Star Facts
  • Category Motion Pictures

    Address 6816 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

  • Category Television

    Address 1718 Vine Street

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Robert Cummings
Born:
1910-06-09,
Joplin,
Missouri,
USA
Education:
Drury College, MA, Carnegie Institute of Technology, PA, & US Army Air Corps
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
-0001-11-30
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Robert Cummings

Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings, known professionally 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 and Dial M for Murder. Bob Cummings was born in Joplin, Missouri, a son of Dr. Charles Clarence Cummings and his wife Ruth Annabelle Kraft. His father was a surgeon, who was part of the original medical staff of St. John’s Hospital in Joplin. He was the founder of the Jasper County Tuberculosis Hospital in Webb City, Missouri. Cummings’ mother was an ordained minister of the Science of Mind.

While attending Joplin High School, Cummings was taught to fly by his godfather, Orville Wright. During high school Cummings would give Joplin residents rides in his plane for $5 per person.

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