Birth Day: 1910-06-09
Place of birth: Joplin, Missouri, USA
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.
Credits
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As Self
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As Cab Driver
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As Ralph Elsworth
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As Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
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As Himself
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As Russell Lawrence
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As Bob Mitchell
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As Dr. Philip Brock
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As Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
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As Dan Pierce
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As Dr. Victor Stephanson
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As Professor Sutwell
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As Self
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As Bob Moore
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As Himself
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As Self
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As Self
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As Colonel Culver
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As Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood
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As Juror #8
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As Mark Halliday
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As Dick Carson
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As Bill
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As Joe Bennett
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As Sylvanus Hurley
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As Jeff Bolton
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As George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp
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As Bill Prentice
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As Warren Ford
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As Christopher Parker
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As Charles D'Aubigny
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As Pete Webb
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As Bruce Elcott
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As Duke Crawford
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As Lewis Venable
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As Michael, aka Mike
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As Jeff Warren
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As Chuck Scott
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As Maj. Bob Collins
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As Ned
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As Michael (segment 1)
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As Eddie O'Rourke
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As Parris Mitchell
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As Jimmy Blake
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As Barry Kane
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As Self
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As Johnny Reynolds Jr.
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As Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II
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As Max Clemington
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As Joe O'Brien
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As Steve Harper
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As Jimmy Nolan
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As Corporal Harry Marten
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As Ridley Crane
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As Scotty Hamilton
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As Harry Loren
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As Bill Gregory
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As Ken Morgan
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As Dennis Lane
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As Jim
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As Cadet Jimmy Howal
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As Frederick A. Davis
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As Radio Announcer
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As Alan Sanford
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As Curley Griffin
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As Juan Ramos
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As George Martin
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As Dan Trimball, prospector
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As Mike Winslow
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As Lt. Bob Dixon
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As Jay Wallace
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As Phillip Randall
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As Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer
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As Jimmy Ellis
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As Jim Preston
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As George Pendleton
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As The Beau/Husband in 'Sunny Weather' Number (uncredited)
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As Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
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As Friar Lawrence