Cyril John Cusack was born on November 26, 1910 in Durban, South Africa. His mother Alice Cole was a chorus girl, then an actress, and his father, James Cusack, an Irishman, served in the Mounted Police. His parents divorced when he was six, after which he and his mother moved to Ireland. In Ireland, Alice got a job in the theater troupe "O'Breen and Irish Players", in which the young Cusack began his acting career. At the same time, he starred in his first film. While traveling with the troupe
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Cyril John Cusack was born on November 26, 1910 in Durban, South Africa. His mother Alice Cole was a chorus girl, then an actress, and his father, James Cusack, an Irishman, served in the Mounted Police. His parents divorced when he was six, after which he and his mother moved to Ireland. In Ireland, Alice got a job in the theater troupe "O'Breen and Irish Players", in which the young Cusack began his acting career. At the same time, he starred in his first film. While traveling with the troupe around the country, Cusack changed many schools until he finally got a foothold at the Dominican College in Newburg, where he completed his primary education. From 1928 to 1932 he studied at University College in Dublin, where he studied modern history and Roman law.
It seemed that he was destined for a career as a lawyer, but his love for art gained the upper hand and in 1932 he became an actor at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In this theater he spent thirteen years and during this time played in sixty-five plays. In 1935-1936, he headed the Galic Players troupe, and soon made his debut in London. He achieved the greatest success in the play Playboy of the Western World, as Christy Mahon, which he called the most difficult role for the actor. In the following years, he played in the Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and in 1944 he headed his own troupe Cyril Cusack Productions.
Despite the fact that the actor focused on working in the theater, his cinematic career, which began in the mid-thirties, significantly intensified in the postwar period. He proved himself well, playing chauffeur Pat, who became his first truly notable film role in the crime thriller Carol Reed's "Out of the Game" (1947) and Corporal Taylor in the military drama Michael Powell and Emerick Pressburger's "Little Back Room" (1949). A short stature, stocky, Cusack was known mainly as a supporting actor and was rarely engaged in leading roles. One of these exceptions was the film directed by Liliana Cavani “Galileo” (1968), in which he played the famous Italian scientist Galileo Galilei.
However, and in less significant roles, the actor almost always managed to attract attention and make his appearance on the screen bright and memorable, whether it was the head of the fire crew in the famous film Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Grumio’s servant in “The Taming of the Shrew” (1967) or Rabbiefios in “Yegoreliusse” (77) in “Iegoreliuse”). In total, Cusack starred in more than a hundred films in his entire life. Among them are “The Waltz of the Toreadors” (1962, dir. John Gillermin), “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” (1965, dir. Martin Ritt), “The Day of the Jackal” (1973, dir. Fred Zinnemann), “Abdication” (1974, dir. Anthony Harvey), “My Left Foot” (1989, dir. Jim Sheridan), “Far Away” (1992, dir. Ron Howard), “In addition to his work in theater and cinema, Cews, he also published several plays with his own works (1976), “Chastess”, “Chairs” (1976), and “Champs, which he published several plays with his own”. He has received three honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland (1977), Dublin (1980) and Ulster (1982). All of Cusack’s daughters – Sinead, Sora, Neave and Catherine – became actresses. Three of them in 1990 were engaged in one of the last performances of his father – the play by Anton Chekhov “Three Sisters”, in which Kusak himself played Chebutykin. The actor died in London on October 7, 1993.
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