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  1. Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings (June 9, 1910 – December 2, 1990) was an American film and television actor who appeared in roles in comedy films such as The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and Princess O'Rourke (1943), and in dramatic films, especially two of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, Saboteur (1942) and Dial M for Murder (1954).

  2. Robert Cummings. Actor: Dial M for Murder. Effective light comedian of '30s and '40s films and '50s and '60s TV series, Robert Cummings was renowned for his eternally youthful looks (which he attributed to a strict vitamin and health-food diet). He was educated at Carnegie Tech and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Deciding that Broadway producers would be more interested in an upper ...

    • June 9, 1910
    • December 2, 1990
  3. Robert Cummings. Actor: Dial M for Murder. Effective light comedian of '30s and '40s films and '50s and '60s TV series, Robert Cummings was renowned for his eternally youthful looks (which he attributed to a strict vitamin and health-food diet).

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    • Joplin, Missouri, USA
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    • Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
  4. Dec 3, 1990 · A vociferous health food and vitamin devotee, Cummings prided himself on looking much younger than his years. The actor was born Clarence Robert Orville Cummings on June 10, 1910, in Joplin, Mo.

  5. Robert Cummings (born June 10, 1908, Joplin, Mo., U.S.—died Dec. 2, 1990, Woodland Hills, Calif.) was an American actor who starred in motion pictures and television. Cummings studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and Drury College before assuming false identities in order to become an actor. He won his first Broadway stage role in ...

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  7. Dec 4, 1990 · The actor, whose original name was Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings, was born on June 9, 1908, in Joplin, Mo., according to major reference works, although he later gave the year as 1910.

  8. Cummings was born June 10, 1910, in Joplin, Missouri, and he died of kidney failure December 2, 1990, in Woodland Hills, California. He is interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Sanctity. Effective light comedian of '30s and '40s films and '50s and '60s TV series, Robert Cummings was renowned for ...

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