James Cassady(1869-1928)
- Actor
American character actor of silent films. As a boy, Cassady sang aboard
a passenger steamer, the Republic, as it sailed between Cape May and
his native Philadelphia. Cassady began his adult career under the
vaudeville management of Ed Harrigan, then toured in stock productions
for twenty-five years with the Thomas Shea theatrical company. Shea
transformed his theatrical troupe into a vaudeville company and Cassady
remained with him in that arena for several years. He entered films in
1914 and appeared in nearly thirty roles before returning to the stage
in 1916. He died of pneumonia while on tour with the Donald Kerr-Effie
Watson company on the Schubert circuit, in Spokane, Washington, in
1928.
