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Robert Cummings
Actor, Director, Producer, Writer
Died December 2, 1990 (80 years)
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
| 2005 | Paul Henning & The Hillbillies · as Bob Collins |
| 1977 | The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Eliott Smith |
| 1971 | The Good Life (1971) (TV Series) · as Wedemeyer |
| 1969 | Gidget Grows Up · as Russell Lawrence |
| 1969 | Love, American Style (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1968 | Here Come the Brides (TV Series) · as Jack Crosse |
| 1968 | Here's Lucy (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1967 | Five Golden Dragons · as Bob Mitchell |
| 1967 | The Flying Nun (TV Series) · as Father Walter Larson |
| 1966 | Stagecoach · as Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings) |
| 1966 | Promise Her Anything · as Dr. Philip Brock |
| 1965 | Hollywood My Home Town · as Unknown |
| 1965 | Green Acres (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1964 | What a Way to Go! · as Victor Stephanson |
| 1964 | The Carpetbaggers · as Dan Pierce |
| 1964 | The Hollywood Palace (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1964 | My Living Doll (TV Series) · as Dr. Robert McDonald |
| 1964 | Bewitched (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1963 | Beach Party · as Professor Sutwell |
| 1962 | My Geisha · as Bob Moore |
| 1962 | The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Capt. James Embry |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as Lt. Charles Gatewood |
| 1955 | The Bob Cummings Show (TV Series) · as Bob Collins |
| 1954 | Dial M for Murder · as Mark Halliday |
| 1954 | Lucky Me · as Dick Carson |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Russ Baker |
| 1952 | The First Time · as Joe Bennett |
| 1952 | My Hero (1952) (TV Series) · as Robert Beanblossom |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Farley |
| 1950 | The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1949 | Reign of Terror · as Charles D'Aubigny |
| 1949 | The Accused · as Warren Ford |
| 1949 | Tell It to the Judge · as Pete Webb |
| 1948 | Sleep, My Love · as Bruce Elcott |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Juror #8 |
| 1946 | The Chase · as Chuck Scott |
| 1942 | Kings Row · as Parris Mitchell |
| 1942 | Saboteur · as Barry Kane |
| 1941 | Moon Over Miami · as Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II |
| 1941 | The Devil and Miss Jones · as Joe O'Brien |
| 1938 | You and Me · as Jim |
| 1936 | Desert Gold · as Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer |
| 1936 | Arizona Mahoney · as Phillip Randall |
| 1933 | Sons of the Desert · as Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Seasoned Greetings · as The Beau/Husband in 'Sunny Weather' Number (uncredited) |