Biography for
Dick Cusack More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

29 August 1925, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death

2 June 2003, Evanston, Illinois, USA (pancreatic cancer)

Birth Name

Richard John Cusack

Spouse

Nancy Cusack

(? - 2 June 2003) (his death) 5 children

Trivia

Father of Susie Cusack, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Ann Cusack and Bill Cusack

Wrote a series of films for the United Nations.

Worked in advertising, winning a Clio Award, until 1970, when he left to start a production company, saying "Who cares if you brush your teeth with Colgate or Palmolive? There are bigger issues out there."

Attended College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, after the war and played on the school's 1947 championship basketball team.

Served with the US Army in the Philippines in World War II.

Won an Emmy award for his abortion documentary "The Committee" in 1971 only one year after he left his advertising business and established Cusack Productions.

Honored with an award from the Evanston Arts Council for preserving a school and converting it into the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, which houses the Piven Theater Workshop where his famous acting children trained.

Took on bit parts in 15 films, the last of which was Return to Me (2000), starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver.

Two weeks prior to his passing, he completed the final draft of a play to memorialize his former college roommate entitled, "Backoff Barkman", which was produced posthumously in the Midwest.