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Peggy Cummins (born 18 December 1925) is a retired Irish actress. Cummins is 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). She was born Augusta Margaret Diane Fuller in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales. She was born in Wales—but that particular locale was but an accident. Her Irish parents happened to be there and a storm kept them from returning to their home in Dublin. Peggy lived most of her early life in Dublin where she was educated and later in London. Her mother was the... MORE

Peggy Cummins (born 18 December 1925) is a retired Irish actress. Cummins is 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). She was born Augusta Margaret Diane Fuller in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales. She was born in Wales—but that particular locale was but an accident. Her Irish parents happened to be there and a storm kept them from returning to their home in Dublin. Peggy lived most of her early life in Dublin where she was educated and later in London. Her mother was the actress Margaret Cummins (Margaret Mary Treacy Fuller Cummins, 1889–1973) who played a small but effective role of Anna the maid in the film Smart Woman (1948). She also played Emily in the Margaret Ferguson film The Sign of the Ram. In 1938 actor Peter Brock noticed Peggy Cummins at a Dublin tram stop and introduced her to Dublin's Gate Theatre Company. She then appeared on the London stage in the title role of Alice In Wonderland and in the title role of Junior Miss at age 12 at the Saville Theatre. Cummins made her film debut at 15 in the British production directed by Herbert Mason, Dr. O'Dowd LESS