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Date of Birth

10 June 1910, Joplin, Missouri, USA

Date of Death

2 December 1990, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (kidney failure)

Birth Name

Charles Clarence Cummings

Nickname

Bob

Height

5' 10" (1.78 m)

Mini 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).

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Spouse

Martha "Jane" Burzynski	(1989 - 2 December 1990) (his death)
Regina Fong	(27 March 1971 - ?) (divorced) 2 children
Mary Elliott	(3 March 1945 - 15 January 1970) (divorced) 5 children
Vivi Janiss	(1933 - ?) (divorced)
Emma Myers	(1931 - 1933) (divorced)

Trivia

In dramatic films he was billed in the credits as Robert Cummings; in lighter fare, often as Bob Cummings.

Graduated from Joplin High School [1928]

During WWII, as a pilot, Cummings was once stationed at Oxnard, California.

Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Sanctity.

Godson of Orville Wright, an old family friend, who also taught him to fly. He piloted his own plane most of his life.

Not only was he a health food fanatic, but he often carried a small suitcase with him full of vitamin pills.

According to an article in Flying Magazine, when the government began licensing flight instructors, Bob received flight instructor certificate number "1", the first instructor to receive a license.

Chosen by producer John Wayne as his co-star in The High and the Mighty (1954), though director William A. Wellman replaced him with Robert Stack.

Personal Quotes

[on his lifelong devotion to healthy eating] I'd love to tell all those critics how well I feel today because of my diet. But they're all dead.

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