Robert Cummings
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.
116 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 116
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Love Boat
1977
Bewitched
1964
Love, American Style
1969
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
What's My Line?
1950
Green Acres
1965
Studio One
1948
Here's Lucy
1968
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
The Steve Allen Show
1956
The Bob Hope Show
1950
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950
Your Show of Shows
1950
Lux Video Theatre
1950
The Hollywood Palace
1964
The Great Adventure
1963
The Bob Cummings Show
1955
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Arnie
1970
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957
General Electric Theater
1953
Dial M for Murder
1954
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
My Living Doll
1964
Stagecoach
1966
The Elgin Hour
1954
Saboteur
1942
Beach Party
1963
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
1990
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
What a Way to Go!
1964
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941
My Hero
1952
Reign of Terror
1949
The New Bob Cummings Show
1961
Kings Row
1942
The Carpetbaggers
1964
My Geisha
1962
Sons of the Desert
1933
The Chase
1946
The Accused
1949
One Night in the Tropics
1940
The Last Train from Madrid
1937
Twelve Angry Men
1954
Forever and a Day
1943
Wells Fargo
1937
Souls at Sea
1937
Sleep, My Love
1948
How to Be Very, Very Popular
1955
Rio
1939
You and Me
1938
It Started with Eve
1941
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
The Texans
1938
Flesh and Fantasy
1943
Lucky Me
1954
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1960
The Great American Beauty Contest
1973
The Accusing Finger
1936
Five Golden Dragons
1967
Arizona Mahoney
1936
The Barefoot Mailman
1951
Promise Her Anything
1966
Princess O'Rourke
1943
Disneyland '59
1959
Gidget Grows Up
1969
Paid in Full
1950
Three on a Date
1978
Private Affairs
1940
Border Flight
1936
Let's Live a Little
1948
Desert Gold
1936
So Red the Rose
1935
You Came Along
1945
The Under-Pup
1939
Partners in Crime
1973
The Petty Girl
1950
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939
Spring Parade
1940
Free For All
1949
College Swing
1938
And One Was Beautiful
1940
Bomber's Moon
1958
The Bride Wore Boots
1946
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939
Tell It to the Judge
1949
Heaven Only Knows
1947
Marry Me Again
1953
Everything Happens at Night
1939
Moon Over Miami
1941
Disneyland's Opening Day Broadcast
1955
Holiday Time at Disneyland
1962
Forgotten Faces
1936
Touchdown, Army
1938
For Heaven's Sake
1950
Seasoned Greetings
1933
Free and Easy
1941
Millions in the Air
1935
Hideaway Girl
1936
The Lost Moment
1947
Between Us Girls
1942
The First Time
1952
Gala Day at Disneyland
1960
I Stand Accused
1938
Sophie Lang Goes West
1937
The Virginia Judge
1935
Romeo and Juliet
1916
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, no. 3)
1943