Robert Cummings
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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
Credits
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)
Actor
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