Nick Cravat

Long-time circus acrobatic partner of 'Burt Lancaster' (qv) (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)_ (qv) with Cravat playing Piccolo, and _The Crimson Pirate (1952)_ (qv) with Cravat as Ojo. Another of Cravat's key roles was as the aircraft-eating gremlin terrorizing nervy passenger 'William Shatner' (qv) on _The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1963)_ (qv) in the episode, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. Interestingly, Cravat & Lancaster both passed away in 1994.::firehouse44