Robert Cummings
Born: 1910-06-10 Joplin, Missouri, USA
Died: 1990-12-02
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 (in our collection)
The Carpetbaggers
(1964)
What a Way to Go!
(1964)
Beach Party
(1963)
My Geisha
(1962)
Dial M for Murder
(1954)
Lucky Me
(1954)
Kings Row
(1942)
Saboteur
(1942)
The Devil and Miss Jones
(1941)
Moon Over Miami
(1941)