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American actor and stunt performer

Nicholas Cuccia (pronounced coo-cha; January 10, 1912 – January 29, 1994),^[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.

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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 1930s, and joined the Kay Brothers circus in Florida.^[5] The pair worked at various circuses and in vaudeville.

In 1939, 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 (1950), The Crimson Pirate (1952), Run Silen