|
|
 |
|
rihanna
|
FindIt-Celebrities (com) is the leading Celebrity website, providing quality information and search services on Celebrities and Celebrity / movie reviews. We feature thousands of Celebrity reviews - from the most popular Celebrities to the least popular to the highly unusual, uncommon and unique, including hundreds of new Celebrities that only recently have been coined or rediscovered. Due to popular demand we created a Celebrity forum which is online community of members discussing Celebrities. Uncover popular variations, nicknames, trends, meanings, derivations, history, and religious significance for each and every name - in short, everything you could think of!! Credit is attributed to researchers and scholars whose works are referenced. In addition, the Celebrities database also features numerous contributions from helpful users all over the world.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Add To Favorites |
|
NAME:
|
Chevy Chase |
|
PROFILE:
|
Name: Chevy Chase Birth Name: Cornelius Crane Chase Height: 6' 4" Sex: M Nationality: American Birth Date: October 8, 1943 Birth Place: Woodstock, New York, USA Profession: Actor, Comedian, Writer Education: Dalton School, New York, New York Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Riverdale Country School in New York City Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (graduated in 1967 with a BA degree in English) Husband/Wife: Jaynie Chase (nee. Luke; married on March 16, 1982), Jacqueline Carlin (actress; married on December 4, 1976), Susan Hewitt Mother: Cathalene Parker Browning (concert pianist; died in 2005) Brother: Edward Thornton Chase Half Sister: Pamela Widdowes (director), Cynthia Chase-Culler, Daphne C. Rowe, Pamela Cederquist, Catherine Cederquist Half Brother: John Cederquist Grand Father: Frank Swift Chase (paternal grandfather; painter/teacher), Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane (adoptive maternal grandfather), Admiral Miles Browning (maternal grandfather) Grand Mother: Catharine Isabella Parker (maternal grandmother) Step Father: Lawrence Widdowes (professor/composer; her mother's third marriage), John Cederquist Step Mother: Ethelyn Atha Chase Daughter: Emily Evelyn Chase (born in 1988; mother: Jayni Chase), Caley Leigh Chase (born in 1984; mother Jayni Chase), Cydney Cathalene Chase (born in 1982; mother Jayni Chase) Claim to fame: As cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live and in the film Caddyshack (1980) Contact: Click here
|
|
GOSSIP:
|
- Behind his clownish facade, he keeps horrific memories of a childhood of beatings and psychological torture by a mentally ill mom and twisted stepdad. In a new authorized biography, I'm Chevy Chase . . . And You're Not, the comedian revealed her mother would lock him in a closet for hours at a time and woke him up in the middle of the night to slap him continually and hard, across the face. I don't remember what it was for, or what I had done. (2007)
- Admitted in an interview that making THREE AMIGOS (1986) was the most fun he has had on a film.
- Appeared alongside Paul Simon in the music video You Can Call Me Al, in which he lip-syncs all of Simon's lines.
- At 6' 4, he was the tallest original cast member of Saturday Night Live and was the first tall guy on the show, cast members over 6 feet who usually dwarf their smaller cast mates. Among the other tall guys to follow were Dan Aykroyd, Dean Edwards, Will Ferrell, Anthony Michael Hall, David Koechner, Norm MacDonald, Finesse Mitchell, Bill Murray, Kevin Nealon, Randy Quaid, Rob Riggle, Charles Rocket, Damon Wayans, and Fred Wolf. Only Nealon and Quaid equaled Chase in height.
- At the height of his career he earned around $7 million per film.
- Biography in: Who's Who in Comedy by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 102-103. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387.
- Chevy Chase is also the name of a 16th century ballad about the battle between Earl Douglas and Earl Percy.
- Chevy was actually a childhood nickname -- possibly based on the Baltimore, Maryland suburb -- bestowed by his grandmother. The Chase family was affluent and distinguished, and Chevy was listed in Social Register at early age. His paternal grandfather was painter/teacher Frank Swift Chase; his father, Ned Chase, was a prominent Manhattan book editor and magazine writer. His mother was descended from the Crane plumbing-fixture family.
- Convicted of drunk driving. (1995)
- Fans often imitate his famous, straight-faced, I like it!.”
- Has a street named after him in Cochranton PA (NWPA). - Chevy Chase Street
- Has a street named after him in New Orleans, Louisiana. Possibly for the Southern U.S. setting of FLETCH LIVES (1988).
- Has perfect pitch, a musical ability to remember the exact frequency of a note.
- Has said that he regrets leaving Saturday Night Live (1975) after just one year.
- He appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song Voices That Care.
- MORE CHEVY CHASE TRIVIA
|
|
Add To Favorites |
|
|
|