Robert Cummings

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AKA: Bob Cummings, Brice Hutchens, Blade Stanhope Conway, Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 06/09/1910
Birthplace: Joplin, Missouri, USA
Death Date: 12/01/1990

biography

Amiable leading man who hit his peak in the early 1940s. Perennially youthful, Cummings started his film career in light comedies but proved his dramatic talents in the two Hitchcock films in which he starred: as the naive, innocent aircraft worker in "Saboteur" (1942) and "Dial M For Murder" (1954) as well as Sam Wood's "King's Row" (1942) and Martin Gabel's "The Lost Moment" (1947).

Although he appeared in dramatic roles in many of the anthology series of early TV and won an Emmy for his starring performance in Reginald Rose's drama "12 Angry Men" (1954), Cummings was best known as the Continued

Credits

Mark Halliday
1999
Dr Peter Brock
1966
Actor
1942
Mr Gatewood
Doctor Steffanson
Bob Moore
Dan Pierce
Dick Carson

milestones

Year
Milestone
1931 
Broadway debut as Blade Stanhope Conway
1935 
Film acting debut in "So Red the Rose"
1939 
Began playing leading roles in features (date approximate)
 
Served as flight instructor in WWII
1952 
TV series debut in "My Hero"
Continued

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