Robert Cummings
Acting
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.
Born: June 9, 1910
Place of Birth: Joplin, Missouri, USA
Known For
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. It was the successor to the classic comedy, I Love Lucy, and featured the same major cast members. The production schedule avoided the grind of a regular weekly series. Desilu produced the show, which was mostly filmed at their Los Angeles studios with occasional on-location shoots at Lake Arrowhead, Las Vegas and Sun Valley, Idaho. CBS reran the show under the "Lucy-Desi" title during the summers of 1962-1967, after which it went into syndication.
The Twilight Zone
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Dial M for Murder
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.
Bewitched
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
The Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
The Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
The Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
The Devil and Miss Jones
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.
Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Filmography
as Cab Driver
as Eliott Smith
as Ralph Elsworth
as Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
as Russell Lawrence
as Grandpa
as Bob Collins
as Robert Henning
as Bob Mitchell
as Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
as Dr. Philip Brock
as Mort Warner
as Dr. Robert McDonald
as Dr. Victor Stephanson
as Dan Pierce
as Self
as Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse
as Professor Sutwell
as Self
as Self
as Bob Moore
as Self - Co-Host
as Self
as Self
as James Embry
as Self
as Colonel Culver
as Robert Cummings
as Self
as Lt. Charles Gatewood
as Self - Guest
as Self - Love That Bob
as Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood
as Bob Collins
as Self - Host / Narrator / Interviewer
as Self - Host / Narrator / Self
as Juror #8
as Mark Halliday
as Dick Carson
as Bill
as Russ Baker
as Joe Bennett
as Sylvanus Hurley
as Spencer O. Spencer
as Jeff Bolton
as Self
as George Petty, aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp
as Self
as Bill Prentice
as Self
as Self - Panelist
as Sawyer
as Pete Webb
as Christopher Parker
as Charles D'Aubigny
as Warren Ford
as Duke Crawford
as Juror #8
as George Lumley
as Bruce Elcott
as Lewis Venable
as Michael, aka Mike
as Chuck Scott
as Jeff Warren
as Maj. Bob Collins
as Self - Co-Host
as Michael (segment 1)
as Eddie O'Rourke
as Ned
as Self
as Jimmy Blake
as Barry Kane
as Parris Mitchell
as Johnny Reynolds Jr.
as Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II
as Joe O'Brien
as Max Clemington
as Steve Harper
as Corporal Harry Marten
as Jimmy Nolan
as Ridley Crane
as Scotty Hamilton
as Ken Morgan
as Bill Gregory
as Dennis Lane
as Harry Loren
as Frederick A. Davis
as Alan Sanford
as Jim
as Radio Announcer
as Dan Trimball, prospector
as Curley Griffin
as George Martin
as Juan Ramos
as Phillip Randall
as Mike Winslow
as Jimmy Ellis
as Jay Wallace
as Lt. Bob Dixon
as Clinton Faraday
as Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer
as George Pendleton
as Jim Preston
as Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
as Husband (uncredited)
as Friar Lawrence