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.
Acting
Movie
Dial M for Murder
as Mark Halliday
1954
TV
The Twilight Zone
as James Embry
1959
TV
Bewitched
1964
Movie
Saboteur
as Barry Kane
1942
Movie
Sons of the Desert
as Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
1933
TV
The Love Boat
as Eliott Smith
1977
TV
The Beverly Hillbillies
as Self
1962
Movie
What a Way to Go!
as Dr. Victor Stephanson
1964
TV
Green Acres
as Mort Warner
1965
Movie
The Chase
as Chuck Scott
1946
Movie
The Devil and Miss Jones
as Joe O'Brien
1941
Movie
Sleep, My Love
as Bruce Elcott
1948
Movie
Reign of Terror
as Charles D'Aubigny
1949
Movie
Stagecoach
as Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
1966
Movie
Twelve Angry Men
as Juror #8
1954
Movie
You and Me
as Jim
1938
Movie
Kings Row
as Parris Mitchell
1942
Movie
Beach Party
as Professor Sutwell
1963
Movie
The Carpetbaggers
as Dan Pierce
1964
TV
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Self - Host / Narrator / Interviewer
1954
TV
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Self - Host / Narrator / Self
1954
TV
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Self
1954
Movie
It Started with Eve
as Johnny Reynolds Jr.
1941
TV
Here's Lucy
as Bob Collins
1968
