Irving Cummings Jr; Writer, Producer Created TV’s ‘Fury’

Irving Cummings Jr., 78, writer and producer who created the television series “Fury” about a black stallion. Cummings produced 139 episodes of the popular late-1950s show, which starred Peter Graves along with the horse. The son of motion picture actor and director Irving Cummings Sr., the younger Cummings wrote such films as “Yesterday’s Heroes” and “Deadline for Murder.” He produced and directed the 1951 film “Double Dynamite” starring Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell and Groucho Marx, and produced “Where Danger Lives,” starring Robert Mitchum. On Tuesday in Van Nuys of cancer.