Robert Cummings

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. Durkin was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Cummings was married five times, and had seven children. Coogan was the only survivor of the accident. His last significant credit was the 1973 TV movie Partners in Crime, also starring Lee Grant. In 1935 he was travelling with his friend, the actor Jackie Coogan, and three other people including Coogan's father, when their vehicle was involved in a road accident in San Diego, California. He also spent a season starring in My Living Doll (1964), another sitcom. RKO began grooming him for a transition into more adult roles, and in his final film Chasing Yesterday (1935), he was billed as Trent Durkin.

That was followed by The New Bob Cummings Show, 1961-1962. He achieved another success in Hell's House (1932). 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). Under contract with RKO Studios he was cast in a series of "B" films in comedic roles that capitalized on his gangly appearance. Cummings began a long career on television in 1952 with the comedy My Hero. He entered films in 1930, and played the role of Huckleberry Finn in Tom Sawyer (1930), and Huckleberry Finn (1931). 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. Born Trent Bernard Durkin in New York, New York, Durkin began his acting career in theater while a child.

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). Junior Durkin (July 2, 1915 – May 4, 1935) was an American film actor. 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.