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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 19, 1893
Died
June 20, 1940
Place of Birth
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Also Known As
- Charles Joseph Parrott
- Charles Parrott
- Charles Parrot
- Charley Parrott
- Charlie Chase
- Charles Chase
- Jimmy Jump
Charley Chase
0.5 Popularity
Biography
Charles Joseph Parrott (October 20, 1893 – June 20, 1940), known professionally as Charley Chase, was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies. Born Charles Joseph Parrott in Baltimore, Maryland, Charley Chase began performing in vaudeville as a teenager and started his career in films by working in film in 1912.
Known For
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0.0
(archive footage)
Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen
2007
6.7
(archive footage)
Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
1992
7.5
(archive footage)
4 Clowns
1970
6.0
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
1967
3.0
(archive footage)
30 Years of Fun
1963
5.5
Self (archive footage)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961
6.7
edited from 'Movie Night' (archive footage)
When Comedy Was King
1960
6.9
archive footage
The Golden Age of Comedy
1957
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
0.0
Charley
His Bridal Fright
1940
Credits
🎬
Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen
as (archive footage)
2007
0.0
Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
as (archive footage)
1992
6.7
4 Clowns
as (archive footage)
1970
7.5
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
1967
6.0
30 Years of Fun
as (archive footage)
1963
3.0
Days of Thrills and Laughter
as Self (archive footage)
1961
5.5
When Comedy Was King
as edited from 'Movie Night' (archive footage)
1960
6.7
The Golden Age of Comedy
as archive footage
1957
6.9
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
1942
0.0
His Bridal Fright
as Charley
1940
0.0
South of the Boudoir
as Charley Chase
1940
0.0
The Heckler
as Noisy
1940
5.0
The Awful Goof
as Charley
1939
0.0
Teacher's Pest
as Charley Chase
1939
0.0
Skinny the Moocher
as Charley Chase
1939
0.0
Rattling Romeo
as Charley
1939
0.0
The Chump Takes a Bump
as Charley Chase
1939
0.0
The Sap Takes a Wrap
as Charley
1939
0.0
Pie a la Maid
as Charley
1938
0.0
A Nag in the Bag
as Racetrack Announcer (voice)
1938
0.0
The Nightshirt Bandit
as Professor Chase
1938
0.0
Many Sappy Returns
as Charley Chase
1938
4.8
The Mind Needer
as Charley Chase
1938
4.0
Time Out for Trouble
as Charley
1938
2.7
Man Bites Lovebug
as Charles Clayfoot Chase
1937
5.0
The Big Squirt
as Charley Chase
1937
3.0
Calling All Doctors
as Charley Chase
1937
0.0
The Wrong Miss Wright
as Charley Chase
1937
0.0
From Bad to Worse
as Charley Chase
1937
0.0
The Grand Hooter
as Charley Chase
1937
0.0
Hollywood Party
as Charley Chan Chase, Co-Host
1937
6.3
Kelly the Second
as Dr. J. Willoughby Klum
1936
6.0
On the Wrong Trek
as Charley Chase
1936
5.8
Vamp Till Ready
as Charley
1936
0.0
Neighborhood House
as Charley Chase
1936
0.0
The Count Takes the Count
as Charley Chase
1936
5.0
Public Ghost # 1
as Charley Chase
1935
4.0
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Life Hesitates at 40
as Charley Chase
1935
0.0
Manhattan Monkey Business
as Charley
1935
0.0
Nurse to You!
as Charley
1935
0.0
The Four Star Boarder
as Charley
1935
0.0
Southern Exposure
as Colonel Charley Chase / Pappy Chase
1935
1.0
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Poker at Eight
as Charley
1935
0.0
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Okay Toots!
as Charley
1935
0.0
The Chases of Pimple Street
as Charley Chase
1934
6.0
Fate's Fathead
as Charley Chase
1934
0.0
You Said a Hatful!
as Charley
1934
0.0
Something Simple
as Charley
1934
4.0
It Happened One Day
as Charley
1934
0.0
Another Wild Idea
as Charley
1934
3.3
I'll Take Vanilla
as Charley
1934
0.0
Four Parts
as Charley
1934
0.0
The Cracked Ice Man
as Charley Chase
1934
0.0
Sons of the Desert
as Charley
1933
7.0
Luncheon at Twelve
as Charley Chase
1933
0.0
Sherman Said It
as Charley
1933
0.0
Midsummer Mush
as Charley
1933
5.0
Arabian Tights
as Charley
1933
0.0
His Silent Racket
as Charley
1933
10.0
Nature in the Wrong
as Charley Chase
1933
0.0
Fallen Arches
as Charley Chase
1933
0.0
Mr. Bride
as Charley
1932
5.5
Now We'll Tell One
as Charley
1932
0.0
Girl Grief
as Charley
1932
5.0
Young Ironsides
as Fearless
1932
0.0
First in War
as Sgt. Chase
1932
0.0
In Walked Charley
as Mr. Chase
1932
0.0
The Nickel Nurser
as Charley Chase
1932
1.0
The Tabasco Kid
as Charley / Francisco Murietta
1932
0.0
Hasty Marriage
as Charley Chase
1931
6.5
What a Bozo!
as Charley Chase
1931
3.5
Skip the Maloo!
as Duke Chase
1931
6.0
The Panic Is On
as Charley Chase
1931
2.0
One of the Smiths
as Charley Chase / Zeb Smith Jr.
1931
6.0
Rough Seas
as Pvt. Charley Chase
1931
6.0
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Messing Around
as Carlos
1931
0.0
Little Daddy
as Chubby (singing voice)
1931
6.9
The lady from Chicago
as Charley Chase
1931
0.0
The Pip from Pittsburg
as Charley
1931
6.3
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The soul of the party
as Carlitos
1931
0.0
Thundering Tenors
as Charles A. Chase
1931
6.0
High C's
as Sgt. Charles Augustus Chase
1930
2.8
A gray in the air
as Carlos Chase
1930
0.0
Looser Than Loose
as Charley
1930
4.0
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Keep the Bomb
1930
0.0
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Hey, skirts!
as Charley
1930
0.0
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The prince of the dollar
1930
0.0
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Gold Diggers
1930
0.0
Dollar Dizzy
as Charley Chase
1930
6.0
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Follies of love
as Carlos
1930
0.0
Girl Shock
as Charley
1930
5.0
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Shy in spite of himself
1930
0.0
Fast Work
as Charley
1930
6.5
Fifty Million Husbands
as Charley Chase
1930
4.2
🎬
The golf player
1930
0.0
🎬
The golfer
1930
0.0
All Teed Up
as Mr Chase
1930
4.2
Whispering Whoopee
as Charley
1930
5.9
The Real McCoy
as Charley
1930
6.5
Great Gobs!
as Charley - 1st Sailor
1929
0.0
Stepping Out
as Charley
1929
5.0
Crazy Feet
as Charley
1929
5.5
Snappy Sneezer
as Charley
1929
6.5
Modern Love
as John Jones
1929
0.0
Leaping Love
as Charley Chase
1929
0.0
The Big Squawk
as Charley
1929
0.0
Movie Night
as Charley Chase
1929
6.0
🎬
Thin Twins
as Charley
1929
0.0
Loud Soup
as Charley Chase
1929
0.0
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Off to Buffalo
as Charley Chase
1929
0.0
Ruby Lips
as Charley
1929
0.0
Chasing Husbands
as Charley
1928
0.0
The Booster
as Charley
1928
0.0
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All Parts
1928
0.0
Is Everybody Happy?
as Charley
1928
0.0
Imagine My Embarrassment
as Charley
1928
0.0
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The Fight Pest
as Charley
1928
0.0
Limousine Love
as The Groom
1928
5.7
Aching Youth
1928
0.0
The Family Group
1928
0.0
All for Nothing
1928
0.0
Never the Dames Shall Meet
as Charley
1927
0.0
Assistant Wives
as Charley - the Husband
1927
0.0
The Way of All Pants
as Charley
1927
6.2
Call of the Cuckoo
as Asylum Inmate
1927
5.7
Now I'll Tell One
as Charley
1927
5.8
The Lighter That Failed
as Charley
1927
0.0
The Sting of Stings
as Charley
1927
0.0
What Women Did for Me
as Charley
1927
0.0
Us
as Charley
1927
0.5
The Glorious Fourth
as Top Hat Inebriate
1927
5.7
Fluttering Hearts
as Charley
1927
5.3
Bigger and Better Blondes
as Charley
1927
0.0
Forgotten Sweeties
as Thurston
1927
3.0
A One Mama Man
as Willie Shoemaker / Count Tosky
1927
0.0
Are Brunettes Safe?
as The Newspaper Columnist / Bud Gordon
1927
0.0
Many Scrappy Returns
as Charley
1927
0.0
There Ain't No Santa Claus
as Charley
1926
6.0
Be Your Age
as Charley - the Bashful Clerk
1926
5.2
Tell 'Em Nothing
as Gladstone, The Great Lover
1926
4.2
Bromo and Juliet
as Charley
1926
5.6
Crazy Like a Fox
as Wilson
1926
6.2
Merry Widower
as Hobo in Oyster Bar (uncredited)
1926
6.0
Thundering Fleas
as Mustachioed wedding guest
1926
5.6
Mighty Like a Moose
as Mr. Moose - The Husband
1926
6.7
Long Fliv the King
as Charles Chase
1926
5.6
Mum's the Word
as Charlie - the Son
1926
5.7
Dog Shy
as Charley
1926
6.6
Mama Behave
as Charles Chase / Jim Chase
1926
6.0
Charley My Boy!
as Charley
1926
5.3
His Wooden Wedding
as The Groom
1925
6.4
The Uneasy Three
1925
0.0
The Caretaker's Daughter
as The Young Married Man
1925
2.7
No Father to Guide Him
as Jimmy Jump
1925
6.5
Innocent Husbands
as Melvin
1925
6.2
Isn't Life Terrible?
as The Husband
1925
5.8
What Price Goofy?
as Jamison
1925
6.5
Looking for Sally
as Jimmy Jump
1925
6.2
Big Red Riding Hood
as Jimmy Jump
1925
5.0
Bad Boy
as Jimmie
1925
6.7
Is Marriage the Bunk?
as Jimmie Jump
1925
5.0
Hard Boiled
as Charley
1925
0.0
Should Husbands Be Watched?
as Jamison Jump
1925
6.0
Plain and Fancy Girls
as Charley
1925
0.0
The Family Entrance
as Jimmy Jump
1925
0.0
Fighting Fluid
as Jimmy Jump
1925
5.5
Hello Baby!
as Jimmy Jump
1925
5.5
The Rat's Knuckles
as Jimmy Jump
1925
6.8
The Royal Razz
as Jimmy Jump
1924
0.0
The Poor Fish
as Jimmie Jump
1924
5.0
Just a Real Good Car
as Jimmy Jump
1924
3.5
Accidental Accidents
as Jimmy Jump
1924
5.0
Bungalow Boobs
as Jimmy Jump - The Newlywed Husband
1924
0.0
Too Many Mammas
as Jimmy Jump
1924
3.8
Sittin' Pretty
as Jimmy Jump
1924
5.0
Outdoor Pajamas
as Jimmy Jump
1924
5.0
Why Men Work
as Jimmy Jump
1924
0.0
Sweet Daddy
as Jimmy Jump
1924
0.0
Seeing Nellie Home
as Charley
1924
5.0
A Ten-Minute Egg
as Jimmy Jump
1924
5.0
🎬
Why Husbands Go Mad
as Jimmy Jump
1924
0.0
Stolen Goods
as Jimmy Jump
1924
5.0
Jubilo, Jr.
as Director
1924
5.8
Young Oldfield
as Jimmy
1924
5.0
🎬
Position Wanted
as Jimmie Jump
1924
0.0
April Fool
as Jimmy Jump
1924
5.6
Publicity Pays
as Jimmy Jump
1924
5.0
The King of the Wild Horses
as Boyd Fielding (as Charles Parrott)
1924
5.8
The 'Fraidy Cat
as Jimmy Jump
1924
6.8
🎬
Love's Detour
as Jimmie Jump
1924
0.0
🎬
The Perfect Lady
as Jimmy Jump
1924
0.0
Jeffries, Jr.
1924
5.0
Powder and Smoke
1924
5.2
Just a Minute
as Jimmy Jump
1924
5.0
Hard Knocks
as Jimmie Jump
1924
5.2
One of the Family
as Jimmy Jump
1924
5.0
Don't Forget
1924
4.5
At First Sight
as Jimmy Jump
1924
5.0
All Wet
as Jimmie Jump
1924
5.2
Long Live the King
1923
0.0
Her Dangerous Path
as Glen Harper
1923
0.0
Jack Frost
1923
0.0
Sold at Auction!
as Customer (uncredited)
1923
5.8
The Stone Age
1922
0.0
The Dumb-Bell
as Actor wearing top hat
1922
6.0
🎬
In the Movies
1922
0.0
🎬
The Hustler
1921
0.0
🎬
Blue Sunday
1921
0.0
🎬
Big Game
1921
0.0
🎬
His Best Girl
1921
0.0
Moonshine
as Scorekeeper / Revenue Officer
1920
6.0
April Fool
as Supporting Character
1920
5.5
Married to Order
as The Suitor
1920
5.2
🎬
Kids Is Kids
1920
0.0
🎬
Live and Learn
1920
0.0
🎬
Don't Rock the Boat
as Ship's Officer
1920
0.0
Italian Love
1920
4.0
🎬
Why Go Home?
1920
0.0
The Nickel Snatcher
as cameo
1920
0.0
🎬
Way Out West
as Grizzled Gambler (uncredited)
1920
0.0
When Spirits Move
1920
0.0
🎬
Mystic Mush
1920
0.0
🎬
All at Sea
1919
0.0
🎬
Her Tender Feet
1919
0.0
Ship Ahoy
as Henchman (uncredited)
1919
0.0
Rolling Stone
as Bearded anarchist
1919
5.0
He's In Again
as Piano Player (as Charles Parrott)
1918
5.0
Hello Trouble
1918
6.0
🎬
Playmates
as Dope fiend
1918
6.0
Chased Into Love
as Charley
1917
0.0
🎬
A Favorite Fool
as The Circus Spieler
1915
0.0
A Versatile Villain
as Pete - Assistant Baggage Clerk
1915
4.2
Love, Loot and Crash
as Harold, Dora's Suitor
1915
4.7
The Rent Jumpers
as A Young Boarder
1915
4.7
🎬
Droppington's Devilish Deed
as Audience Member (uncredited)
1915
0.0
Settled at the Seaside
as Boyfriend
1915
5.0
A One Night Stand
as Audience Spectator (uncredited)
1915
5.0
Fatty’s Faithful Fido
as Fight Spectator / Man at the Dance (uncredited)
1915
5.7
That Little Band Of Gold
as Ticket Box Man / Man in Front Row (uncredited)
1915
5.1
Love in Armor
as The Suitor
1915
4.2
🎬
A Lucky Leap
as Lizzie's Boy Friend
1915
0.0
He Wouldn't Stay Down
as The False Friend
1915
0.0
🎬
Colored Villainy
as The Traveler
1915
0.0
Love, Speed and Thrills
as Cop (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
1915
5.0
Hash House Mashers
as The Star Boarder
1915
3.5
Peanuts and Bullets
as The Accordian Player Boarder
1915
5.0
🎬
Only a Farmer's Daughter
as The Artist
1915
0.0
Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Staring Man in Theater (uncredited)
1914
6.1
Fatty's Magic Pants
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1914
5.4
Ambrose's First Falsehood
as Ambrose's Buddy
1914
4.2
The Plumber
as Bystander
1914
0.0
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Other People's Business
1914
0.0
Leading Lizzie Astray
as Cafe Patron - In from the Mines
1914
4.2
The Noise of Bombs
as 3rd Desperado
1914
5.0
🎬
How Heroes Are Made
as The Boy Friend's Chum
1914
0.0
His Musical Career
as Piano Store Manager
1914
6.0
🎬
'Curses!' They Remarked
1914
5.0
Cursed by His Beauty
as The Art Teacher
1914
0.0
Gentlemen of Nerve
as Spectator at Entrance (uncredited)
1914
5.7
Dough and Dynamite
as Customer
1914
6.1
🎬
Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
as Faro Bill
1914
0.0
🎬
The Love Thief
1914
0.0
🎬
Dash, Love and Splash
1914
0.0
Zip, the Dodger
as Customer in Second Group (uncredited)
1914
0.0
🎬
The Anglers
1914
0.0
Those Love Pangs
as Movie Patron (uncredited)
1914
5.5
Hello, Mabel
as Mabel's Boss
1914
5.3
🎬
He Loved the Ladies
as The Husband's Pal
1914
0.0
Mabel's Blunder
as Billy Bronx
1914
5.2
The Rounders
as Diner
1914
6.1
His New Profession
as Nephew
1914
5.8
🎬
Her Last Chance
1914
0.0
The Masquerader
as Actor
1914
5.7
Those Country Kids
as Cop
1914
4.1
🎬
Such a Cook
1914
0.0
🎬
A Coat's Tale
as The Tramp
1914
0.0
🎬
Soldiers of Misfortune
1914
0.0
The Great Toe Mystery
as Gussie Birdie the Shoe Clerk (uncredited)
1914
6.0
🎬
Mabel's New Job
as Boarder
1914
0.0
🎬
Sophie of the Films #4
1914
0.0
🎬
A Gambling Rube
as (unconfirmed)
1914
0.0
Mabel's Busy Day
as Spectator
1914
5.6
The Knockout
as Spectator (uncredited)
1914
5.7
🎬
Love and Salt Water
1914
0.0
🎬
Where Hazel Met the Villain
1914
0.0
Mabel at the Wheel
as Race Spectator (uncredited)
1914
5.6
🎬
Across the Hall
as (unconfirmed)
1914
0.0