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.
Curley Griffin
Film 1937
Cab Driver
Film 1978
Barry Kane
Film 1942
Eddie O'Rourke
Film 1943
Johnny Reynolds Jr.
Film 1941
Dick Carson
Film 1954
Bill Gregory
Film 1939
Friar Lawrence
Film 1916
Chuck Scott
Film 1946
George Martin
Film 1937
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II
Film 1941
Harry Loren
Film 1939
Bill Prentice
Film 1950
Bob Mitchell
Film 1967
Michael, aka Mike
Film 1947
Jeff Bolton
Film 1950
Alan Sanford
Film 1938
Jimmy Ellis
Film 1936
Dan Trimball, prospector
Film 1937
George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp
Film 1950
Ken Morgan
Film 1939
Radio Announcer
Film 1938
Michael (segment 1)
Film 1943
Ridley Crane
Film 1940
Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer
Film 1936
Russell Lawrence
Film 1969
Joe Bennett
Film 1952
Pete Webb
Film 1949
Juan Ramos
Film 1937
Scotty Hamilton
Film 1939
George Pendleton
Film 1935
Colonel Culver
Film 1958
Sylvanus Hurley
Film 1951
Duke Crawford
Film 1948
Frederick A. Davis
Film 1938
Christopher Parker
Film 1949
Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
Film 1973
Self
Film 1962
Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
Film 1933
Husband (uncredited)
Film 1933
Dennis Lane
Film 1939
Phillip Randall
Film 1936
Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood
Film 1955
Jay Wallace
Film 1936
Self
Film 1960
Cadet Jimmy Howal
Film 1938
Juror #8
Film 1954
Jimmy Blake
Film 1942
Bill
Film 1953
Lt. Bob Dixon
Film 1936
Jim Preston
Film 1935
Mike Winslow
Film 1936
Self
Film 1960
Film 1955
Jimmy Nolan
Film 1940
Self
Film 1990
Self
Film 1959
Himself
Film 1943
Ralph Elsworth
Film 1973
Self
Film 1942
Clinton Faraday
Film 1936
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse
Tv 1963
Tv 1970
Self
Tv 1950
Robert Cummings
Tv 1957
Self
Tv 1962
Tv 1964
Russ Baker
Tv 1953
James Embry
Tv 1959
Self - Host
Tv 1964
Bob Collins
Tv 1955
Tv 1950
Tv 1951
Tv 1961
Self
Tv 1956
Robert Beanblossom
Tv 1952
Self - Guest
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1957
Tv 1950
Self - Host / Narrator / Interviewer
Tv 1954
Self - Host / Narrator / Self
Tv 1954
Spencer O. Spencer
Tv 1951
Self
Tv 1950
Harvey Hines
Tv 1963
Jeff Clark
Tv 1954
Dr. Robert McDonald
Tv 1964
Wally
Tv 1950
Self - Love That Bob
Tv 1956
Eliott Smith
Tv 1977
Self
Tv 1950
Self
Tv 1954
Self - Panelist
Tv 1950
Self - Co-Host
Tv 1961
Self - Co-Host
Tv 1944
Mort Warner
Tv 1965