |
Movie | Moon Over Miami | Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II | 1941-07-04 |
Movie | It Started with Eve | Johnny Reynolds Jr. | 1941-09-26 |
Movie | And One Was Beautiful | Ridley Crane | 1940-04-05 |
Movie | Spring Parade | Corporal Harry Marten | 1940-09-27 |
Movie | One Night in the Tropics | Steve Harper | 1940-11-15 |
Movie | Three Smart Girls Grow Up | Harry Loren | 1939-03-24 |
Movie | The Under-Pup | Dennis Lane | 1939-08-31 |
Movie | Charlie McCarthy, Detective | Scotty Hamilton | 1939-12-22 |
Movie | Rio | Bill Gregory | 1939-09-29 |
Movie | Everything Happens at Night | Ken Morgan | 1939-12-22 |
Movie | You and Me | Jim | 1938-06-01 |
Movie | College Swing | Radio Announcer | 1938-04-29 |
Movie | Touchdown, Army | Cadet Jimmy Howal | 1938-08-04 |
Movie | The Texans | Alan Sanford | 1938-08-12 |
Movie | The Last Train from Madrid | Juan Ramos | 1937-06-11 |
Movie | The Outer Gate | Judge (uncredited) | 1937-08-04 |
Movie | Souls at Sea | George Martin | 1937-09-03 |
Movie | Wells Fargo | Dan Trimball, prospector | 1937-12-31 |
Movie | Sophie Lang Goes West | Curley Griffin | 1937-09-10 |
Movie | Hollywood Boulevard | Jay Wallace | 1936-08-20 |
Movie | Desert Gold | Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer | 1936-03-26 |
Movie | Border Flight | Lt. Bob Dixon | 1936-05-29 |
Movie | Lady Be Careful | First Officer | 1936-09-03 |
Movie | Arizona Mahoney | Phillip Randall | 1936-12-04 |
Movie | The Accusing Finger | Jimmy Ellis | 1936-11-17 |
Movie | So Red the Rose | George Pendleton | 1935-12-20 |
Movie | Seasoned Greetings | Husband (uncredited) | 1933-09-23 |
Movie | Sons of the Desert | Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited) | 1933-12-29 |
Movie | The Song of Songs | Phineas Bennett | 1918-02-18 |
Movie | Betsy Ross | Joel Radley | 1917-09-16 |
Movie | The Law of Compensation | Horace Benton | 1917-04-01 |
Movie | Alias Jimmy Valentine | Doyle | 1915-02-22 |
Movie | Camille | Monsieur Duval | 1915-12-27 |
Movie | The Cub | Capt. White | 1915-07-15 |
Movie | The Jungle | Connor | 1914-05-25 |
Are you sure you want to hide this?