Robert Cummings
Acting • Born 1910-06-09 – Died 1990-12-02
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
126 credits
Dial M for Murder
Movie • 1954
Mark Halliday
Sophie Lang Goes West
Movie • 1937
Curley Griffin
Three on a Date
Movie • 1978
Cab Driver
What a Way to Go!
Movie • 1964
Dr. Victor Stephanson
Saboteur
Movie • 1942
Barry Kane
Princess O'Rourke
Movie • 1943
Eddie O'Rourke
It Started with Eve
Movie • 1941
Johnny Reynolds Jr.
Beach Party
Movie • 1963
Professor Sutwell
Lucky Me
Movie • 1954
Dick Carson
Rio
Movie • 1939
Bill Gregory
Reign of Terror
Movie • 1949
Charles D'Aubigny
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1916
Friar Lawrence
The Chase
Movie • 1946
Chuck Scott
One Night in the Tropics
Movie • 1940
Steve Harper
The Accused
Movie • 1949
Warren Ford
The Carpetbaggers
Movie • 1964
Dan Pierce
My Geisha
Movie • 1962
Bob Moore
Souls at Sea
Movie • 1937
George Martin
Moon Over Miami
Movie • 1941
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II
The Devil and Miss Jones
Movie • 1941
Joe O'Brien
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Movie • 1939
Harry Loren
Paid in Full
Movie • 1950
Bill Prentice
Stagecoach
Movie • 1966
Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
The Lost Moment
Movie • 1947
Lewis Venable
Kings Row
Movie • 1942
Parris Mitchell
Sleep, My Love
Movie • 1948
Bruce Elcott
Five Golden Dragons
Movie • 1967
Bob Mitchell
Promise Her Anything
Movie • 1966
Dr. Philip Brock
Heaven Only Knows
Movie • 1947
Michael, aka Mike
For Heaven's Sake
Movie • 1950
Jeff Bolton
The Texans
Movie • 1938
Alan Sanford
The Accusing Finger
Movie • 1936
Jimmy Ellis
Wells Fargo
Movie • 1937
Dan Trimball, prospector
The Petty Girl
Movie • 1950
George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp
Everything Happens at Night
Movie • 1939
Ken Morgan
College Swing
Movie • 1938
Radio Announcer
Flesh and Fantasy
Movie • 1943
Michael (segment 1)
You and Me
Movie • 1938
Jim
And One Was Beautiful
Movie • 1940
Ridley Crane
Desert Gold
Movie • 1936
Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer
The Bride Wore Boots
Movie • 1946
Jeff Warren
Gidget Grows Up
Movie • 1969
Russell Lawrence
The First Time
Movie • 1952
Joe Bennett
Spring Parade
Movie • 1940
Corporal Harry Marten
Tell It to the Judge
Movie • 1949
Pete Webb
The Last Train from Madrid
Movie • 1937
Juan Ramos
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Movie • 1939
Scotty Hamilton
So Red the Rose
Movie • 1935
George Pendleton
You Came Along
Movie • 1945
Maj. Bob Collins
Bomber's Moon
Movie • 1958
Colonel Culver
The Barefoot Mailman
Movie • 1951
Sylvanus Hurley
Let's Live a Little
Movie • 1948
Duke Crawford
I Stand Accused
Movie • 1938
Frederick A. Davis
Free For All
Movie • 1949
Christopher Parker
The Great American Beauty Contest
Movie • 1973
Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
Holiday Time at Disneyland
Movie • 1962
Self
Sons of the Desert
Movie • 1933
Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
Seasoned Greetings
Movie • 1933
Husband (uncredited)
The Under-Pup
Movie • 1939
Dennis Lane
Arizona Mahoney
Movie • 1936
Phillip Randall
How to Be Very, Very Popular
Movie • 1955
Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie • 1936
Jay Wallace
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Movie • 1960
Self
Touchdown, Army
Movie • 1938
Cadet Jimmy Howal
Free and Easy
Movie • 1941
Max Clemington
Twelve Angry Men
Movie • 1954
Juror #8
Between Us Girls
Movie • 1942
Jimmy Blake
Forever and a Day
Movie • 1943
Ned
Marry Me Again
Movie • 1953
Bill
Border Flight
Movie • 1936
Lt. Bob Dixon
The Virginia Judge
Movie • 1935
Jim Preston
Hideaway Girl
Movie • 1936
Mike Winslow
Gala Day at Disneyland
Movie • 1960
Self
Disneyland's Opening Day Broadcast
Movie • 1955
Private Affairs
Movie • 1940
Jimmy Nolan
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
Movie • 1990
Self
Disneyland '59
Movie • 1959
Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, no. 3)
Movie • 1943
Himself
Partners in Crime
Movie • 1973
Ralph Elsworth
Breakdowns of 1942
Movie • 1942
Self
Forgotten Faces
Movie • 1936
Clinton Faraday
Millions in the Air
Movie • 1935
Jimmy
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse
Here's Lucy
TV • 1968
Bob Collins
Arnie
TV • 1970
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
TV • 1957
Robert Cummings
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
Self
Studio One
TV • 1948
Juror #8
Bewitched
TV • 1964
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Russ Baker
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
James Embry
The Hollywood Palace
TV • 1964
Self
The Bob Cummings Show
TV • 1955
Bob Collins
Your Show of Shows
TV • 1950
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
The New Bob Cummings Show
TV • 1961
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
My Hero
TV • 1952
Robert Beanblossom
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Lt. Charles Gatewood
The Steve Allen Show
TV • 1956
Self - Guest
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
TV • 1950
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Self - Host / Narrator / Interviewer
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Self - Host / Narrator / Self
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Spencer O. Spencer
The Bob Hope Show
TV • 1950
Self
Here's Lucy
TV • 1968
Robert Henning
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Sawyer
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Harvey Hines
Studio One
TV • 1948
George Lumley
The Elgin Hour
TV • 1954
Jeff Clark
My Living Doll
TV • 1964
Dr. Robert McDonald
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Wally
The Steve Allen Show
TV • 1956
Self - Love That Bob
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Eliott Smith
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Panelist
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self - Co-Host
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Co-Host
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Grandpa
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Mort Warner
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Robert Silbey