FrameThrower · Actors · Robert Cummings
Robert Cummings
3 films · 189 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1942–1964
Born 9 June 1910 · Joplin, Missouri, USA · died 2 December 1990
Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings was an American actor and comedian. He is known for his roles in Saboteur (1942) and Dial M for Murder (1954), both directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance in 1955. On February 8, 1960, he received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture and television industries.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 189 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1942–1964
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1955
- Aberconway Medal1984
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 189 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Robert takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 60% of their frames are night — the look of the work Robert takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 189 frames from Robert Cummings's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.