Nick Cravat
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Nick Cravat (January 11, 1912–January 29, 1994) was an American film actor. Life-long friend and trapeze partner of Burt Lancaster, they performed as "Lang and Cravat". He co-starred with Lancaster in nine films all together, of which The Crimson Pirate and The Flame and the Arrow are the best-known. The acrobatic Cravat is probably best remembered as playing the "gremlin" on the wing in the 1963 Twilight Zone episode, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".
He played a mute character in several movies, mostly because his thick Brooklyn accent, which he could not shake, would have been out of place in the film's storyline.
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Nick Cravat and Burt Lancaster were childhood friends and met as youngsters (approximately at age 9) at a summer camp in New York. Their friendship continued through the years. They later created an acrobatic act and joined the Kay Brothers circus in Florida.
