Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings Net Worth

Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings Net Worth is
$1.7 Million

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Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings (June 9, 1910 – December 2, 1990), mostly known professionally as Robert Cummings but sometimes as Bob Cummings, was an American film and television actor.Cummings performed mainly in comedies, but was effective in his few dramas, especially two Alfred Hitchcock films, Saboteur (1942) and Dial M for Murder (1954).

Date Of Birth	June 9, 1910
Died	1990-12-02
Place Of Birth	Joplin, Missouri, USA
Height	5' 10" (1.78 m)
Profession	Actor, Director, Soundtrack
Education	American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Spouse	Emma Myers, Vivian Janis, Mary Elliott, Gina Fong, Martha Burzynski
Star Sign	Gemini

#	Trademark
1	A couple of his sitcoms focused on his real-life abilities in World War II

Title	Salary
Dial M for Murder (1954)	$25,000

#	Quote
1	If I have a problem I get expert counsel,then ask the opinion of a good psychic.
2	[speaking of his wife "Gee-Gee"] I just love my wife! She's brilliant! Half my age and twice as smart.
3	I always take my family with me. I'd die without them!
4	It's a hard life. Much harder than it looks. It can get to be lonely and frustrating. People have this idea of what luxury a star must have. Some towns are terrible.
5	[In 1978] I've been in this business 50 years and I'm a nervous wreck! I'm getting too old for all this excitement. I've already lost eight pounds from running around the stage. I'll just have to pray to St. Jude and I'm not even Catholic.
6	[When asked if he didn't want to go back to Hollywood] No, I wouldn't go back to California. I'm too old for that. Besides, the air there would kill me.
7	Unwind! Unwind from that? If the play closed tomorrow, it wouldn't ruin Bob Cummings. These people who claim they have to unwind by going somewhere and having a few drinks and losing a lot of sleep are crazy. It's a job. The curtain closes and you walk off the stage.
8	[on people who don't recognize him when they pass him on the street] I've signed everything anybody ever handed to me--wet paper napkins, beach balls . . . When you're the star of a show, you're on the go all day at TV programs, interviews, public appearances. We didn't get in from Orlando until 4 a.m. Thursday. The driver got lost and we spent two hours driving around. Then the storm and rain woke us up at 2 p.m. I haven't had time to eat breakfast yet and the show stars in a few hours.
9	You can accomplish anything you want, if you act as if it were already accomplished. Know what you want, where you are going. But don't tell anyone what you're constructing.
10	[In 1972] It was my dad's theory that nature usually knows best. It isn't so much what you eat as what you don't get when you eat.
11	[on the breakup of his first marriage] I was accused of being a vitamin addict, of eating 40 or 50 tablets a day. I said, "That's a dastardly lie, I take 140!".
12	[In 1970] I was born during the first month birth certificates were issued in Missouri and my dad wrote "Robert Orville Cummings" on the name line because that's what he'd decided to name me. Then mother looked at the birth certificate afterwards and said, "No, no, we talked about that, but we're going to name him after his father, Charles Clarence Cummings Jr.". So she took a pencil and scratched through the "Robert Orville" and added "Charles Clarence". She didn't leave any room for the surgical nurse so Sister Mary Alfonsas had to sign her name right under it . . . she was a food-nut nun my dad got started on health food and is over 100 years old today.
13	[about his birth] Dad delivered me and mother christened me an hour later, but dad [named] me after a cousin of mine, Orville Wright . . . who was my godfather. Dad has cured him of diverticulitis, ptomaine and barber's itch in 1909, when my mother was carrying me. Must be why I like to fly. I'll have been flying 44 years next March.
14	[In 1964, about Julie Newmar, who played a robot in his series My Living Doll (1964)] This is probably the most difficult role ever played by an actress. The character--if that's what you call it--she plays has no thoughts, no emotions, no desires, no ethics, no social conscience. It is very difficult because she cannot instigate anything and she cannot feel anything. She must divorce herself completely from her ego, which is the hardest thing in the world to do.
15	[In 1962, about doing a play] The main thing is to stay active, even if you are very bad. After all, an actor is a commodity. The things that are really important for him are his health--he has to be able to deliver the body; a knowledge of the law--there are so many loopholes in contracts; and last, I'm afraid, ability.
16	[Asked if he was upset by the cancellation of The Bob Cummings Show (1961)] No, we knew, by about the 15th show, that we had too much, that it was too expensive to do a full adventure show in a half-hour, and with airplanes.
17	[on his involvement in several business enterprises that he described as "practically catastrophic"] . . . an actor, when he's working, ceases to be a part of the world. He's on a sound stage from early morning [until] night. He loses track of what goes on outside. Elaborate practical matters, like having his car filled with gas, confuse him. Nothing exists but his own tight little corner. That's when he's working, I say. Of course, when he's not working, he's not an actor. He's a bum. So someone has to take care of the other part, and it has to be someone you can trust.
18	[In 1949] I figure producers are paying me a lot of money and I ought to dress well.
19	[complaining that none of the actor's wardrobe--theoretically a part of the tools of his job--is tax-deductible] Every year I used to take my clothes and still photos from my pictures to the Post Office building in Hollywood. I would explain to the income tax people how I used which suit in which picture. This year, they decided clothes weren't deductible, even though I have to dress well in my job.
20	I had to have a sharp wardrobe and a fancy car and foot the bill at the night clubs. And my date, who was earning 10 times as much as I was, would brag about how she borrowed her dress and furs from the studio.
21	The girls have it easy, everything they wear in pictures is suppled by the studio- their dress, stockings, shoes, underwear, jewelry, hair, even their falsies. They could arrive at the studio naked, if they cared to. But the actor has to pay for everything himself. He even has to bring his own toupee, if he wears one.
22	[on his lifelong devotion to healthy eating] I'd love to tell all those critics how well I feel today because of my diet. But they're all dead.

#	Fact
1	Wrote a book "How to Stay Young and Vital" about his healthy style of living.
2	Robert's maternal grandfather, George Michael Kraft, was a German immigrant. Robert's other ancestry was English and Irish.
3	His mother married his father 12 days after his birth.
4	Acting mentor and friend of Dwayne Hickman.
5	After guest-starring on The Love Boat (1977), he retired from acting at age 69.
6	His second ex-wife, Vivi Janiss, died in 1988.
7	Was a Boy Scout.
8	Was a lifelong staunch conservative Republican and anti-communist.
9	Son Tony Cummings is a former soap actor. He was best known for playing Rick Halloway on Another World (1964) in 1981.
10	Owned a hobby hardware store in Beverly Hills, California.
11	Beginning in 1946, he served as executive producer of United World Productions.
12	His The Bob Cummings Show (1955) co-star, Dwayne Hickman attended a parade and benefit show with Bob in Cummings' hometown of Joplin, Missouri.
13	Began his contract career for Paramount in 1935.
14	In 1942 he joined the United States Army Air Force and was made a flight instructor. He had worked in that capacity for many years prior to enlisting.
15	Was among the first guests at Disneyland's grand opening in 1955.
16	Had appeared on a successful radio serial, "Those We Love", from 1938 to 1945, opposite Richard Cromwell, Francis X. Bushman and Nan Grey.
17	Met his second wife, Vivi Janiss, in the Broadway play "The Ziegfeld Follies".
18	Studied briefly at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, but his love of flying caused him to transfer to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied aeronautical engineering for a year before being forced to drop out for financial reasons, his family having lost heavily in the 1929 stock market crash.
19	He had 7 hobbies: flying, partying, golfing, photography, jogging, swimming and spending time with his family.
20	Just before his death, he joined Art Linkletter and former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, at the 35th anniversary celebration of Disneyland, all reprising their appearances at the grand opening of the amusement park.
21	Had his 80th birthday party just six months before his death.
22	On The Bob Cummings Show (1955), he played a bachelor / studio photographer who photographed and dated the world's most beautiful models. In real life, he had been married and divorced several times.
23	On Broadway, he obtained roles by faking a British accent and introducing himself as Blade Stanhope Conway, an Englishman.
24	Moved to Los Angeles in 1935, and broke into films by faking a Southern drawl and presenting himself as Brice Hutchens, a Texan.
25	Was good friends with Ann B. Davis and Dwayne Hickman, during and after The Bob Cummings Show (1955).
26	Best remembered by the public for his starring role as photographer Bob Collins on The Bob Cummings Show (1955).
27	His father, Dr. Charles Clarence Cummings Sr., was a surgeon. He was part of the original staff of St. John's Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. He was the founder of the Jasper County Tuberculosis Hospital in Webb City, Missouri. His mother, Ruth Annabelle Kraft, was an ordained minister of the Science of Mind.
28	He was an Air Force officer while he was a senior in high school.
29	Was good friends with Rosemary DeCamp, Julie Bishop, Ray Milland, Norman Lloyd, Lucille Ball, Paul Henning, Dinah Shore, George Burns, Bob Hope, 'Frank Sinatra (I)', Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Art Linkletter, Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn and Raymond Burr.
30	His father wanted to name him Robert Orville Cummings, after his godfather, Orville Wright. His mother was against it. She wanted him to be named Charles Clarence Cummings Jr., after his father. They finally agreed on Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings.
31	His second series The Bob Cummings Show (1961) was canceled because it was too expensive.
32	His The Bob Cummings Show (1955) co-star, Dwayne Hickman, was a huge fan of Cummings' movies as a child in the 1940s.
33	Was also suffering from Parkinson's Disease at the time of his death.
34	Was accused by his estranged wife, Mary Elliott, of using the drug methedrine or "speed" and carrying on an adulterous affair with his former secretary, and future wife, Regina Fong [29 October 1969].
35	Chosen by producer John Wayne as his co-star in The High and the Mighty (1954), though director William A. Wellman replaced him with Robert Stack.
36	According to an article in "Flying Magazine", when the government began licensing flight instructors, he received flight instructor certificate #1--the first instructor to receive a license.
37	Not only was he a health food fanatic, but he often carried a small suitcase with him full of vitamin pills.
38	Godson of Orville Wright, an old family friend, who also taught him to fly. He piloted his own plane most of his life.
39	Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Sanctity.
40	Was a US Army Air Force pilot during World War II. He was stationed for a while at Oxnard, California.
41	Graduated from Joplin High School [1928]
42	In dramatic films he was billed in the credits as Robert Cummings; in lighter fare, often as Bob Cummings.

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Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color	1976-1986	TV Series	Host / Narrator / Himself / ...
The Love Boat	1979	TV Series	Eliott Smith
Three on a Date	1978	TV Movie	Cab Driver (as Bob Cummings)
Love, American Style	1969-1973	TV Series	Walding (segment "Love and the Secret Spouse") / Grandpa (segment "Love and the Second Time") / Bert Palmer (segment "Love and the Pill")
Partners in Crime	1973	TV Movie	Ralph Elsworth
The Great American Beauty Contest	1973	TV Movie	Dan Carson (as Bob Cummings)
Here's Lucy	1972-1973	TV Series	Robert Henning / Bob Collins
Bewitched	1971	TV Series	Roland Berkley
Arnie	1971	TV Series	Hollingsworth
Here Come the Brides	1970	TV Series	Jack Crosse
Green Acres	1970	TV Series	Mort Warner
Gidget Grows Up	1969	TV Movie	Russ Lawrence (as Bob Cummings)
The Flying Nun	1969	TV Series	Father Walter Larson
Five Golden Dragons	1967		Bob Mitchell (as Bob Cummings)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	1964-1967	TV Series	Robert Silbey / Harvey Hines
Stagecoach	1966		Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
Promise Her Anything	1966		Dr. Philip Brock (as Bob Cummings)
My Living Doll	1964-1965	TV Series	Dr. Robert McDonald
What a Way to Go!	1964		Dr. Victor Stephanson (as Bob Cummings)
The Carpetbaggers	1964		Dan Pierce (as Bob Cummings)
The Great Adventure	1964	TV Series	Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse
Beach Party	1963		Professor Sutwell (as Bob Cummings)
The Dick Powell Theatre	1963	TV Series	J.F. Kelly
The DuPont Show of the Week	1962	TV Series	Alabama
The Bob Cummings Show	1961-1962	TV Series	Bob Carson
My Geisha	1962		Bob Moore
Zane Grey Theater	1960	TV Series	Lt. Charles Gatewood
The Twilight Zone	1960	TV Series	Capt. James Embry
The Bob Cummings Show	1955-1959	TV Series	Bob Collins / Grandpa Josh Collins / Josh Collins / ...
Playhouse 90	1958	TV Series	Colonel Culver
Schlitz Playhouse	1957	TV Series	Spencer O. Spencer
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show	1954-1957	TV Series	Bob Collins / Bob Cummings
General Electric Theater	1957	TV Series	Russ Baker
Studio One in Hollywood	1954-1956	TV Series	George Lumley / Juror #8
How to Be Very, Very Popular	1955		Fillmore 'Wedge' Wedgewood
Best Foot Forward	1954	TV Movie	Jack Haggerty
Max Liebman Spectaculars	1954	TV Series
The Elgin Hour	1954	TV Series	Jeff Clark
Justice	1954	TV Series
Dial M for Murder	1954		Mark Halliday
Lucky Me	1954		Dick Carson
Campbell Summer Soundstage	1954	TV Series
Marry Me Again	1953		Bill
My Hero	1952-1953	TV Series	Robert Beanblossom / Bob Beanblossom / Robert S. Beanblossom / ...
Lux Video Theatre	1951-1952	TV Series	Farley / Wally
Robert Montgomery Presents	1952	TV Series
The First Time	1952		Joe Bennet
The Barefoot Mailman	1951		Sylvanus Hurley
Somerset Maugham TV Theatre	1951	TV Series
For Heaven's Sake	1950		Jeff Bolton
Sure As Fate	1950	TV Series
The Petty Girl	1950		George Petty aka Andrew 'Andy' Tapp
Paid in Full	1950		Bill Prentice
Tell It to the Judge	1949		Peter B. 'Pete' Webb
Free for All	1949		Christopher Parker
Reign of Terror	1949		Charles D'Aubigny
The Accused	1949		Warren Ford
Let's Live a Little	1948		Duke Crawford
Sleep, My Love	1948		Bruce Elcott
The Lost Moment	1947		Lewis Venable
Heaven Only Knows	1947		Michael, aka Mike
The Chase	1946		Chuck Scott
The Bride Wore Boots	1946		Jeff Warren
You Came Along	1945		Maj. Bob Collins
Princess O'Rourke	1943		Eddie O'Rourke
Flesh and Fantasy	1943		Michael (Episode 1)
Forever and a Day	1943		Ned Trimble
Between Us Girls	1942		Jimmy Blake
Saboteur	1942		Barry
Kings Row	1942		Parris Mitchell
It Started with Eve	1941		Jonathan 'Johnny' Reynolds Jr.
Moon Over Miami	1941		Jeffrey Boulton
The Devil and Miss Jones	1941		Joe
Free and Easy	1941		Max Clemington
One Night in the Tropics	1940		Steve Harper
Spring Parade	1940		Corporal Harry Marten
Private Affairs	1940		Jimmy Nolan
And One Was Beautiful	1940		Ridley Crane
Charlie McCarthy, Detective	1939		Scotty Hamilton
Everything Happens at Night	1939		Ken Morgan
Rio	1939		Bill Gregory
The Under-Pup	1939		Dennis King
Three Smart Girls Grow Up	1939		Harry Loren
I Stand Accused	1938		Frederick A. Davis
Touchdown, Army	1938		Cadet Jimmy Howal
The Texans	1938		Alan Sanford
You and Me	1938		Jim
College Swing	1938		Radio Announcer
Wells Fargo	1937		Dan Trimball - Prospector
Sophie Lang Goes West	1937		Curley Griffin
Souls at Sea	1937		George Martin
The Last Train from Madrid	1937		Juan Ramos
Arizona Mahoney	1936		Phillip Randall
Hideaway Girl	1936		Mike Winslow
The Accusing Finger	1936		Jimmy Ellis
Hollywood Boulevard	1936		Jay Wallace
Three Cheers for Love	1936		Jimmy Tuttle
Border Flight	1936		Lt. Bob Dixon
Forgotten Faces	1936		Clinton Faraday
Desert Gold	1936		Fordyce 'Ford' Mortimer
Millions in the Air	1935		Jimmy
The Virginia Judge	1935		Jim Preston
So Red the Rose	1935		George Pendleton
Sons of the Desert	1933		Steamship Announcement Witness (uncredited)
Seasoned Greetings	1933	Short	Lita's Beau / Husband in Sunny Weather Number (uncredited)

Director

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Bob Cummings Show	1957-1959	TV Series 44 episodes

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
My Geisha	1962	performer: "MADAMA BUTTERFLY" Sequences
Best Foot Forward	1954	TV Movie performer: "BUCKLE DOWN WINSOCKI"
Lucky Me	1954	performer: "Lucky Me", "Love You Dearly"
The Petty Girl	1950	performer: "I Loves Ya" - uncredited
Kings Row	1942	performer: "Fantasie Impromptu in C Sharp Minor, Op. 66" 1834, "Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S.124" 1830+ - uncredited
Moon Over Miami	1941	"You Started Something" 1941 / performer: "You Started Something" 1941
Millions in the Air	1935	performer: "Love Is Just Around the Corner"

Producer

Title	Year	Status	Character
My Hero		TV Series producer - 3 episodes, 1952 executive producer - 1 episode, 1953
Let's Live a Little	1948	producer

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
My Hero		TV Series 1 episode, 1952 written by - 2 episodes, 1952 writer - 1 episode, 1952

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Mike Douglas Show	1963-1971	TV Series	Himself - Co-Host
Mantrap	1971	TV Series	Himself
The Hollywood Squares	1970	TV Series	Guest Appearance
The Joey Bishop Show	1969	TV Series	Himself
What's My Line?	1950-1964	TV Series	Himself - Mystery Guest / Himself - Guest Panelist / Himself - Mystery Guest #2
The Beverly Hillbillies	1964	TV Series	Himself
The Hollywood Palace	1964	TV Series	Himself - Host / Himself
The Jack Paar Tonight Show	1960-1962	TV Series	Himself - Guest Host / Himself
The Tonight Show	1962	TV Series	Himself - Guest Host / Himself
Here's Hollywood	1961	TV Series	Himself
What About Linda?	1961	TV Special	Himself
CBS Fall Preview Special: Seven Wonderful Nights	1961	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Frances Langford Show	1960	TV Series	Himself
Gala Day at Disneyland	1960	Short	Himself
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood	1960	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour	1959	TV Series	Himself
Disneyland '59	1959	TV Movie documentary	Himself (as Bob Cummings)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	1957-1959	TV Series	Himself
I've Got a Secret	1959	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The George Burns Show	1958	TV Series	Himself
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show	1957-1958	TV Series	Himself - Love That Bob / Himself - Guest
Person to Person	1957	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Bob Hope Show	1956	TV Series	Himself
This Is Your Life	1956	TV Series	Himself
Inside Beverly Hills	1956	TV Movie	Himself
The Colgate Comedy Hour	1950-1955	TV Series	Himself - Actor / Himself
Dateline: Disneyland	1955	TV Special documentary	Himself - Host
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color	1955	TV Series	Himself
Sheilah Graham in Hollywood	1955	TV Series	Himself
The Name's the Same	1954	TV Series	Himself
The Linkletter Show	1954	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Texaco Star Theatre	1953-1954	TV Series	Himself - Comic Actor
Robert Montgomery Presents	1952	TV Series	Himself - Guest Host
All Star Revue	1952	TV Series	Himself - Guest Actor
Your Show of Shows	1950-1951	TV Series	Himself - Guest Performer
Ford Star Revue	1951	TV Series	Himself
Breakdowns of 1942	1942	Short	Himself (uncredited)
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special	1990	TV Movie	Himself
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbara Stanwyck	1987	TV Special documentary	Himself
The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards	1986	TV Special	Himself
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan	1985	TV Special	Himself
Your Choice for the Film Awards	1983	TV Special	Himself - Presenter
The 24th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards	1972	TV Special	Himself - Presenter

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Pioneers of Television	2014	TV Mini-Series documentary	Barry - Motion Picture Saboteur
Disneyland: Secrets, Stories, & Magic	2007	Video documentary	Himself - at Disneyland Grand Opening
Paul Henning & The Hillbillies	2005	Video documentary	Bob Collins
Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years	2005	Documentary short	Himself (uncredited)
Hitchcock and Dial M	2004	Video documentary short	Mark Halliday (uncredited)
I Love Lucy's 50th Anniversary Special	2001	TV Movie documentary
Hollywood My Home Town	1965	Documentary	Himself
Hollywood Without Make-Up	1963	Documentary	Himself
The Ed Sullivan Show	1955	TV Series	Himself

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Motion Picture	On 8 February 1960. At 6816 Hollywood Blvd.
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Television	On 8 February 1960. At 1718 Vine Street.
1955	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Best Actor in a Single Performance	Studio One (1948)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1959	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Best Actor in a Leading Role (Continuing Character) in a Comedy Series	The Bob Cummings Show (1955)
1958	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Best Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic or Comedy Series	The Bob Cummings Show (1955)
1957	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Best Continuing Performance by a Comedian in a Series	The Bob Cummings Show (1955)
1956	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Best Actor - Continuing Performance	The Bob Cummings Show (1955)
1955	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Best Actor Starring in a Regular Series	My Hero (1952)

Known for movies

Robert Beanblossom / Bob Beanblossom / Robert S. Beanblossom / Bob S. Beanblossom / Don Sherlock Holmes

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Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings Net Worth

Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings Net Worth is
$1.7 Million