When moving to New Orleans and working as a constructor of Mardi Gras floats, Cummings eventually discovered himself within Anaheim, California working odd jobs. Inside 1983, a increasing unwellness of longtime Winnie the Pooh voice actor Sterling Holloway led to an open call to replenish him for the motion-picture show Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore. Cummings offered an uncanny substitute, & was hired for his foremost voice actor job.

On top a next Xx years, Cummings' role withwithin voice acting evolved from either bit characters to leading roles in major series at the total of studios, including Nickelodeon, Fred Wolf Films, Hanna-Barbera, Dreamworks, and 20th Century Fox studios. Still, his best known & long-long-lived roles use at times occurred at Walt Disney Studios, around which has provided voices for any total of television series (including leading roles in "Darkwing Duck", "Bonkers", "Gargoyles", and "Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers") and movies such as Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Pocohontas. Ironically, his best known role for Disney (outside of Winnie a Pooh) wwhen his non-walk-on turn as Ed a laughing hyena within 1994's The Lion King.

More roles for Cummings include Mr. Jolty in the cult Claymation indicate "Bump in the Night", Dr. Robotnik on "Sonic The Hedgehog SatAM", and Taz the Tazmanian Devil on "Taz-Mania" and a number of other projects. All over the years Cummings has be a official voice for a total of legendary cartoon characters, including Taz, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Dick Dastardly, the Slag Brothers, Large Gruesome, Pvt Meekly Clyde & Morocco Mole.

Cummings has likewise provided voices for computer game, television commercial message, & film trailers, & is the todays official announcer for Children' WB.

Cummings is the future voice of Piglet, originally voiced by John Fiedler, in future Disney productions.