Kenneth Casey

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Field	Value
name	Kenneth Casey
image	Kenneth Casey portrait.jpg
caption	Casey
birth_date
birth_place	New York City, New York, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Cornwall, New York, U.S.
occupation	Child actor, composer, publisher, author
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| name = Kenneth Casey | image = Kenneth Casey portrait.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Casey | birth_date = | birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = Cornwall, New York, U.S. | occupation = Child actor, composer, publisher, author | yearsactive = Kenneth Casey (January 10, 1899 – August 10, 1965) was an American composer, publisher, author, and child movie star in early silents.

Biography

Born in New York City, Casey worked as a child actor in over thirty films for Vitagraph Studios between the years 1909 and 1913. He appeared with a young Moe Howard in the 1909 picture We Must Do Our Best. Howard later became famous as one of The Three Stooges.

As a songwriter, Casey is best remembered for writing the lyrics to "Sweet Georgia Brown", in 1925.

Filmography

• We Must Do Our Best, directed by Van Dyke Brooke (1909)
• Mario's Swan Song (1910)
• Over the Garden Wall (1910)
• Chew Chew Land; or, The Adventures of Dolly and Jim (1910)
• Two Waifs and a Stray (1910)
• A Lunatic at Large (1910)
• Ransomed; or, A Prisoner of War (1910)
• The Children's Revolt (1910)
• Jean Goes Fishing (1910)
• Drumsticks (1910)
• A Tin-Type Romance (1910)
• The Misses Finch and Their Nephew Billy (1911)
• Consuming Love; or, St. Valentine's Day in Greenaway Land (1911)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1911)
• Mammy's Ghost (1911)
• A Little Lad in Dixie (1911)
• The Derelict Reporter (1911)
• Hungry Hearts; or, The Children of Social Favorites (1911)
• The Show Girl (1911)
• Barriers Burned Away (1911)
• The Clown's Best Performance (1911)
• The Long Skirt (1911)
• Cherry Blossoms (1911)
• The Child Crusoes (1911)
• Daddy's Boy and Mammy (1911)
• Wig Wag (1911)
• The Little Spy (1911)
• Captain Jenks' Dilemma (1912)
• How Tommy Saved His Father (1912)
• Father and Son (1912)
• Tom Tilling's Baby (1912)
• A Story of the Circus (1912)
• The Black Wall (1912)
• The Old Silver Watch (1912)
• The Man Under the Bed (1912)
• An Innocent Theft (1912)
• Fate's Awful Jest (1912)
• A Juvenile Love Affair (1912)
• Ingenuity (1912)
• Vultures and Doves (1912)
• Bumps (1912)
• The Higher Mercy, directed by William V. Ranous (1912)
• Three Girls and a Man, directed by Albert W. Hale (1912)
• The Eavesdropper, directed by James Young (1912)
• When Bobby Forgot, directed by Laurence Trimble (1913)
• Cutey and the Twins, directed by James Young (1913)
• The White Slave; or, The Octoroon, directed by James Young (1913)
• The Feudists, directed by Wilfrid North (1913)
• In the Shadow, directed by James Lackaye (1913)
• Heartease, directed by L. Rogers Lytton e James Young (1913)
• The Adventurer, directed by J. Gordon Edwards (1920)

References

Bibliography

• John Holmstrom, The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 12–13.

References

1. Wlaschin, Ken. (2008). "The Silent Cinema in Song, 1896- 1929". [[McFarland & Company]].
2. Ankeny, Jason. "Kenneth Casey Biography". [[All Media Network]].

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