Charley Chase
Acting
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.
As actor 289
Sons of the Desert
1933
The Masquerader
1914
The Golden Age of Comedy
1957
Playmates
1918
Outdoor Pajamas
1924
April Fool
1920
Sweet Daddy
1924
South of the Boudoir
1940
Limousine Love
1928
Fighting Fluid
1925
Rattling Romeo
1939
Hello Trouble
1918
Movie Night
1929
Dog Shy
1926
What Women Did for Me
1927
Hollywood Party
1937
The Plumber
1914
Italian Love
1920
Fast Work
1930
Those Country Kids
1914
Okay Toots!
1935
Southern Exposure
1935
Four Parts
1934
Hard Knocks
1924
Chasing Husbands
1928
Hello, Mabel
1914
Long Live the King
1923
Moonshine
1920
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
Fluttering Hearts
1927
Arabian Tights
1933
Rolling Stone
1919
Why Go Home?
1920
The Sap Takes a Wrap
1939
Great Gobs!
1929
Young Ironsides
1932
Position Wanted
1924
Isn't Life Terrible?
1925
Mama Behave
1926
The Nickel Nurser
1932
The Knockout
1914
Midsummer Mush
1933
High C's
1930
Publicity Pays
1924
Bungalow Boobs
1924
The Parrott Chase
2009
Wonder Dogs! Canine Stars of the Silent Era (1898-1928)
2025
Hey, skirts!
1930
Now I'll Tell One
1927
Hard Boiled
1925
The Sting of Stings
1927
The Rat's Knuckles
1925
Love, Speed and Thrills
1915
Looking for Sally
1925
Sittin' Pretty
1924
Jack Frost
1923
Thin Twins
1929
Aching Youth
1928
The Fight Pest
1928
On the Wrong Trek
1936
The Nightshirt Bandit
1938
Vamp Till Ready
1936
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
The Real McCoy
1930
All Parts
1928
Skip the Maloo!
1931
Us
1927
Big Game
1921
Leaping Love
1929
Messing Around
1931
Seeing Nellie Home
1924
Crazy Feet
1929
The Big Squirt
1937
First in War
1932
Sold at Auction!
1923
In Walked Charley
1932
Girl Grief
1932
Ship Ahoy
1919
Crazy Like a Fox
1926
What Price Goofy?
1925
April Fool
1924
The Awful Goof
1939
Those Love Pangs
1914
Little Daddy
1931
His Wooden Wedding
1925
Fate's Fathead
1934
One of the Smiths
1931
Bromo and Juliet
1926
Zip, the Dodger
1914
Mabel's Busy Day
1914
Neighborhood House
1936
Too Many Mammas
1924
The Heckler
1940
When Comedy Was King
1960
Be Your Age
1926
The Rounders
1914
Calling All Doctors
1937
Time Out for Trouble
1938
Call of the Cuckoo
1927
Cursed by His Beauty
1914
Fatty’s Faithful Fido
1915
Dough and Dynamite
1914
Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
1992
Bigger and Better Blondes
1927
Her Dangerous Path
1923
The Way of All Pants
1927
The Poor Fish
1924
The King of the Wild Horses
1924
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961
Girl Shock
1930
Gentlemen of Nerve
1914
Pie a la Maid
1938
30 Years of Fun
1963
His Bridal Fright
1940
Mabel's Blunder
1914
The Royal Razz
1924
Mabel at the Wheel
1914
Don't Rock the Boat
1920
All Teed Up
1930
Peanuts and Bullets
1915
Manhattan Monkey Business
1935
The Rent Jumpers
1915
Sophie of the Films #4
1914
Thundering Tenors
1931
Thundering Fleas
1926
I'll Take Vanilla
1934
Mr. Bride
1932
Hasty Marriage
1931
Long Fliv the King
1926
Blue Sunday
1921
You Said a Hatful!
1934
Skinny the Moocher
1939
Such a Cook
1914
There Ain't No Santa Claus
1926
Chased Into Love
1917
Married to Order
1920
Ambrose's First Falsehood
1914
Mighty Like a Moose
1926
Colored Villainy
1915
Leading Lizzie Astray
1914
Soldiers of Misfortune
1914
Gold Diggers
1930
'Curses!' They Remarked
1914
He's In Again
1918
Now We'll Tell One
1932
Life Hesitates at 40
1935
Just a Minute
1924
The golfer
1930
The Family Group
1928
Plain and Fancy Girls
1925
Merry Widower
1926
Off to Buffalo
1929
The Panic Is On
1931
Forgotten Sweeties
1927
His New Profession
1914
The golf player
1930
That Little Band Of Gold
1915
Are Brunettes Safe?
1927
Big Red Riding Hood
1925
A Versatile Villain
1915
The prince of the dollar
1930
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
1967
Poker at Eight
1935
One of the Family
1924
Love's Detour
1924
The Mind Needer
1938
Snappy Sneezer
1929
The Tabasco Kid
1932
The Great Toe Mystery
1914
The Caretaker's Daughter
1925
The Hustler
1921
From Bad to Worse
1937
Whispering Whoopee
1930
Dollar Dizzy
1930
A Lucky Leap
1915
Teacher's Pest
1939
His Musical Career
1914
No Father to Guide Him
1925
Follies of love
1930
A Nag in the Bag
1938
A gray in the air
1930
Many Scrappy Returns
1927
Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen
2007
Luncheon at Twelve
1933
Looser Than Loose
1930
The Family Entrance
1925
Never the Dames Shall Meet
1927
Don't Forget
1924
Hello Baby!
1925
The 'Fraidy Cat
1924
All Wet
1924
Live and Learn
1920
Should Husbands Be Watched?
1925
Keep the Bomb
1930
The Wrong Miss Wright
1937
A Ten-Minute Egg
1924
Ruby Lips
1929
4 Clowns
1970
All for Nothing
1928
Innocent Husbands
1925
Rough Seas
1931
The Dumb-Bell
1922
The Noise of Bombs
1914
Stolen Goods
1924
When Spirits Move
1920
His Best Girl
1921
Another Wild Idea
1934
Her Last Chance
1914
Jubilo, Jr.
1924
The Big Squawk
1929
Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
1914
Imagine My Embarrassment
1928
The Chases of Pimple Street
1934
Powder and Smoke
1924
The Cracked Ice Man
1934
The Perfect Lady
1924
A Favorite Fool
1915
Her Tender Feet
1919
Bad Boy
1925
Fatty's Magic Pants
1914
A One Night Stand
1915
Mum's the Word
1926
The Glorious Fourth
1927
The Stone Age
1922
In the Movies
1922
Modern Love
1929
Jeffries, Jr.
1924
The Love Thief
1914
Many Sappy Returns
1938
The Anglers
1914
Fallen Arches
1933
What a Bozo!
1931
The Pip from Pittsburg
1931
Settled at the Seaside
1915
Kids Is Kids
1920
It Happened One Day
1934
Charley My Boy!
1926
Kelly the Second
1936
The Lighter That Failed
1927
The Chump Takes a Bump
1939
A One Mama Man
1927
Is Everybody Happy?
1928
Tell 'Em Nothing
1926
Other People's Business
1914
Fifty Million Husbands
1930
Stepping Out
1929
Hash House Mashers
1915
Across the Hall
1914
His Silent Racket
1933
He Loved the Ladies
1914
Something Simple
1934
The Grand Hooter
1937
Loud Soup
1929
The Booster
1928
Sherman Said It
1933
Mystic Mush
1920
Shy in spite of himself
1930
He Wouldn't Stay Down
1915
The Count Takes the Count
1936
Young Oldfield
1924
Where Hazel Met the Villain
1914
Way Out West
1920
Public Ghost # 1
1935
Accidental Accidents
1924
Assistant Wives
1927
Why Husbands Go Mad
1924
Love and Salt Water
1914
All at Sea
1919
The soul of the party
1931
At First Sight
1924
Nature in the Wrong
1933
Man Bites Lovebug
1937
Mabel's New Job
1914
A Gambling Rube
1914
How Heroes Are Made
1914
The Uneasy Three
1925
Love in Armor
1915
The lady from Chicago
1931
Only a Farmer's Daughter
1915
The Nickel Snatcher
1920
A Coat's Tale
1914
Droppington's Devilish Deed
1915
Is Marriage the Bunk?
1925
Why Men Work
1924
Love, Loot and Crash
1915
Nurse to You!
1935
The Four Star Boarder
1935
Just a Real Good Car
1924
Dash, Love and Splash
1914
On the crew 128
Sons of the Desert
1933
Playmates
1918
Bone Dry
1922
April Fool
1920
Painless Love
1918
Hello Trouble
1918
Italian Love
1920
Okay Toots!
1935
365 Days
1922
Southern Exposure
1935
Four Parts
1934
Fresh Paint
1920
Rush Orders
1921
The Bargain of the Century
1933
Moonshine
1920
Arabian Tights
1933
Rolling Stone
1919
The Sap Takes a Wrap
1939
Mutts to You
1938
Midsummer Mush
1933
Newly Rich
1922
Call a Taxi!
1920
The Flirts
1919
Jack Frost
1923
On the Wrong Trek
1936
Vamp Till Ready
1936
A London Bobby
1920
The Three Stooges Follies
1974
Fifteen Minutes
1921
Courtship of Miles Sandwich
1923
Ankles Away
1938
Termites of 1938
1938
Touch all the Bases
1922
The Old Sea Dog
1922
Sold at Auction!
1923
Ship Ahoy
1919
Crazy Like a Fox
1926
Open Season for Saps
1944
Blow 'Em Up
1922
Fate's Fathead
1934
Dear Ol' Pal
1923
Neighborhood House
1936
Jus' Passin' Through
1923
A Hash House Fraud
1915
Halfway to Hollywood
1938
Hot Off the Press
1922
Pie a la Maid
1938
Tassels in the Air
1938
Don't Rock the Boat
1920
Manhattan Monkey Business
1935
Red Hot Hottentotts
1920
Saved by the Belle
1939
Do Me a Favor
1922
I'll Take Vanilla
1934
Waltz Me Around
1920
Blue Sunday
1921
You Said a Hatful!
1934
Chased Into Love
1917
Married to Order
1920
Before the Public
1923
Flat Foot Stooges
1938
The Cloud Puncher
1917
He's In Again
1918
Life Hesitates at 40
1935
Her First False Hare
1919
Their Fatal Bumping
1914
Violent Is the Word for Curly
1938
Poker at Eight
1935
The Old Raid Mule
1938
Don't Park Here
1919
A Nag in the Bag
1938
Luncheon at Twelve
1933
Oh, What a Knight!
1937
What a Whopper!
1921
Boom Goes the Groom
1939
Full o' Pep
1922
On Location
1921
A Dash of Courage
1916
The Dumb-Bell
1922
When Spirits Move
1920
His Best Girl
1921
Another Wild Idea
1934
The Chases of Pimple Street
1934
The Cracked Ice Man
1934
Mutiny on the Body
1939
Her Tender Feet
1919
Off Again, On Again
1945
One Night Only
1919
The Stone Age
1922
Tough Luck
1919
In the Movies
1922
All Dressed Up
1920
The Love Thief
1914
Many Sappy Returns
1938
The Anglers
1914
Giving the Bride Away
1919
A Tough Winter
1923
Kids Is Kids
1920
It Happened One Day
1934
Years to Come
1922
Tell 'Em Nothing
1926
Getting His Goat
1920
At the Ringside
1921
His Silent Racket
1933
There's Many a Fool
1917
Something Simple
1934
Sherman Said It
1933
Mystic Mush
1920
Static in the Attic
1939
He Wouldn't Stay Down
1915
The Count Takes the Count
1936
Coppers and Scents
1919
His Merry Mix-Up
1917
Hearts and Sparks
1916
Bright and Early
1918
Public Ghost # 1
1935
Hop to It, Bellhop
1919
Order in the Court
1919
The Floor Below
1919
Gracie at the Bat
1937
All at Sea
1919
Nature in the Wrong
1933
Man Bites Lovebug
1937
How Heroes Are Made
1914
The Nickel Snatcher
1920
Music in Your Hair
1934
Nurse to You!
1935
The Four Star Boarder
1935