Casson Ferguson

Casson Ferguson (May 29, 1891 – February 12, 1929) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1917 and 1928.

His father was John J. Ferguson, a jeweler in Alexandria, Louisiana. Early in his career Casson was a member of the Mantel Shakespeare Players in New Orleans before moving to California to pursue a movie career, first with the Seelig Company, then as a leading man. In 1928 he toured Europe and performed as a singer and actor in London and Paris. Returning to California, he married Catherine Mallon. Not long after he died of pneumonia at the age of 37; two days later his wife Catherine also died of pneumonia, and her mother also soon died of pneumonia.

Partial filmography

 * The Mystery of No. 47 (1917) - Buffington
 * Face Value (1918) - Louis Maguire
 * The Shuttle (1918) - G. Selden
 * Unclaimed Goods (1918) - Cocopah Kid
 * Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1918) - Eddie Semper
 * The Only Road (1918) - Bob Armstrong
 * How Could You Jean? (1918) - Ted Burton Jr
 * Alias Mary Brown (1918) - Dick Browning, aka Mary Brown
 * The Gypsy Trail (1918) - Michael Rudder
 * Jane Goes A-Wooing (1919) - Micky Donovan
 * The Drifters (1919) - Hugh MacLaren
 * Johnny Get Your Gun (1919) - Bert Whitney
 * Partners Three (1919) - Arthur Gould
 * Putting It Over (1919) - Perkins
 * Secret Service (1919) - Wilfred Varney
 * Flame of the Desert (1919) - Sir Charles Channing
 * Peg o' My Heart (1919) - Alaric Chicester
 * The Prince Chap (1920) - Jack, Earl of Huntington
 * Merely Mary Ann (1920) - Lancelot
 * Madame X (1920) - Raymond Floriot
 * The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1920) - Dick Somers
 * Bunty Pulls the Strings (1921) - Jeemy
 * The Unknown Wife (1921) - Donald Grant
 * What's a Wife Worth? (1921) - Bruce Morrison
 * At the End of the World (1921)
 * A Virginia Courtship (1921) - Tom Fairfax
 * The Law and the Woman (1922) - Phil Long
 * The Truthful Liar (1922) - Arthur Sinclair
 * Over The Border (1922) - Val Galbraith
 * Borderland (1922) - Clyde Meredith
 * Manslaughter (1922) - Bobby Dorest
 * Drums of Fate (1923) - David Verne
 * Grumpy (1923) - Chamberlin Jarvis
 * A Gentleman of Leisure (1923) - Sir Spencer Deever
 * Her Reputation (1923) - Jack Calhoun
 * The Road to Yesterday (1925) - Adrian Thompkyns
 * The Wedding Song (1925) - Madison Melliah
 * Cobra (1925) - Jack Dorning
 * Forbidden Waters (1926) - Sylvester
 * For Alimony Only (1926) - Bertie Waring
 * The King of Kings (1927) - Scribe
 * Tenth Avenue (1928) - Curley