
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