Fred Cusick(1918-2009)
- Actor
Fred Cusick was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1918 to Irish
immigrants. He grew up in the Boston neighborhood of Brighton. Cusick attended Northeastern University where he played hockey,
football and baseball. In 1942 after graduation he joined the United
States Navy serving for the duration of World War II. Afterwards he
remained in the Naval Reserves, retiring with the rank of captain.
Cusick began his career in radio on a Cape Cod radio station and then
one in Brockton, Massachusetts. In 1952 he began broadcasting Boston
Bruin games on radio, eventually migrating to television where he was a
constant for more than four decades. A recipient of the National Hockey
League's Lester Patrick Award for major contributions to the game in
the United States. Cusick was also the first American broadcast to
be inducted into Toronto's Media Hall of Fame. The day after Cusick
passed away from cancer he was inducted into the Massachusetts
Broadcasters Hall of Fame.