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