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Robert Cummings
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Actor Born: June 9, 1910 in Joplin, MO Death: December 2, 1990 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:American actor "Robert Cummings" studied for an engineer's degree at several colleges before concentrating his energies at the American School of Dramatic Arts. After returning from a trip to England, he became possessed with the notion that he could best conquer Hollywood if he passed himself off as a British actor, so for a brief uncomfortable period he called himself Blade Stanhope Conway. The best he could get was an extra part in Laurel and Hardy's "Sons of the Desert" (1933); after that, he renamed himself Brice Hutchens, under which name he played on Broadway with a magic act in Ziegfeld Follies of 1934. As plain old "Robert Cummings", the actor made his film debut in Paramount's "So Red the Rose" (1935), in which he was killed off in the Civil War before the first reel was over. He finally got a meaty hysteria scene as a condemned prisoner in "The Accusing Finger" (1936) -- but thereafter... Full Biography
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