Movies List
TV Show List
The Great American Beauty Contest

as Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)

1973
Gidget Grows Up

as Russell Lawrence

1969
Five Golden Dragons

as Bob Mitchell

1967
Stagecoach

as Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)

1966
What a Way to Go!

as Dr. Victor Stephanson

1964
The Carpetbaggers

as Dan Pierce

1964
Beach Party

as Professor Sutwell

1963
My Geisha

as Bob Moore

1962
Dial M for Murder

as Mark Halliday

1954
Lucky Me

as Dick Carson

1954
The Barefoot Mailman

as Sylvanus Hurley

1951
For Heaven's Sake

as Jeff Bolton

1950
Reign of Terror

as Charles D'Aubigny

1949
The Accused

as Warren Ford

1949
Tell It to the Judge

as Pete Webb

1949
Free For All

as Christopher Parker

1949
Sleep, My Love

as Bruce Elcott

1948
Let's Live a Little

as Duke Crawford

1948
The Lost Moment

as Lewis Venable

1947
The Chase

as Chuck Scott

1946
The Bride Wore Boots

as Jeff Warren

1946
You Came Along

as Maj. Bob Collins

1945
Princess O'Rourke

as Eddie O'Rourke

1943
Flesh and Fantasy

as Michael (segment 1)

1943
Saboteur

as Barry Kane

1942
Kings Row

as Parris Mitchell

1942
It Started with Eve

as Johnny Reynolds Jr.

1941
Moon Over Miami

as Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II

1941
And One Was Beautiful

as Ridley Crane

1940
Robert Cummings Robert Cummings

Birthday

1910-06-10

Place of Birth

Joplin, Missouri, USA

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.
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