Kenneth Casey

{{About|the musician and actor|other people with the name|Kenneth Casey (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox person | name = Kenneth Casey | image = Kenneth Casey portrait.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Casey {{circa|1910}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1899|1|10}} | birth_place = [[New York City|New York City, New York]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1965|8|10|1899|1|10}} | 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.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Silent Cinema in Song, 1896- 1929 |first=Ken |last=Wlaschin |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |year=2008 |page=10 |isbn=978-0786438044}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=kenneth-casey-mn0000766690 |tab=biography |pure_url=yes}} |title=Kenneth Casey Biography |first=Jason |last=Ankeny |publisher=[[All Media Network]] |work=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=12 April 2016}}</ref>

==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 film)|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) * ''[[Debbie Does Dallas (1911 film)|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 film)|The Show Girl]]'' (1911) * ''[[Barriers Burned Away (1911 film)|Barriers Burned Away]]'' (1911) * ''[[The Clown's Best Performance]]'' (1911) * ''[[The Long Skirt]]'' (1911) * ''[[Cherry Blossoms (1911 film)|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 film)|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 film)|The Man Under the Bed]]'' (1912) * ''[[An Innocent Theft]]'' (1912) * ''[[Fate's Awful Jest]]'' (1912) * ''[[A Juvenile Love Affair]]'' (1912) * ''[[Ingenuity (film)|Ingenuity]]'' (1912) * ''[[Vultures and Doves]]'' (1912) * ''[[Bumps (1912 film)|Bumps]]'' (1912) * ''[[The Higher Mercy]]'', directed by [[William V. Ranous]] (1912) * ''[[Three Girls and a Man]]'', directed by [[Albert W. Hale]] (1912) * ''[[The Eavesdropper (1912 film)|The Eavesdropper]]'', directed by [[James Young (director)|James Young]] (1912) * ''[[When Bobby Forgot]]'', directed by [[Laurence Trimble]] (1913) * ''[[Cutey and the Twins]]'', directed by [[James Young (director)|James Young]] (1913) * ''[[The White Slave; or, The Octoroon]]'', directed by [[James Young (director)|James Young]] (1913) * ''[[The Feudists]]'', directed by [[Wilfrid North]] (1913) * ''[[In the Shadow (1913 film)|In the Shadow]]'', directed by [[James Lackaye]] (1913) * ''[[Heartease (film)|Heartease]]'', directed by [[L. Rogers Lytton]] e [[James Young (director)|James Young]] (1913) * ''[[The Adventurer (1920 film)|The Adventurer]]'', directed by [[J. Gordon Edwards (director)|J. Gordon Edwards]] (1920)

==References== {{Reflist}}

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

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0143460}} *{{Discogs artist|670991-Kenneth-Casey}} *{{Find a Grave|125851441}}

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