Lee Van Cleef

He also appeared as a villainous swindler in the Bonanza episode, The Bloodline (December 31, 1960). He was an advocate for healthy diet and authored the 1960 book, Stay Young and Vital. He died of Parkinsons disease in 1990 and is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. Van Cleef also appeared in John Carpenter's cult hit Escape from New York. Cummings was married five times, and had seven children. He appeared with Clint Eastwood in For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. His last significant credit was the 1973 TV movie Partners in Crime, also starring Lee Grant. His first film was the classic Western High Noon, in which he played a villain. He also spent a season starring in My Living Doll (1964), another sitcom.

Van Cleef served in the United States Navy during World War II and became an actor after a brief career as an accountant. That was followed by The New Bob Cummings Show, 1961-1962. However, Van Cleef occasionally played heroes. He was in the first performance of Twelve Angry Men to be televised, a live production that aired in 1955, and received an Emmy award for his role as Juror Number Eight. Beginning in 1955 and continuing through 1959, Cummings starred in his own sitcom, The Bob Cummings Show (shown in reruns as Love That Bob). His sharp features and piercing eyes made him an ideal "bad guy". Cummings began a long career on television in 1952 with the comedy My Hero. Lee Van Cleef (January 9, 1925 - December 16, 1989) was a movie actor, who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures. He served duty at a base in Oxnard, California during World War II, and later was a pilot in the United States Air Force Reserve.

His many film comedies also include: The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) with Jean Arthur, and The Bride Wore Boots (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Cummings gave memorable performances in three notable dramas: Kings Row (1942), Saboteur (1942), and Dial M for Murder (1954). He achieved stardom in 1939 in Three Smart Girls Grow Up opposite Deanna Durbin. In the 1930s Cummings worked (under his own name) as a contract player and appeared in a number of minor roles. He had a brief career on Broadway under the stage name Blade Stanhope Conway, a supposed Englishman, before moving to Hollywood, California, first acting under the name and persona of Bruce Hutchens, wealthy Texan.

He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. While attending high school there he was taught to fly by his godfather, Orville Wright. Cummings was born in Joplin, Missouri. He chiefly performed in comic roles but was effective in his few dramas, especially two Alfred Hitchcock films, Saboteur and Dial M for Murder.

Robert Cummings (June 10, 1908 - December 2, 1990), also known as Bob Cummings, was an American motion picture and television actor.