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Nick Cravat
American actor and stunt performer
Nicholas Cuccia (pronounced coo-cha; January 10, – January 29, ),[2] better known by his stage nameNick Cravat, was an American actor and stunt performer.
Early life
Nicholas Cuccia was born in Manhattan, New York City.
His real surname was Italian and considered too hard to pronounce, so he took a stage name, Cravat, from a character in a play he had seen and liked.[3]
Career
Cravat and Burt Lancaster met as youngsters at a summer camp in New York and became lifelong friends.[4] They created an acrobatic act called Lang and Cravat in the early s, and joined the Kay Brothers circus in Florida.[5] The pair worked at various circuses and in vaudeville.
In , Lancaster suffered a hand injury that ended their act. They would later reunite.
He co-starred with Lancaster in nine films, including The Flame and the Arrow (), The Crimson Pirate (), Run Silent, Run Deep (), The Scalphunters () and The Island of Dr. Moreau (). He played a mute character in several films such as The Flame and the Arrow, The Crimson Pirate, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (), and the TV series The Count of Monte Cristo, mostly because his thick Brooklyn accent would have been out of place.[6] He also played the "gremlin" on the wing of an airplane in the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20, Feet".[7]
Personal life
Cravat's first wife was Mae Ruth Cuccia, also known as Arlene Cravat.
He had two daughters from his second marriage, to Cecilia Brink: Marcelina "Marcy" Cravat-Overway and Christina "Tina" Cravat (a.k.a. Tina Cuccia).
Actor nick cravat biography of albert Self 1 Archive Footage 3. Photos Toggle the table of contents. In , Lancaster suffered a hand injury that ended their act.Marcy Cravat is an environmental documentary filmmaker. Her debut film, Angel Azul, completed in , won 12 awards. The film explores issues related to coral reefs through art activism. Dirt Rich, her second film, explores solutions to reverse the effects of global warming by re-stabilizing safe atmospheric carbon levels by returning carbon to the soil.[8]
Death
Cravat died of lung cancer in Woodland Hills, California, on January 29, , at the age of [4] He is interred at North Hollywood's Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
Filmography
References
- ^"Nick Cravat; Actor, 82". The New York Times. February 2,
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- ^"Artist tina cuccia nick cravat".
- ^ ab"Nick Cravat; Actor, 82 (obituary)". The New York Times. February 2,
- ^Tina Cuccia-Cravat (April ).
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- ^Carr, Jay. "The Crimson Pirate". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved June 19,
- ^Rubin, Steve (January 10, ). "January 10 in Twilight Zone History: Remembering Actor Nick Cravat ('Nightmare At 20, Feet') on the Anniversary of his Birth".
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