Irving Caminsky (October 9, 1888 â€" April 18, 1959) was an American
movie actor and director.Cummings was born in New York City. He was
the father of the screenwriter and producer Irving Cummings
Jr.Cummings started his acting career in his late teens on Broadway
stage, performing in In the Long Run (1909) and Object -- Matrimony
(1916). He appeared with Lillian Russell.He entered into movies in
1909, acting with the P. A. Powers company in Mount Vernon, New York,
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.
movie actor and director.Cummings was born in New York City. He was
the father of the screenwriter and producer Irving Cummings
Jr.Cummings started his acting career in his late teens on Broadway
stage, performing in In the Long Run (1909) and Object -- Matrimony
(1916). He appeared with Lillian Russell.He entered into movies in
1909, acting with the P. A. Powers company in Mount Vernon, New York,
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.
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