ACTOR
Chevy Chase
- Known for
- Fletch (1985), Vegas Vacation (1997), Nothing But Trouble (1991), Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
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Chevy Chase is an actor best known for Fletch, Vegas Vacation and Nothing But Trouble.
Chevy Chase's Parents and Wife: 11 Family Facts
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Shortly after his time on "SNL," Chevy Chase underwent back surgery because of the funny falls he took on stage.
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Chevy Chase's middle name, Crane, comes from his mother's family. As a child he spent his summer holidays at Crane Castle in Ipswich, Massachusetts, his mother's family's summer home.
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Chase named Irwin Fletcher in Fletch (1985) as his favorite role, because it allowed him to play several different characters and to work with props.
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A long-time class clown, he was expelled from private schools such as Dalton in New York but thrived at the Stockbridge School in Massachusetts. He was thrown out of Haverford College after bringing a cow up to the third floor of a campus building. He transferred to Bard College, where he dated the actress Blythe Danner and graduated (1967).
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His brother lived across the hall from Ted Kaczynski, "the Unabomber," at Harvard University.
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His parents divorced when he was four years old. His father remarried into the Folger coffee family. His mother's third marriage was to Lawrence Widdoes, a Juilliard School professor and composer.
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He is descended from the famous Pilgrim William Brewster (c. 1566-1644) and from Brewster's wife Mary, who came to Massachusetts, America, as a Mayflower passenger.
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His short-lived television talk show was billed as a Cornelius Production; Cornelius was Chevy's real name.
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Chevy was in fact a childhood nickname given to him by his grandmother, probably derived from a Washington, D.C. suburb. The Chase family was wealthy and prominent, and Chevy appeared in the Social Register at an early age. His father's grandfather was the painter and teacher Edward "Ned" Leigh Chase; his father, Ned Chase, was a leading Manhattan book editor and magazine writer. His mother came from the Crane plumbing-fixture family.
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Chevy Chase entered the Hazelden Clinic in Minnesota in September 2016 for treatment of an alcohol-related problem.
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Chevy Chase has been convicted of driving under the influence.
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