The 'brains' and 'action' heavies who had meaty roles and lots of dialog ... and the players who were fathers, ranch owners, lawman, mayors, judges, lawyers, storekeepers, newspaper editors, wardens, etc.

Edward B. 'Ed' Cassidy 1893 - 1968

Ed Cassidy's film credits run from the mid 1930s through the mid 1950s. Les Adams has Cassidy identified in about 275 sound era films, and that number includes 205 westerns and 21 serials.

While he did portray villains and henchmen, he is best remembered as one of the "good guy" supporting players who generally portrayed a lawman, the heroine's father, the ranch owner in need of help, et al.

Cassidy did labor at most of the major and minor film production outfits, and he did a significant amount of work for Republic Pictures.  From 1936-1953, he appeared in about 85 Republic films, mostly serials and westerns.

Cassidy did make infrequent appearances in early TV shows such as THE LONE RANGER, WILD BILL HICKOK and CIRCUS BOY.

You may want to go to the In Search Of ... page on the Old Corral and then to the California Death Records database. There you will find a record for: Edward B. Cassidy, born 3/21/1893 in Illinois, Mother's maiden name of MacKeown, and he passed away on 1/19/1968. There is a corresponding record in the Social Security Death Index (SSDI).

  Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has information on Edward Cassidy http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0144185/

Jim Tipton's Find A Grave website has a photo of the grave marker for Edward B. Cassidy and his wife Pearl W. Cassidy (1893-1961) at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmid=12741719&GRid=10025395

(Courtesy of Jack Tillmany) Above, Ed Cassidy wearing a suit and carrying a badge in one of his many non-western roles. (Courtesy of Les Adams) Above from L-to-R are Fred Kohler, Jr., Ed Cassidy (minus his usual moustache) and Earl Dwire in THE PECOS KID (Commodore, 1935). Above from L-to-R are Budd Buster, Jack Perrin, Phil Dunham and Ed Cassidy (again, without his customary moustache) in Perrin's HAIR-TRIGGER CASEY (Atlantic, 1936). Above lobby card shows Ed Cassidy trying to restrain melodious hero Fred Scott who is pummeling perpetual baddie Dick Curtis in MOONLIGHT ON THE RANGE (Spectrum, 1937). (Courtesy of Les Adams) Above from L-to-R are Ed Cassidy, Johnny Mack Brown, and pretty Frances Robinson in a scene from DESPERATE TRAILS (Universal, 1939), Brown's first series western at Universal. (Courtesy of Minard Coons) Above, from L-to-R are Arthur Loft, James Guilfoyle, Johnny Mack Brown with his grips on Edward Cassidy, and Bob Baker behind JMB ... in this scene from RIDERS OF PASCO BASIN (1940).