Nicholas Clay

. 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. He died from cancer in London. Cummings was married five times, and had seven children. In the last years of his life he taught drama at the Actors Centre and the Academy of Live and Performing Arts, and also worked in association with RADA, generally in the role of promoting the organisation, or providing advice to acting students. His last significant credit was the 1973 TV movie Partners in Crime, also starring Lee Grant. He continued working regularly on stage and appeared in a number of made for television movies and mini-series. He also spent a season starring in My Living Doll (1964), another sitcom.

Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981), and Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun (1982), the latter reuniting him with his The Misanthrope co-star Diana Rigg. That was followed by The New Bob Cummings Show, 1961-1962. H. 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 most widely seen screen performance was as Lancelot in the 1981 film Excalibur, and he also appeared in the film versions of D. Cummings began a long career on television in 1952 with the comedy My Hero. Among his successes was The Misanthrope, which led Clay to the United States, where he also played this role on Broadway in 1975. 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.

He was cast in several of Laurence Olivier's Old Vic productions and during the decade came to be regarded as one of British theatres most promosing actors. 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 and also appeared in several West End theatre productions. He achieved stardom in 1939 in Three Smart Girls Grow Up opposite Deanna Durbin. Born in London, England, Clay studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and began his acting career in the early 1970s with small parts in film and television. In the 1930s Cummings worked (under his own name) as a contract player and appeared in a number of minor roles. Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay (September 18, 1946 - May 25 - 2000) was a British actor. 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.