Anecdotes

In the films La flèche et le flambeau (1950) and Le corsaire rouge (1952), he played characters that were mute. This was because he spoke with a very thick Brooklyn accent that he could not shake, and it would have been wildly out of place in such period costume dramas.

Before his Hollywood acting career, Nick Cravat also worked in the circus with one Kurt Funk in a rolla-bolla duo act known as the Saxons. He and Kurt partnered with Burt Lancaster in a perch-pole Balancing act where Nick, as bottom man, balanced Burt and Kurt on his forehead atop a ten-foot perch-pole.

Long-time acrobatic partner of Burt Lancaster.