Robert Cummings
Known for Acting · 117 credits
- Born
- 1910-06-09
- Died
- 1990-12-02
- Place of birth
- Joplin, Missouri, USA
- Also known as
- Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings · Bob Cummings · Blade Stanhope Conway · Bruce Hutchens · Роберт Каммингс · Bryce Hutchens
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.
Known For
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Host
The Love Boat
1977
as Eliott Smith
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Sawyer
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Harvey Hines / Robert Silbey
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Co-Host
What's My Line?
1950
as Self / Self - Panelist
TV Shows (34)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Host
The Love Boat
1977
as Eliott Smith
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Sawyer
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Harvey Hines / Robert Silbey
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Co-Host
What's My Line?
1950
as Self / Self - Panelist
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
as Self
Love, American Style
1969
as Grandpa
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950
The Twilight Zone
1959
as James Embry
Studio One
1948
as Juror #8 / George Lumley
Bewitched
1964
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
Green Acres
1965
as Mort Warner
The Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self
The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - Guest / Self - Love That Bob
Here's Lucy
1968
as Bob Collins / Robert Henning
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Lt. Charles Gatewood
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
The Bob Cummings Show
1955
as Bob Collins
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Wally
Arnie
1970
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Self - Host / Narrator / Interviewer / Self - Host / Narrator / Self
The Great Adventure
1963
as Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse
The Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self
Your Show of Shows
1950
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957
as Robert Cummings
My Living Doll
1964
as Dr. Robert McDonald
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Spencer O. Spencer
The Elgin Hour
1954
as Jeff Clark
The New Bob Cummings Show
1961
My Hero
1952
as Robert Beanblossom
General Electric Theater
1953
as Russ Baker
Movies (83)
Dial M for Murder
1954
as Mark Halliday
Touchdown, Army
1938
as Cadet Jimmy Howal
Disneyland Handcrafted
2026
as Self (archive footage)
Stagecoach
1966
as Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
Saboteur
1942
as Barry Kane
Flesh and Fantasy
1943
as Michael (segment 1)
Sleep, My Love
1948
as Bruce Elcott
What a Way to Go!
1964
as Dr. Victor Stephanson
Five Golden Dragons
1967
as Bob Mitchell
One Night in the Tropics
1940
as Steve Harper
Princess O'Rourke
1943
as Eddie O'Rourke
Heaven Only Knows
1947
as Michael, aka Mike
Sons of the Desert
1933
as Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
as Self
My Geisha
1962
as Bob Moore
Reign of Terror
1949
as Charles D'Aubigny
So Red the Rose
1935
as George Pendleton
The Lost Moment
1947
as Lewis Venable
Kings Row
1942
as Parris Mitchell
The Carpetbaggers
1964
as Dan Pierce
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939
as Harry Loren
Beach Party
1963
as Professor Sutwell
Forever and a Day
1943
as Ned
Wells Fargo
1937
as Dan Trimball, prospector
Promise Her Anything
1966
as Dr. Philip Brock
The Accusing Finger
1936
as Jimmy Ellis
The Accused
1949
as Warren Ford
You and Me
1938
as Jim
The Chase
1946
as Chuck Scott
Rio
1939
as Bill Gregory
The Last Train from Madrid
1937
as Juan Ramos
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941
as Joe O'Brien
It Started with Eve
1941
as Johnny Reynolds Jr.
Moon Over Miami
1941
as Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
1990
as Self
The Petty Girl
1950
as George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp
How to Be Very, Very Popular
1955
as Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood
Romeo and Juliet
1916
as Friar Lawrence
For Heaven's Sake
1950
as Jeff Bolton
College Swing
1938
as Radio Announcer
Hideaway Girl
1936
as Mike Winslow
Disneyland '59
1959
as Self
The Bride Wore Boots
1946
as Jeff Warren
The Texans
1938
as Alan Sanford
Lucky Me
1954
as Dick Carson
Twelve Angry Men
1954
as Juror #8
Gidget Grows Up
1969
as Russell Lawrence
Partners in Crime
1973
as Ralph Elsworth
Free and Easy
1941
as Max Clemington
Everything Happens at Night
1939
as Ken Morgan
You Came Along
1945
as Maj. Bob Collins
The Great American Beauty Contest
1973
as Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
Souls at Sea
1937
as George Martin
Bomber's Moon
1958
as Colonel Culver
Tell It to the Judge
1949
as Pete Webb
Paid in Full
1950
as Bill Prentice
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1960
as Self
Holiday Time at Disneyland
1962
as Self
Disneyland's Opening Day Broadcast
1955
Spring Parade
1940
as Corporal Harry Marten
Private Affairs
1940
as Jimmy Nolan
Let's Live a Little
1948
as Duke Crawford
And One Was Beautiful
1940
as Ridley Crane
The First Time
1952
as Joe Bennett
Free For All
1949
as Christopher Parker
The Barefoot Mailman
1951
as Sylvanus Hurley
Forgotten Faces
1936
as Clinton Faraday
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
as Jay Wallace
Gala Day at Disneyland
1960
as Self
Millions in the Air
1935
as Jimmy
Between Us Girls
1942
as Jimmy Blake
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939
as Scotty Hamilton
Three on a Date
1978
as Cab Driver
Marry Me Again
1953
as Bill
I Stand Accused
1938
as Frederick A. Davis
Border Flight
1936
as Lt. Bob Dixon
Seasoned Greetings
1933
as Husband (uncredited)
Desert Gold
1936
as Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, no. 3)
1943
as Himself
Sophie Lang Goes West
1937
as Curley Griffin
Arizona Mahoney
1936
as Phillip Randall
The Under-Pup
1939
as Dennis Lane
The Virginia Judge
1935
as Jim Preston
About Robert Cummings
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 woul… With 117 credits spanning from 1916 to 2026, Robert Cummings has appeared in 83 films and 34 TV shows.
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- Dial M for Murder (1954) — as Mark Halliday
- Touchdown, Army (1938) — as Cadet Jimmy Howal
- Disneyland Handcrafted (2026) — as Self (archive footage)
- Stagecoach (1966) — as Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
- Saboteur (1942) — as Barry Kane
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