Biography
Casey Robinson (1903–1979) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer. Born in Logan, Utah, he graduated from Cornell University, briefly taught English and worked as a journalist before entering Hollywood in 1927 as a writer of titles for silent films.
Robinson wrote the screenplay for Captain Blood (1935) and contributed to several Bette Davis vehicles at Warner Bros., including Dark Victory (1939), The Old Maid (1939), All This, and Heaven Too (1940) and Now, Voyager (1942). His other credits include Passage to Marseille (1944), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), The Egyptian (1954) and While the City Sleeps (1956). He was a write-in nominee for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay for Captain Blood and provided uncredited rewrites on Casablanca.
He later worked as a writer-producer at MGM and 20th Century Fox, and wrote teleplays for series including Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Robinson retired in the early 1960s and moved to Australia.
