Colin Chase

For the professor of English, see Colin Robert Chase.
Colin Chase
Director Robert Ross, production company president Robert Broadwell, Mae Gaston, Thomas Carrigan, and Mrs. Colin Chase and Colin Chase on location for A Cry at Midnight (1916)
BornApril 13, 1886
DiedApril 25, 1937(1937-04-25) (aged 51)
OccupationFilm actor
Years active1915–1937

Colin Chase (April 13, 1886 – April 25, 1937) was an American silent film actor.

Biography

Born in 1886 in Lewiston, Idaho, Chase signed for his first film role in 1915 and starred in about 45 films. In 1916, he signed a long-term contract with the Morosco-Pallas company.[1]

Chase often was cast as a villain in Westerns, sometimes being billed as "Bud Chase". As a supporting player with Fox and other studios, he made the transition to sound films. He had been a cartoonist for a newspaper in Chicago and had performed in vaudeville.[2]

Chase died on April 25, 1937, after an illness of several weeks, and one week after he had become "stricken with paralysis" from either a stroke or an illness.[3] in Sawtelle, California.[4]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ "Colin Chase Engaged". The Salt Lake Tribune. August 27, 1916. p. 36. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Wollstein, Hans J. "Colin Chase". AllMovie. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  3. ^ "Colin Chase Taken by Death— Paralysis Attack Fatal to Cjaracter Actpr". The Los Angeles Times. April 26, 1937. p. II-1.
  4. ^ "Colin Chase, Film Actor in Character Roles, D". The New York Times. Associated Press. April 26, 1937. p. 19. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
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