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Charley Chase
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Director, Actor Born: October 20, 1893 in Baltimore, MD Death: June 20, 1940 in Hollywood, CA Biography:"Charley Chase"'s comic abilities went far beyond his on-camera antics: he was also a talented director, screenwriter, and even a songwriter. Born Charles Parrott on October 20, 1893, he was already a seasoned vaudeville performer by the time he was in his late teens. His travels brought him to Los Angeles, where he began appearing in comedies for "Al Christie" in 1913. A few months later, he went to "Mack Sennett"'s Keystone Pictures. Because of his good looks, it was hard for him to stand out amongst such eccentric Sennett comedians as "Chester Conklin" and "Mack Swain"; nevertheless, he made a solid supporting comic for the studio's luminaries, "Charles Chaplin", "Mabel Normand", and "Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle". He made even more of an impression as a director, and, for the latter half of the 1910s, he worked in that capacity for actors such as "Ford Sterling", "Hank Mann", "Charles "Heinie" Conklin",... Full Biography
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