Known for Acting
Birthday
June 9, 1910
Place of Birth
Joplin, Missouri, USA
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.

The Mike Douglas Show

Golden Globe Awards

The Love Boat

The Twilight Zone

Bewitched

What's My Line?

What's My Line?

Studio One

Studio One

The Beverly Hillbillies

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Love, American Style

Love, American Style
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Robert Montgomery Presents

Robert Montgomery Presents

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Steve Allen Show

The Steve Allen Show