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Chevy Chase
Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, actor and writer.
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entertainment · American comedian, writer and actor (born 1943) · actor · screenwriter · comedian · voice actor · television presenter · singer · television actor · also Chevy Chase, Cornelius Crane Chase, Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase, Cornelius Chase, Chase
Born 8 October 1943 · Q310926
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2026· 6 entries
“The News for the Hard of Hearing”
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“I lived in fear all the time, deathly fear.”
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Yahoo: The Chevy Chase Movie That Made John Carpenter Want To Stop Directing
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Yahoo: Chevy Chase called out for being 'not so nice' to Billy Joel's ex-wife at a keg party
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New York Post: ‘Insufferable’ Chevy Chase slammed for telling female director she’s ‘not bright’ in his documentary
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2025· 6 entries
Decider: Terry Sweeney, Yvette Nicole Brown Speak Out Against Chevy Chase Ahead Of CNN Doc: "So THAT's Why He’s So Rotten!!!!!!!"
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Deadline.com: New Chevy Chase Doc Uncovers Details About Notorious N-Word Incident And “Mean” Anti-Chase Chant Led By ‘Community’ Creator Dan Harmon – Report
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Rolling Stone: Chevy Chase Was Put Into an 8-Day Coma While Hospitalized for Heart Failure
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Deadline.com: Chevy Chase Suffered “Near-Fatal” Heart Failure That Put Him In An 8-Day Coma In 2021: “Basically Come Back From The Dead”
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Us Weekly: Chevy Chase Says It ‘Hurt’ Being Excluded From ‘Saturday Night Live’ 50-Year Anniversary Special: ‘A Mistake’
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Chase was excluded from a role at the Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special, leaving him melancholy
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2024· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Chevy Chase once played drums in a band that would later become Steely Dan.” True.
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Starred in the film The Christmas Letter with Randy Quaid and Brian Doyle-Murray
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2021· 3 entries
Chase was put into a medically induced coma for eight days following heart failure
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In 2021, Chase was put into a medically induced coma for eight days following heart failure.
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Newman said of the altercation, "It was very sad and painful and awful
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2019· 1 entry
Chase appeared in the Netflix movie The Last Laugh, which starred Richard Dreyfuss
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2016· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Chevy Chase died of a heart attack on 4 January 2016.” False.
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2015· 1 entry
Chase reprised his role as Clark Griswold in the fifth Vacation installment, titled Vacation
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2012· 1 entry
Chase had an outburst on set while complaining about his character's bigotry as written, yelling that if it continued, he might be asked to call either Donald Glover or Yvette Nicole Brown's character the N-word
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2010· 2 entries
Chase appeared in an online Vacation short film Hotel Hell Vacation, featuring the Griswold parents, and in the Funny or Die original comedy sketch "Presidential Reunion", where he played President Ford alongside other c
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Said that his drug abuse had been "low level"
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2009· 2 entries
Chase returned to NBC in the sitcom Community, as aging moist-towelette tycoon Pierce Hawthorne
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Chase and Dan Aykroyd voiced themselves in the Family Guy episode "Spies Reminiscent of Us"
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2006· 1 entry
Co-starring with Tim Allen and Courteney Cox in the comedy Zoom, though it was both a critical and commercial failure
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2004· 1 entry
During a speech at a People for the American Way benefit at the John F
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2001· 1 entry
Another Weekend Update segment in 2007, and in Justin Timberlake's monologue in 2013 as a member of the Five-Timers Club, where he was reunited with his Three Amigos co-stars Steve Martin and Martin Short
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1999· 1 entry
And was interviewed for a 2005 NBC special on the first five years of SNL
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1998· 1 entry
A Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him
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1993· 1 entry
Chase received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard
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1991· 1 entry
Helped record and appeared in the music video "Voices That Care" to entertain and support U
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1989· 1 entry
Chase starred in a sequel to Fletch, Fletch Lives, which went on to gross more than $35 million, and made a third Vacation film, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, which pulled in $71 million and, thanks to its holid
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1988· 1 entry
Starred alongside Madolyn Smith in Funny Farm, a sizeable hit at $25 million that reached 64% approval rate on Rotten Tomatoes
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1987· 2 entries
And 1988, opening the telecast in 1988 with the quip, "Good evening, Hollywood phonies
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His Cornelius Productions company signed a non-exclusive, first-refusal deal to develop four feature projects at the Warner Bros
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1986· 2 entries
Chase joined SNL veterans Steve Martin and Martin Short in the Lorne Michaels–produced comedy ¡Three Amigos
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Chase was admitted to the Betty Ford Center for treatment of a prescription painkiller addiction
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1985· 1 entry
Chase played Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher in Fletch, based on Gregory Mcdonald's Fletch books, which grossed more than $50 million off an $8 million budget
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1980· 2 entries
Released album “Chevy Chase”.
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By portraying Ty Webb in the Harold Ramis comedy Caddyshack, a box office success that earned mixed reviews from contemporary critics but pulled in $39 million from a $6 million budget
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1978· 1 entry
Chase got into a fistfight with Bill Murray in John Belushi's dressing room
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1976· 4 entries
And ended in divorce on November 14, 1980; they had no children
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for Saturday Night Live (1976).
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Was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Awards for "Writing for a Variety Series" as part of The Smothers Brothers Show's writers room
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Was nominated at the Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the first season of Saturday Night Live
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1970· 1 entry
And was a writer for the short-lived Smothers Brothers TV show comeback in the spring of 1975
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1962· 1 entry
From the Stockbridge School, an independent boarding school near the Interlaken section of Stockbridge, Massachusetts
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1943· 2 entries
Born 1943-10-08.
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Cornelius Crane Chase was born in Lower Manhattan on October 8, 1943, and grew up in Woodstock, New York.
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1919· 1 entry
His father, Edward Tinsley "Ned" Chase (1919–2005), was a book editor and magazine writer.
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