Robert Cummings

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1910-06-09 (80 years old)

Deathday

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 Hutche...

Acting

1954

Dial M for Murder

as Mark Halliday

1937

Sophie Lang Goes West

as Curley Griffin

1978

Three on a Date

as Cab Driver

1964

What a Way to Go!

as Dr. Victor Stephanson

1942

Saboteur

as Barry Kane

1943

Princess O'Rourke

as Eddie O'Rourke

1941

It Started with Eve

as Johnny Reynolds Jr.

1963

Beach Party

as Professor Sutwell

1954

Lucky Me

as Dick Carson

1939

Rio

as Bill Gregory

1949

Reign of Terror

as Charles D'Aubigny

1916

Romeo and Juliet

as Friar Lawrence

1946

The Chase

as Chuck Scott

1940

1949

The Accused

as Warren Ford

1964

The Carpetbaggers

as Dan Pierce

1962

My Geisha

as Bob Moore

1937

Souls at Sea

as George Martin

1941

Moon Over Miami

as Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II

1941

1939

1950

Paid in Full

as Bill Prentice

1966

Stagecoach

as Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)

1947

The Lost Moment

as Lewis Venable

1942

Kings Row

as Parris Mitchell

1948

Sleep, My Love

as Bruce Elcott

1967

Five Golden Dragons

as Bob Mitchell

1966

Promise Her Anything

as Dr. Philip Brock

1947

Heaven Only Knows

as Michael, aka Mike

1950

For Heaven's Sake

as Jeff Bolton

1938

The Texans

as Alan Sanford

1936

The Accusing Finger

as Jimmy Ellis

1937

Wells Fargo

as Dan Trimball, prospector

1950

The Petty Girl

as George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp

1938

College Swing

as Radio Announcer

1943

Flesh and Fantasy

as Michael (segment 1)

1938

1940

And One Was Beautiful

as Ridley Crane

1936

Desert Gold

as Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer

1946

The Bride Wore Boots

as Jeff Warren

1969

Gidget Grows Up

as Russell Lawrence

1952

The First Time

as Joe Bennett

1940

Spring Parade

as Corporal Harry Marten

1949

1939

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

as Scotty Hamilton

1935

So Red the Rose

as George Pendleton

1945

You Came Along

as Maj. Bob Collins

1958

Bomber's Moon

as Colonel Culver

1951

The Barefoot Mailman

as Sylvanus Hurley

1948

Let's Live a Little

as Duke Crawford

1938

I Stand Accused

as Frederick A. Davis

1949

Free For All

as Christopher Parker

1973

The Great American Beauty Contest

as Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)

1933

Sons of the Desert

as Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)

1933

Seasoned Greetings

as Husband (uncredited)

1939

The Under-Pup

as Dennis Lane

1936

Arizona Mahoney

as Phillip Randall

1955

How To Be Very, Very Popular

as Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood

1936

Hollywood Boulevard

as Jay Wallace

1938

Touchdown, Army

as Cadet Jimmy Howal

1941

Free and Easy

as Max Clemington

1954

Twelve Angry Men

as Juror #8

1942

Between Us Girls

as Jimmy Blake

1953

1936

Border Flight

as Lt. Bob Dixon

1935

The Virginia Judge

as Jim Preston

1936

Hideaway Girl

as Mike Winslow

1940

Private Affairs

as Jimmy Nolan

1959

1973

Partners in Crime

as Ralph Elsworth

1936

Forgotten Faces

as Clinton Faraday

Production

1962

My Geisha

as Songs

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