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Robert Cummings

Robert Cummings

Acting
09 Jun 1910
02 Dec 1990
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. Cummin...

Also Known As

Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings, Bob Cummings, Blade Stanhope Conway, Bruce Hutchens, Роберт Каммингс

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