Vancouver Sun (03/Dec/1990) - Veteran TV actor Bob Cummings dies

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• newspaper: Vancouver Sun (03/Dec/1990)
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder (1954), Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings

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Veteran TV actor Bob Cummings dies

Robert Cummings, who starred in more than 100 films and played a swinging bachelor in the 1950s sitcom The Bob Cummings Show, has died at age 80.

The actor, who had Parkinson's disease, died Saturday at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills of kidney failure and complications from pneumonia, said hospital representative Louella Benson.

Most of his roles were light comedies but included some serious portrayals, such as in King's Row and in Dial M for Murder, Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 thriller, in which he played Grace Kelly's murderous husband.

He entered the burgeoning TV industry in the 1950s, appearing in dramas and his own shows. The Bob Cummings Show was probably the closest thing to a sex comedy on television at the time.

On The Bob Cummings Show, which ran as a sitcom on NBC and CBS from 1955 to 1959, he played Bob Collins, a photographer who squired beautiful models around town. The series was known as Love that Bob in syndication.

In 1954, he won an Emmy as best actor for Twelve Angry Men.