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Cornelius Crane Chase (born October 8, 1943 in New York City), also known as Chevy Chase, is an American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent New York family, Chase became a sensation as a cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live and in the 1980 film Caddyshack. He also hosted the Academy Awards twice and briefly had his own late-night talk show.

Chase was born in Manhattan to Edward Tinsley ("Ned") Chase, a prominent Manhattan book editor and magazine writer, and Cathalene Parker Browning, daughter of Admiral Miles Browning, who had a large role in the Battle of Midway. Cathalene Browning, a concert pianist, was adopted as a child by Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane, and took the name Cathalene Crane. Her mother was an opera singer who performed several times at Carnegie Hall. Chase is a 14th-generation New Yorker and was listed in the Social Register at an early age. His mother's ancestors arrived at Manhattan starting in 1624. Among his ancestors are New York City mayors Stephanus Van Cortlandt and John Johnstone, John Morin Scott (General of the New York Militia under George Washington during the American Revolution), and Anne Hutchinson, dissident Puritan preacher and pioneer. Chevy's paternal granduncle was painter/teacher Frank Swift Chase.

Chase was named for his adoptive grandfather Cornelius, who lived at Castle Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Castle Hill, which was later used in the filming of The Witches of Eastwick, served as a vacation home for the toddler during the first years of his life. The name "Chevy" was a nickname bestowed by his grandmother. As a descendant of the Scottish Clan Douglas, who repelled an English invasion at the Battle of Cheviot Hills ("Chevy Chase") in 1436, the name "Chevy" seemed appropriate to her. Chase's parents divorced when he was four; his father remarried into the Folgers coffee family, and his mother married twice more. Both parents died in 2005. His mother is buried, along with other family members, at the Artist's Cemetery in Woodstock, New York.

Chase was a persistent class clown, and was expelled from private schools like New York City's Dalton School and Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. He did well at Stockbridge School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and attended Riverdale Country School in New York City. He was valedictorian of his senior class and entered Haverford College but was expelled (or 'separated') from it after one semester. He then transferred to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he studied a pre-med curriculum, dated actress Blythe Danner for several years, and graduated in 1967 with a bachelor of arts degree in English.

Chase did not enter medical school, and instead played drums for a time with the college band The Leather Canary, headed by school chums Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. At the time, Chase called the group "a bad jazz band," but Becker and Fagen went on to success after they changed their band's name to Steely Dan. Chase is gifted with absolute pitch, and played drums and keyboards for a rock band called Chameleon Church, which recorded one album before disbanding in 1968. Before becoming famous as a writer, actor and comedian, Chase worked in many jobs including as a cab driver, truck driver, motorcycle messenger, construction worker, fruit picker, waiter/bus boy, produce manager of a supermarket, audio engineer, salesman in a wine store, and a theater usher.
Film career

Among Chase's early film roles were Tunnel Vision, Foul Play, and Oh Heavenly Dog. The role of Eric 'Otter' Stratton in National Lampoon's Animal House was originally written with Chase in mind, but he turned the role down to work on Foul Play. Chase said in an interview that he chose to do Foul Play so he could do real acting for the first time in his career instead of just doing schtick.[1] The role went to Tim Matheson instead. Chase followed Foul Play with the successful Harold Ramis comedy Caddyshack, in 1980.

Chase narrowly escaped electrocution during the filming of Modern Problems in 1980. During a sequence in which Chase's character wears 'landing lights' as he dreams that he is an airplane, the current in the lights short-circuited and arced through Chase's arm, back, and neck muscles. The near-death episode caused Chase to experience a period of deep depression, as his marriage to Jacqueline had ended just prior to the start of filming. Chase continued his film career in 1983's National Lampoon's Vacation, directed by Ramis and written by John Hughes. He married Jaynie Luke in 1983, and in 1985, he starred in Fletch, the first of two films based on Gregory Mcdonald's Fletch books. Chase joined SNL veterans Steve Martin and Martin Short in the Lorne Michaels-produced comedy ¡Three Amigos! in 1986, admitting in an interview that making ¡Three Amigos! was the most fun he has had on a film. The trio hosted SNL that year, the only time the show has had three hosts on one show.

At the height of his career in the late 1980s, Chase earned around $7 million per film and was a highly visible celebrity. He appeared alongside Paul Simon, one of his best friends, in Simon's 1986 video for "You Can Call Me Al," in which he lip-syncs all of Simon's lines. Chase hosted the Academy Awards in 1987 and 1988, signing on to the proceedings in 1987 with the memorable opener, "Good evening, Hollywood phonies!" Chase filmed a second sequel to Vacation, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, in 1989, and played saxophone onstage at Simon's free concert at the Great Lawn in Central Park in the summer of 1991. Later in 1991, he helped record and appeared in the music video "Voices That Care" to entertain and support US troops involved in Operation Desert Storm, and supported the International Red Cross.

Filmography

* Walk... Don't Walk (1968) (short subject)
* The Groove Tube (1974)
* Tunnel Vision (1976)
* Foul Play (1978)
* Oh Heavenly Dog (1980)
* Caddyshack (1980)
* Seems Like Old Times (1980)
* Under the Rainbow (1981)
* Modern Problems (1981)
* National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
* Deal of the Century (1983)
* Fletch (1985)
* National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
* Spies Like Us (1985)
* Three Amigos (1986)
* The Couch Trip (1988)
* Funny Farm (1988)
* Caddyshack II (1988)
* Fletch Lives (1989)
* Christmas Vacation (1989)
* Nothing But Trouble (1991)
* Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
* A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
* Cops and Robbersons (1994)
* Man of the House (1995)
* Vegas Vacation (1997)
* Dirty Work (1998)
* Snow Day (2000)
* Vacuums (2002)
* Orange County (2002)
* Bad Meat (2003)
* Bitter Jester (2003) (documentary)
* Rent-a-Husband (2004)
* Goose! (2004)
* Funny Money (2005)
* Ellie Parker (2005)
* Your Mom (2006)
* Zoom (2006)

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