Robert Cummings Net Worth

#Fact1Wrote a book "How to Stay Young and Vital" about his healthy style of living.2Robert's maternal grandfather, George Michael Kraft, was a German immigrant. Robert's other ancestry was English and Irish.3His mother married his father 12 days after his birth.4Acting mentor and friend of Dwayne Hickman.5After guest-starring on The Love Boat (1977), he retired from acting at age 69.6His second ex-wife, Vivi Janiss, died in 1988.7Was a Boy Scout.8Was a lifelong staunch conservative Republican and anti-communist.9Son Tony Cummings is a former soap actor. He was best known for playing Rick Halloway on Another World (1964) in 1981.10Owned a hobby hardware store in Beverly Hills, California.11Beginning in 1946, he served as executive producer of United World Productions.12His The Bob Cummings Show (1955) co-star, Dwayne Hickman attended a parade and benefit show with Bob in Cummings' hometown of Joplin, Missouri.13Began his contract career for Paramount in 1935.14In 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.15Was among the first guests at Disneyland's grand opening in 1955.16Had appeared on a successful radio serial, "Those We Love", from 1938 to 1945, opposite Richard Cromwell, Francis X. Bushman and Nan Grey.17Met his second wife, Vivi Janiss, in the Broadway play "The Ziegfeld Follies".18Studied 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.19He had 7 hobbies: flying, partying, golfing, photography, jogging, swimming and spending time with his family.20Just 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.21Had his 80th birthday party just six months before his death.22On 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.23On Broadway, he obtained roles by faking a British accent and introducing himself as Blade Stanhope Conway, an Englishman.24Moved to Los Angeles in 1935, and broke into films by faking a Southern drawl and presenting himself as Brice Hutchens, a Texan.25Was good friends with Ann B. Davis and Dwayne Hickman, during and after The Bob Cummings Show (1955).26Best remembered by the public for his starring role as photographer Bob Collins on The Bob Cummings Show (1955).27His 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.28He was an Air Force officer while he was a senior in high school.29Was 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.30His 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.31His second series The Bob Cummings Show (1961) was canceled because it was too expensive.32His The Bob Cummings Show (1955) co-star, Dwayne Hickman, was a huge fan of Cummings' movies as a child in the 1940s.33Was also suffering from Parkinson's Disease at the time of his death.34Was 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].35Chosen 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.36According 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.37Not only was he a health food fanatic, but he often carried a small suitcase with him full of vitamin pills.38Godson of Orville Wright, an old family friend, who also taught him to fly. He piloted his own plane most of his life.39Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Sanctity.40Was a US Army Air Force pilot during World War II. He was stationed for a while at Oxnard, California.41Graduated from Joplin High School [1928]42In dramatic films he was billed in the credits as Robert Cummings; in lighter fare, often as Bob Cummings.