Nick cravat biography

          A muscular, pint-sized acrobat with wavy hair and dark, swarthy good looks, he was Burt Lancaster's partner when they formed Lang and Cravat and toured in.

          Nicholas Cuccia, better known by his stage name Nick Cravat, was an American actor and stunt performer....

          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.

          Nick Cravat was an American actor and stunt performer.

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        2. Nicholas Cuccia, better known by his stage name Nick Cravat, was an American actor and stunt performer.
        3. Nicholas Cuccia (January 11, – January 29, ), known as Nick Cravat, was an American actor and stuntman.
        4. Long-time circus acrobatic partner of Burt Lancaster (performing as "Lang & Cravat") may have been short on stature, but he was big on athletic prowess.

          5. 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 Sca