Charles Joseph Parrott (October 20, 1893 – June 20, 1940), known professionally as Charley Chase, was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director. He worked for many pioneering comedy studios but is chiefly associated with producer

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. Chase was the elder brother of comedian/director

James Parrott James Parrott (August 2, 1897 – May 10, 1939) was an American actor and film director; and the younger brother of film comedian Charley Chase. Biography Early years James Gibbons Parrott was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Charles a ...

Life and career

Born Charles Joseph Parrott in

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, Maryland, Charley Chase began performing in

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as a teenager and started his career in films by working at the

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in 1912. He then moved to

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, where he began appearing in

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s in the

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films, including those of

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. By 1915 he was playing juvenile

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in the Keystones, and directing some of the films as Charles Parrott. His Keystone credentials were good enough to get him steady work as a comedy director with other companies; he directed many of Chaplin imitator

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's comedies, which featured a young

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as a

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He worked at

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during its final months of existence. Then in 1920, Chase began working as a film director for the Hal Roach studio. Among his notable early work for Roach was supervising the first entries in the ''

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'' series. Chase became director-general of the Hal Roach studio in late 1921, supervising the production of all the Roach series except the

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comedies. Following Lloyd's departure from the studio in 1923, Chase moved back in front of the camera with his own series of shorts, adopting the screen name Charley Chase. Chase was a master of the comedy of embarrassment, and he played either hapless young businessmen or befuddled husbands in dozens of

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. His screen persona was that of a pleasant young man with a dapper

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and ordinary street clothes; this set him apart from the

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ish

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and crazy costumes used by his contemporaries. His earliest Roach shorts cast him as a hard-luck fellow named "Jimmie Jump" in one-reel (10-minute) comedies. Katherine Grant and Charley Chase

The first Chase series was successful and expanded to two reels (20 minutes); this would become the standard length for Chase comedies, apart from a few three-reel featurettes later. The direction of the Chase series was taken over by

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, who, in collaboration with Chase formed the comic style of the series:

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and

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instead of knockabout

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. Some of Chase's starring shorts of the 1920s, particularly ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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. Chase remained the guiding hand behind the films, assisting anonymously with the directing, writing, and editing. Chase moved with ease into

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s in 1929 and became one of the most popular film comedians of the period. He continued to be very prolific in the talkie era, often putting his fine singing voice on display and including his humorous, self-penned songs in his comedy shorts. The two-reeler ''The Pip from Pittsburg'', released in 1931 and co-starring

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, is one of the most celebrated Charley Chase comedies of the sound era. Throughout the decade, the ''Charley Chase'' shorts continued to stand alongside

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and Our Gang as the core output of the Roach studio. Chase was featured in the Laurel and Hardy feature ''

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''; Laurel and Hardy made cameo appearances as hitchhikers in Chase's ''

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''. ''

'' was supposed to be the final Charley Chase short subject: by 1936 producer Hal Roach was now concentrating on making ambitious feature films. Chase played a

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in the

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feature ''

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'', and starred in a 55-minute feature, ''Bank Night'', lampooning the popular Bank Night phenomenon of the 1930s. Chase's feature was plagued with a host of production problems and legalities, and the film was drastically edited down to two reels and finally released as one last Charley Chase short, '' Neighborhood House''. The 55-minute version included a subplot, in which gangsters raid the theater and hold Chase captive; this footage was removed. Featured players

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, Charles Lane, and

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were cast in the feature, but they do not appear in the revised short-subject version. Chase was then dismissed from the Roach studio.

Later years and death

In 1937, Chase began working at

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, where he spent the rest of his career starring in his own series of two-reel comedies, as well as producing and directing other Columbia comedies, including those of

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, and

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. He directed the Stooges' classic ''

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'' (1938). He is often credited with writing the film's song " Swinging the Alphabet", However, the tune actually originates with 19th-century songwriter

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. Recent research asserts that the Chase family's maid introduced the song to Chase and taught it to his daughters. Chase's own shorts at Columbia favored broader sight gags and more slapstick than his earlier, subtler work, although he does sing in two of the Columbias, ''The Grand Hooter'' and ''The Big Squirt'' (both 1937). Chase reportedly suffered from depression and alcoholism for most of his professional career, and his tumultuous lifestyle began to take a serious toll on his health. His hair had turned prematurely gray, and he

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it jet-black for his Columbia comedies. Years later Hal Roach said "I never saw him drunk at the studio, and I never saw him sober outside of it." His younger brother, comedy writer-director

, had personal problems resulting from a drug treatment (his diet medications were actually addictive

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) and died in 1939. Chase was devastated. He had refused to give his brother money to support his drug habit, and friends knew he felt responsible for Parrott's death. He coped with the loss by throwing himself into his work and by drinking more heavily than ever, despite doctors' warnings. The stress ultimately caught up with him; just over a year after his brother's death, Charley Chase died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California, on June 20, 1940. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery near his wife Bebe Eltinge in

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. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Charley Chase received a star on the

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at 6630

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on February 8, 1960.

Revivals

Hal Roach licensed his film library to

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, which re-released the Chase films to theaters in the 1940s. (The company refilmed the titles to eliminate the MGM logo and trademark, and misspelled Chase's name as "Charlie".) In 1950 the Hal Roach comedies were released to syndicated television, and Charley Chase was introduced to new audiences. Columbia's Charley Chase comedies, unlike most of the Columbia short-subject series, were never re-released to theaters in later years; they only played first-run. Instead, the Chase ''scripts'' were recycled; 12 of the 20 stories were strong enough to be remade in the 1940s with other comedians. For example, Chase's ''The Heckler'' (1940) was remade with

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as ''Mr. Noisy'' (1946), ''The Wrong Miss Wright'' (1937) was remade with

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as ''You Dear Boy!'' (1943), ''The Big Squirt'' was remade with

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as ''The Awful Sleuth'' (1951), and ''The Nightshirt Bandit'' (1938) was remade with

as ''Go Chase Yourself'' (1948) and ''Pardon My Nightshirt'' (1956). Producer

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'' (1957) and ending with '' 4 Clowns'' (1970). Since the 1990s, there has been a revival of interest in the films of Charley Chase, due in large part to the increased availability of his comedies. An extensive website researching his life and work, ''The World of Charley Chase'', was created in 1996. Two books devoted to Chase followed: a biography, ''Smile When the Raindrops Fall'', was published in 1998; ''The Charley Chase Scrapbook'', compiled from Chase's own collections of photos, writings, and souvenirs, was published in 2016. Chase's sound comedies for Hal Roach were briefly televised in the late 1990s on the short-lived American cable network the Odyssey Channel. Retrospectives of Chase's work organized by ''The Silent Clowns Film Series'' were held in 1999, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2018, and 2022 in New York City. A marathon of selected Charley Chase shorts from the silent era was broadcast in 2005 on the American cable television network

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. In late 2006, Turner Classic Movies began to air Charley Chase's sound-era comedies. In January 2011, several of his sound shorts were featured during Turner Classic Movies' tribute to Hal Roach Studios. In 2007, ''

'' (1926) was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress's

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, solidifying its reputation as one of the most celebrated comedies of the silent era and cementing Chase's status as a pioneer of early film comedy.

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released two Charley Chase DVD

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in 2004 and 2005 for their ''Slapstick Symposium'' series. The films came from archives and collectors around the world. In 2009, VCI Entertainment released ''Becoming Charley Chase'', a DVD boxed set of Charley Chase's early silent films. In 2013, Sony Home Entertainment released digital restorations of Charley Chase's twenty short comedies for Columbia Pictures (1937–1940) as part of its "Columbia Choice Collection" DVD series. During 2018–2022, the entire run of Charley Chase's sound-era short comedies for Hal Roach, produced between 1929 and 1936, was released on DVD in four volumes by Kit Parker Films. In 2024 Parker released Blu-Ray and DVD volumes of Charley Chase's vintage-1927 silent comedies.

Partial filmography

* '' The Masquerader'' (1914, Short) – Actor (uncredited) * '' Tillie's Punctured Romance'' (1914) – Detective in movie theatre (uncredited) * '' Chased into Love'' (1917, Short) * ''Her Dangerous Path'' (1923) – Glen Harper * ''Long Live the King'' (1923) * ''

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'' (1924) – Boyd Fielding * '' All Wet'' (1924, Short) – Jimmie Jump * '' Looking for Sally'' (1925, Short) – Jimmie Jump * ''

Isn't Life Terrible? ''Isn't Life Terrible?'' is a 1925 American film starring Charley Chase and featuring Oliver Hardy and Fay Wray. This short is a parody on D. W. Griffith's 1924 drama ''Isn't Life Wonderful'' (1924). The staircase used in this film is the same ...

'' (1925, Short) – The Husband * ''Is Marriage Goofy'' (1925) – Charley * '' Dog Shy'' (1926, Short) – Charley * ''

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'' (1926) – (uncredited) * ''

'' (1926, Short) – Mr. Moose – The Husband * ''

'' (1926, Short) – Wilson – the Groom * '' Bromo and Juliet'' (1926, Short) – Charley * ''

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'' (1927, Short) – Asylum Inmate (uncredited) * '' Limousine Love'' (1928, Short) – The Groom * '' Modern Love'' (1929) – John Jones * ''Le joueur de golf'' (1930, Spanish-language version of ''All Teed Up'') * ''Chercheuses d'or'' (1930, Spanish-language version of ''Dollar Dizzy'') * ''Garde la bombe'' (1930, Spanish-language version of ''Looser than Loose'') * '' The Pip from Pittsburg'' (1931, Short) – Charley * '' Arabian Tights'' (1933, Short)Arabian Tights (1933)
,

– Charley * ''

'' (1933) – Charley Chase, delegate from Texas * ''

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'' (1935, Short) – Himself * '' Public Ghost #1'' (1935, Short) – Himself * ''

'' (1936, Short) – Himself * '' Neighborhood House'' (1936) – Himself * ''

'' (1936) – Dr. J. Willoughby Klum * ''

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'' (1937, director of

short) * ''

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'' (1938, director of

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short) * ''

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'' (1939, Short) – Himself * '' The Heckler'' (1940, Short) – Noisy

References

External links

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