Godfrey Cass

Godfrey Cass (1867 – 14 May 1951) was an Australian actor in the silent era.

He played Ned Kelly three times, and also had roles in a number of other bushranger movies including A Tale of the Australian Bush (1911) and Moondyne (1913).

His peak years as an actor were from 1903 to 1914, usually playing the villain in melodramas.

The company survived for only one year, but in that time it made eight films, with Cass playing roles in six of them.

[3] He then returned to the stage appearing in Sealed Orders for J. C. Williamson Ltd. Cass enlisted in the Army for World War I on 27 January 1915, dropping his age by eleven years, and was discharged on 25 August 1917, suffering from shell shock.