Cyril Cusack
Gender: Male
Born: 26th November 1910
Died: 7th October 1993
Nationality: Republic of Ireland
TV programs: Strumpet City, Jesus of Nazareth, Clochemerle, The Golden Bowl
Movies: 1984, Gone to Earth, Harold and Maude, Ill Met by Moonlight, Odd Man Out, The Blue Lagoon, The Elusive Pimpernel, Sacco e Vanzetti, Tam-Lin, All the Way, Boys, I Thank a Fool, Fahrenheit 451, Poitín, A Terrible Beauty, The Comedy of Errors, The Spanish Gardener, Once a Crook, The Taming of the Shrew, 80,000 Suspects, Gideon's Day, Where the Spies Are, Esther Waters, Far and Away, Dr. Fischer of Geneva, Country Dance, David Copperfield, The Rising of the Moon, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Street War, The Kingfisher, The Small Back Room, True Confessions, The Day of the Jackal, Waltz of the Toreadors, The Homecoming, My Left Foot, Conflict, Les Misérables, The Man Who Never Was, Little Dorrit, The Tenth Man, All Over the Town, Passage Home, King Lear, The March Hare, Jacqueline, Lovespell, As You Like It, The Company: Inigo and His Jesuits, Soldiers Three, The Wild Heart
Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, who appeared in numerous films and television productions in a career lasting more than 70 years.
Cusack was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa. His mother, Alice Violet (née Cole), was an English Cockney actress and chorus girl, and his father, James Walter Cusack, was Irish and a sergeant in the Natal mounted police. His parents separated when he was young and his mother took him to England, and then to Ireland. Cusack's mother and her partner, Breifne O'Rorke, joined the O'Brien and Ireland Players. Cyril made his first stage performance at the age of seven. Cusack was educated in Newbridge College, Newbridge, County Kildare and University College Dublin. He left without a degree and joined the Abbey Theatre in 1932. Between then and 1945, he performed in over 60 productions, particularly excelling in the plays of Seán O'Casey. In 1947, Cusack formed his own company and staged productions in Dublin, Paris and New York.
In 1963, Cusack joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and appeared there for several seasons. By this stage he had established a successful career in films, which had started at
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