Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1910-06-09
Day of Death
1990-12-02
Place of Birth
Joplin, Missouri, USA
Robert Cummings
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.
Filmography (82)
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
1990
Three on a Date
1978
Partners in Crime
1973
The Great American Beauty Contest
1973
Gidget Grows Up
1969
Five Golden Dragons
1967
Stagecoach
1966
Promise Her Anything
1966
What a Way to Go!
1964
The Carpetbaggers
1964
Beach Party
1963
Holiday Time at Disneyland
1962
My Geisha
1962
Gala Day at Disneyland
1960
