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Peggy Cummins is a Actor British born on 18 december 1925 at Prestatyn (United-kingdom)

Peggy Cummins

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Birth name Augusta Margaret Diane Fuller
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 december 1925 at Prestatyn (United-kingdom)
Death 29 december 2017 (at 92 years)

Peggy Cummins (born 18 December 1925) is a retired Welsh-born Irish actress, best known for her performance in Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy (1949), playing a trigger-happy femme fatale who robs banks with her lover (played by John Dall).

Biography

Cummins had several suitors in Hollywood. She briefly dated Howard Hughes, and also future American president John F. Kennedy just before he was elected to his first Congressional seat in 1946. Huntington Hartford also pursued her.

In 1954, she became the First Honorary Commander of the 582d Air Resupply Squadron at RAF Molesworth, England to be designated by the United States Air Force Squadron.

She was married to Derek Dunnett (William Herbert Derek Dunnett) from 1950 until his death in 2000; and had two children with him, a boy, 1954, and a girl, 1962. Her husband, who came from a wealthy family, was born in Epsom, Surrey, England on 9 February 1921 and died in East Sussex, England on 10 July 2000.

Cummins' film career ended in 1961 and she lived in retirement in East Sussex, England. During the 1970s Cummins was very active in a national charity, Stars Organisation for Spastics, raising money and chairing the management committee of a holiday centre for children with disabilities in Sussex. The charity, known as SOS, became an independent registered charity in 2001 and in 2008 changed its name to Stars Foundation for Cerebral Palsy. Cummins is a Trustee of the charity which is run entirely by volunteers and raises funds for communication and mobility aids for people with cerebral palsy. She now lives in London. On 25 January 2013, Cummins was honored at the Noir City Film Festival at the Castro Theater in San Francisco with a screening of a restored print of Gun Crazy.

Usually with

Val Guest
Val Guest
(3 films)
Joan Sims
Joan Sims
(5 films)
Ronald Adam
Ronald Adam
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Peggy Cummins (27 films)

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Actress

In the Doghouse, 1h35
Directed by Darcy Conyers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Leslie Phillips, Hattie Jacques, Peggy Cummins, James Booth, Joan Hickson, Colin Gordon
Roles Sally Huxley
Rating60% 3.0057753.0057753.0057753.0057753.005775
A newly qualified vet with a heart of gold takes over an old practice and becomes rivals with another vet.
Dentist in the Chair, 1h24
Directed by Don Chaffey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Bob Monkhouse, Ronnie Stevens, Peggy Cummins, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Vincent Ball
Roles Peggy Travers
Rating50% 2.5437152.5437152.5437152.5437152.543715
Two dental students, David Cookson (Monkhouse) and Brian Dexter (Ronnie Stevens) become mixed up in the misadventures of a thief, Sam Field (played by Kenneth Connor), when he tries to sell them stolen dental equipment.
The Captain's Table, 1h30
Directed by Jack Lee
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, James Hayter, Donald Sinden, Nadia Gray, Maurice Denham
Roles Mrs. Judd
Rating59% 2.9526452.9526452.9526452.9526452.952645
After serving all his working life with the 'South Star' line, exclusively in cargo ships, Albert Ebbs is finally given command (abeit temporarily) of the SS Queen Adelaide, a cruise liner sailing from London to Sydney. An excellent seaman. he finds that he now has many social obligations that he does not have the skills to fulfill. He must preside at the Captain's Table, host cocktail parties, judge beauty contests and dance with the lady passengers. He must also cope with amorous widows, young couples who want him to marry them and a blustering ex-major who claims to have the ear of the Chairman of the shipping line.
Carry on Admiral
Directed by Val Guest
Genres Comedy
Actors David Tomlinson, Peggy Cummins, Joan Sims, Eunyce Gayson, A. E. Matthews, Reginald Beckwith
Roles Susan Lashwood
Rating53% 2.670072.670072.670072.670072.67007
In the course of a drunken reunion, two old friends (one a junior Government minister, the other a Royal Navy officer in uniform about to take command for the first time) switch clothes before passing out. Next morning, their changed clothes result in a series of cases of mistaken identity. The film follows the efforts of each to reunite himself with his own destiny.
Hell Drivers, 1h48
Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Trucker films, Road movies
Actors Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, David McCallum, Sean Connery
Roles Lucy, Hawlett Trucking Secretary
Rating71% 3.595063.595063.595063.595063.59506
Tom Yately, just released from prison, is determined to start a new life and he gets a job as a driver at Hawletts, a haulage company that transports loads of ballast gravel from a nearby quarry. The truck-drivers are offered bonuses by the agent Cartley for delivering their loads at dangerously high speeds along narrow roads. Tom is accepted by the other drivers except Red, the foreman and head driver and also a violent bully. Tom soon becomes friends with Gino, an Italian driver who is in love with Cartley's secretary Lucy. Red offers a cash bonus to any driver who can make more runs than him and Tom is determined to try.
Night of the Demon, 1h35
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler, Liam Redmond
Roles Joanna Harrington
Rating73% 3.6960553.6960553.6960553.6960553.696055
In England, Professor Harrington (Maurice Denham) visits his rival, Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis). Harrington promises to cancel an investigation of Karswell's involvement in Satanism if Karswell will rescind a threat he has made against Harrington. After learning that a parchment given to Harrington has disintegrated, Karswell glances at the clock and ushers Harrington out, promising to do all that he can. As Harrington drives home, a gigantic demon materialises in the woods and pursues him. Losing control of the car, Harrington crashes into an electrical pole and is electrocuted by falling high tension lines.
The Love Lottery, 1h29
Directed by Charles Crichton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors David Niven, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon, Charles Victor, Gordon Jackson
Roles Sally
Rating55% 2.7502452.7502452.7502452.7502452.750245
A celluloid heart-throb, who is haunted by dreams and hounded by fans, is coerced into taking part in a lottery to find a wife.
Meet Mr. Lucifer, 1h23
Directed by Anthony Pelissier
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Joseph Tomelty, Kay Kendall
Roles Kitty Norton
Rating58% 2.942232.942232.942232.942232.94223
When Mr Pedelty (Joseph Tomelty) leaves his firm, he is given a television set as a retirement present. At first he enjoys all the attention from his neighbours, but soon the attraction wears off, and he sells it on to a young married couple (Jack Watling and Peggy Cummins) living in the flat above him. They soon encounter the same problems, and again the set is passed on to several different characters all with the same results.
Always a Bride, 1h22
Directed by Ralph Foster Smart
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes La provence
Actors Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan, Ronald Squire, James Hayter, Marie Lohr, David Hurst
Roles Clare Hemsley
Rating60% 3.0016953.0016953.0016953.0016953.001695
Victor Hemsley vit sur la Côte d'Azur en faisant passer sa fille Clare pour son épouse afin d'escroquer les riches clients des hôtels de la région. Mais un jour Clare va tomber amoureuse d'un jeune homme, un inspecteur des impôts britannique.