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.