Robert Cummings
Sign in to saveAlso known as Bob Cummings, Blade Stanhope Conway, Bruce Hutchens
American actor (1910–1990)
OverviewAI-generated
Robert Cummings was a male artist from Australia, active in genres including new wave, rhythm and blues, rock, rockabilly, and western swing. He began his work period in 1933 and used the pseudonyms Blade Stanhope Conway and Brice Hutchens. He is recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.
Cummings has works listed in various databases, with five works in Crossref and twenty-one in Open Library. Notable titles include The Marines, Marine, Murder on a Queen, Into the Dark Void, and Rolling Thunder. He is referenced by 439 other encyclopedia articles.
He was born on either June 9, 1908, or June 9, 1910, and died on December 2, 1990. His height was recorded as 177. On Last.fm, he has 19 listeners and a playcount of 76.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 21
Top works
- The Marines
- Marine
- Murder on a Queen
- Into the Dark Void
- Rolling Thunder
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Australia
- Active from
- 1954-09-13
Discography
- Senso1984
- This Wonderful Life1986
- Lovetown1988
- A New Kind of Blue1989
- Good Humour1991
- Unguided Tour1992
- Falling Swinger1994
- Escapist1996
- Spiritual Bum1999
- Skeleton Key2001
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 76
Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings (June 9, 1910 – December 2, 1990), mostly known professionally as Robert Cummings but sometimes as Bob Cummings, was an American motion picture and television actor. Cummings performed mainly in comedies, but was effective in his few dramas, especially two Alfred Hitchcock films, Saboteur (1942) and Dial M for Murder (1954). <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Cummings">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,780x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,550x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,824x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,789x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,499x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings , ( 1910-06-09 ) June 9, 1910, Joplin, Missouri U.S.
- Died
- December 2, 1990 (1990-12-02) (aged 80), Los Angeles , California , U.S.
- Resting place
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Other names
- Bob Cummings, Blade Stanhope Conway, Bryce Hutchens
- Alma mater
- American Academy of Dramatic Arts
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1931–1990
- Political party
- Republican
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Joplin
- Place of death
- Woodland Hills
- Educated at
- Carnegie Institute of Technology
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- theatre
- Image
- Robert Cummings (1979).jpg
- Height
- 177
Show 11 more facts
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Commons category
- Robert Cummings
- date of death
- 1990-12-02
- Commons gallery
- Robert Cummings
- cause of death
- kidney failure
- date of birth
- 1910-06-09
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings
- start of work period
- 1933-00-00
- pseudonym
- Brice Hutchens
- writing language
- English language
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings (June 9, 1910 – December 2, 1990) was an American film and television actor who appeared in roles in comedy films such as The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and Princess O'Rourke (1943), and in dramatic films, especially two of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, Saboteur (1942) and Dial M for Murder (1954). He received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance in 1955. On February 8, 1960, he received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture and television industries, at 6816 Hollywood Boulevard and 1718 Vine Street. He used the stage name Robert Cummings from mid-1935 until the end of 1954 and was credited as Bob Cummings from 1955 until his death.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert Cummings” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.