Robert Cummings

Known for ActingBorn 1910-06-09Died 1990-12-02Joplin, Missouri, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Great Adventure

The New Bob Cummings Show

The Virginia Judge

Millions in the Air

I Stand Accused

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

The Twilight Zone

Gala Day at Disneyland

Dial M for Murder

Bewitched

Marry Me Again

Twelve Angry Men

The Wonderful World of Disney

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

Sophie Lang Goes West

The Devil and Miss Jones

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

The First Time

So Red the Rose

Green Acres

Forever and a Day

Disneyland '59

Between Us Girls

Touchdown, Army

My Living Doll

You Came Along

What a Way to Go!

Kings Row

Your Show of Shows

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Golden Globe Awards

It Started with Eve

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Disneyland's Opening Day Broadcast

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Elgin Hour

What's My Line?

Flesh and Fantasy

My Hero

For Heaven's Sake

The Bob Hope Show

Let's Live a Little

Sons of the Desert

Private Affairs

The Colgate Comedy Hour

My Geisha

The Under-Pup