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Chevy Chase

Age: 66
Height: 6' 4"

Birth Place: Woodstock, New York, USA
Born: Oct. 8th, 1943

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Chevy Chase's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Community	Pierce
The Martin Short Show	Chevy Chase

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Born Cornelius Crane Chase, he changed his name to Chevy Chase, joined the Saturday Night Live crew, and embarked on a highly successful movie career. Chase scored in the eighties with hits such as Caddyshack (1980), the National Lampoon movies and the Fletch movies. All his films show his talent for deadpan comedy. Sadly, his career has generally worsened throughout the nineties, starring in flops such as the wholly mediocre Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992), and Cops and Robbersons (1994).

TRIVIA:

His mother Cathalene Parker Browning was the only daughter of Capt. Miles R. Browning, Admiral Halsey's Chief of Staff for much of WW2.
Has perfect pitch, a musical ability to remember the exact frequency of a note.
In 2003, he appeared in two television commercials for Cola Turka, a soft drink developed to be in direct competition with both Coca-Cola and Pepsi, while keeping the money in the Turkish economy. The commercials, which were both comic and nationalistic in theme, feature Chase playing a confused American who notices his friend and family using Turkish idioms and exhibiting Turkish customs after consuming the drink. The commercials, exclusively shown in Turkey, were filmed in New York in English, but have Turkish subtitles.
At 6' 4", he was the tallest original _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv) cast member and was the first "tall guy" on the show. Cast members over 6 feet usually dwarfed the rest of the cast. Among the other tall guys to follow were 'Dan Aykroyd' (qv), 'Dean Edwards (I)' (qv), 'Will Ferrell' (qv), 'Anthony Michael Hall' (qv), 'David Koechner' (qv), 'Norm MacDonald (I)' (qv), 'Finesse Mitchell' (qv), 'Bill Murray (I)' (qv), 'Kevin Nealon' (qv), 'Randy Quaid' (qv), 'Rob Riggle' (qv), 'Charles Rocket' (qv), 'Damon Wayans' (qv), and 'Fred Wolf (II)' (qv). Only Nealon and Quaid equaled Chase in height.
Was a favorite comedian of the students in _"Head of the Class" (1986)_ (qv).
'Paul Simon (I)' (qv) is one of his best friends. He appeared alongside Simon in the music video "You Can Call Me Al," in which he lip-syncs all of Simon's lines. Due to that video's remarkable success, Chase was asked to return when Simon released his follow-up album. In the music video for "Proof", Chase was accompanied by another of his best friends, 'Steve Martin (I)' (qv).
Was a long-time class clown expelled from private schools like NYC's Dalton but did well at Stockbridge School in Massachusetts. Expelled from Haverford College after bringing a cow into the third floor of a campus building. Transferred to Bard College, where he dated actress 'Blythe Danner' (qv) and graduated in 1967.
Has a street named after him in New Orleans, Louisiana, possibly due to the Southern U.S. setting of _Fletch Lives (1989)_ (qv); and another street named after him in Cochranton, Pennsylvania.