Irving Caminsky[1] (October 9, 1888 – April 18, 1959) was an American movie actor and director.

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Irving Cummings
Cummings in 1922
Born	Irving Caminsky (1888-10-09)October 9, 1888 New York City, U.S.
Died	April 18, 1959(1959-04-18) (aged 70) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Film director, actor
Years active	1903–1959
Spouse	Ruth Sinclair (m.1917)
Children	Irving Cummings Jr.

Career

Born in New York City,[1] Cummings started his acting career at age 16 in Diplomacy.[2] His Broadway, performances included In the Long Run (1909) and Object -- Matrimony (1916).[3]

Acting in the Proctor Stock Company, Cummings appeared with Lillian Russell and other actresses.[2]

He entered into movies in 1909,^{[citation needed]} acting with the P. A. Powers company in Mount Vernon, New York,[4] and quickly became a popular leading man. Few of the films he made as an actor are easily available, except for Buster Keaton's first feature film, The Saphead (1920), in which Cummings plays a crooked stockbroker and Fred Niblo's film Sex (1920), one of the first films to depict a new phenomenon in 1920s America, the Flapper. Both films are readily available on home video, as well as The Round-Up (1920), a Western drama starring Roscoe Arbuckle (with the famous tagline "Nobody loves a fat man") and featuring Wallace Beery. Around that time, he started to direct action movies and occasional comedies.

In 1934, Cummings directed Grand Canary, and in 1929, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his direction of In Old Arizona.

Cummings was known for the big splashy 1930s Technicolor musicals with popular leading ladies such as Betty Grable, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, and Shirley Temple (Little Miss Broadway, 1938) he directed at 20th Century Fox.

Personal life and death

Cummings was married to Ruth Sinclair, and they had a son, screenwriter and producer Irving Cummings Jr.[2]

On April 18, 1959, Cummings died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital[2] of a heart attack in Hollywood, California, at age 70.[1]

Recognition

Cummings has a star at 6816 Hollywood Boulevard on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.[5] In 1943, as part of the 50th anniversary of the birth of the motion picture industry, Cummings was awarded the Thomas A. Edison Foundation Gold Medal for outstanding achievement in the arts and sciences.[2]

Filmography

Actor

Director

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Irving Cummings.

• Irving Cummings at IMDb
• Irving Cummings at the Internet Broadway Database

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