The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Bernie Casey

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Bernie Casey

10/4/2005; 10/8/2005

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2005.229

Film actor and football player Bernie Casey (1939 - 2017 ) played for the San Francisco 49ers and the L.A. Rams before turning to acting in film and television. As an artist, Casey produced more than thirty solo exhibitions and served for twenty years as chairman of the board at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia. Casey was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 10/4/2005 and 10/8/2005, in Los Angeles, California. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 7; Total Run Time: 03h 09m 27s

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Bernie Casey was born Bernard Terry Casey on June 8, 1939, in the small coal mining community of Wyco, West Virginia, to Frank Leslie Casey and Flossie Coleman Casey. While Casey was still a youth, he and his family moved to Columbus where he attended Garfield Elementary School, Champion Junior High, and Columbus East High School. Casey had already shown an aptitude for painting and drawing, and soon developed his athletic abilities as well, particularly for basketball and football.Casey attende...