Richard John Cusack (August 29, 1925 – June 2, 2003)[1] was an American actor, filmmaker and documentary maker.
After the war, he attended College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he played basketball with Bob Cousy and roomed with Philip F. Berrigan, the peace activist.
He played a judge in the TV movie Overexposed and in the theatrical releases Things Change and Eight Men Out.
Two weeks before his death, he completed the final draft of a play to memorialize his former college roommate entitled, Backoff Barkman, which was produced posthumously in the Midwest.
[5] Circa 1963–1966, the Cusack family moved from New York City to Evanston, Illinois, where the five children grew up.