Kenneth Casey

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)