Looking over the actor Cyril Cusack's life, the man himself narrates his colourful life while pottering about the house. Born in Africa, Cyril as a child, came to Ireland with his mother as she was to join a chorus. This started his passion for theatre, with his first stage performace at the age of seven, he continued to get walk on roles in plays his mother work on and it soon became a career as he joined the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1932.

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