Nick Cravat(1912-1994)
- Actor
- Stunts
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 and highly enjoyable to watch on-screen. According to reports,
Cravat was as strong as a bull. When he lost his cool, it took several
men to hold him back. Cravat appeared with Lancaster in nine films. The
best remembered were
The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
with Cravat playing Piccolo, and
The Crimson Pirate (1952)
with Cravat as Ojo. Another of Cravat's key roles was as the
aircraft-eating gremlin terrorizing nervy passenger
William Shatner on
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1963)
in the episode, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. Interestingly, Cravat
& Lancaster both passed away in 1994.
