Robert Cummings

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1910-06-09

Deathday 1990-12-02 (80 years old)

Place of Birth Joplin, Missouri, USA

Also Known As Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings, Bob Cummings, Blade Stanhope Conway, Bruce Hutchens, Роберт Каммингс, Bryce Hutchens

Robert Cummings

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.

Known For

Actor

1978
Three on a Date

as Cab Driver

1977
The Love Boat

as Eliott Smith

1973
Partners in Crime

as Ralph Elsworth

1973
The Great American Beauty Contest

as Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)

1970
1969
Gidget Grows Up

as Russell Lawrence

1969
1968
Here's Lucy

as Bob Collins

1968
Here's Lucy

as Robert Henning

1967
Five Golden Dragons

as Bob Mitchell

1966
Stagecoach

as Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)

1966
Promise Her Anything

as Dr. Philip Brock

1965
Green Acres

as Mort Warner

1964
What a Way to Go!

as Dr. Victor Stephanson

1964
The Carpetbaggers

as Dan Pierce

1964
My Living Doll

as Dr. Robert McDonald

1964
The Hollywood Palace

as Self - Host

1963
Beach Party

as Professor Sutwell

1963
The Great Adventure

as Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse

1962
My Geisha

as Bob Moore

1961
The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host

1959
1959
The Twilight Zone

as James Embry

1958
Bomber's Moon

as Colonel Culver

1957
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

as Robert Cummings

1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Lt. Charles Gatewood

1956
The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Guest

1956
The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Love That Bob

1955
How To Be Very, Very Popular

as Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood

1955
The Bob Cummings Show

as Bob Collins

1954
Twelve Angry Men

as Juror #8

1954
Dial M for Murder

as Mark Halliday

1954
Lucky Me

as Dick Carson

1954
The Wonderful World of Disney

as Self - Host / Narrator / Interviewer

1954
The Wonderful World of Disney

as Self - Host / Narrator / Self

1954
The Elgin Hour

as Jeff Clark

1953
1953
1952
The First Time

as Joe Bennett

1952
My Hero

as Robert Beanblossom

1951
The Barefoot Mailman

as Sylvanus Hurley

1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Spencer O. Spencer

1950
For Heaven's Sake

as Jeff Bolton

1950
The Petty Girl

as George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp

1950
Paid in Full

as Bill Prentice

1950
1950
1950
1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist

1949
1949
Free For All

as Christopher Parker

1949
Reign of Terror

as Charles D'Aubigny

1949
The Accused

as Warren Ford

1948
Let's Live a Little

as Duke Crawford

1948
Sleep, My Love

as Bruce Elcott

1948
Studio One

as Juror #8

1948
Studio One

as George Lumley

1947
The Lost Moment

as Lewis Venable

1947
Heaven Only Knows

as Michael, aka Mike

1946
The Chase

as Chuck Scott

1946
The Bride Wore Boots

as Jeff Warren

1945
You Came Along

as Maj. Bob Collins

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Co-Host

1943
Flesh and Fantasy

as Michael (segment 1)

1943
Princess O'Rourke

as Eddie O'Rourke

1942
1942
Between Us Girls

as Jimmy Blake

1942
Saboteur

as Barry Kane

1942
Kings Row

as Parris Mitchell

1941
It Started with Eve

as Johnny Reynolds Jr.

1941
Moon Over Miami

as Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II

1941
1941
Free and Easy

as Max Clemington

1940
One Night in the Tropics

as Steve Harper

1940
Spring Parade

as Corporal Harry Marten

1940
Private Affairs

as Jimmy Nolan

1940
And One Was Beautiful

as Ridley Crane

1939
1939
Charlie McCarthy, Detective

as Scotty Hamilton

1939
Rio

as Bill Gregory

1939
The Under-Pup

as Dennis Lane

1939
1938
I Stand Accused

as Frederick A. Davis

1938
The Texans

as Alan Sanford

1938
Touchdown, Army

as Cadet Jimmy Howal

1938
You and Me

as Jim

1938
College Swing

as Radio Announcer

1937
Wells Fargo

as Dan Trimball, prospector

1937
Sophie Lang Goes West

as Curley Griffin

1937
Souls at Sea

as George Martin

1937
1936
Arizona Mahoney

as Phillip Randall

1936
Hideaway Girl

as Mike Winslow

1936
The Accusing Finger

as Jimmy Ellis

1936
Hollywood Boulevard

as Jay Wallace

1936
Border Flight

as Lt. Bob Dixon

1936
Forgotten Faces

as Clinton Faraday

1936
Desert Gold

as Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer

1935
So Red the Rose

as George Pendleton

1935
The Virginia Judge

as Jim Preston

1933
Sons of the Desert

as Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)

1933
Seasoned Greetings

as Husband (uncredited)

1916
Romeo and Juliet

as Friar Lawrence

Writer

1952
My Hero

as Writer

Sound

1962
My Geisha

as Songs

Director

1955