Actor nick cravat biography for kids

Nicholas Cuccia pronounced coo-cha ; January 10, — January 29, , better known by his stage name Nick Cravat , was an American actor and stunt performer. 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. Cravat and Burt Lancaster met as youngsters at a summer camp in New York and became lifelong friends.

They created an acrobatic act called Lang and Cravat in the early s, and joined the Kay Brothers circus in Florida. The pair worked at various circuses and in vaudeville. In , Lancaster suffered a hand injury that ended their act. They would later reunite. Moreau He also played the "gremlin" on the wing of an airplane in the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20, Feet".

Tina Cuccia. Marcy Cravat is an environmental documentary filmmaker.

Nick Cravat facts for kids ; Occupation, Actor, stunt performer ; Years active, – ; Spouse(s), Mae Ruth Simpkins Cuccia (?; her death).

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. Cravat died of lung cancer in Woodland Hills, California , on January 29, , at the age of