Cornelius Crane “Chevy” Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. Born into a prominent family, he had a variety of jobs before moving into comedy and started acting with National Lampoon. He became a key cast member in the first season of Saturday Night Live (which included Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Lorraine Newman, and Gilda Radner), where his recurring Weekend Update segment became a staple of the show. As both a performer and writer, he earned three Primetime Emmy Awards out of five nominations.
Chase had his first leading film role in Colin Higgins’s Foul Play (1978), with Goldie Hawn, Dudley Moore, Burgess Meredith, Eugene Roche, Rachel Roberts, Brian Dennehy and Billy Barty; earning two Golden Globe Award nominations. He is further known for his portrayals of Ty Webb in Harold Ramis‘s Caddyshack (1980), with Ted Knight, Rodney Dangerfield, and Bill Murray; Clark W. Griswold Jr. in five National Lampoon’s Vacation films (all with Beverly D’Angelo) and Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher in Fletch (1985), with Tim Matheson, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Geena Davis and Joe Don Baker; and its sequel Fletch Lives (1989), with with Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R. Lee Ermey, Richard Libertini, & Cleavon Little
Other prominent titles include Seems Like Old Times (1980), with Hawn and Charles Grodin; John Landis‘s Spies Like Us (1985), with Aykroyd; Three Amigos (1986), with Steve Martin and Martin Short; George Roy Hill‘s Funny Farm (1988), with Madelyn Smith; Nothing But Trouble (1991), with Aykroyd (who also directed), Demi Moore, and John Candy; Michael Ritchie’s Cops & Robbersons (1994), with Jack Palance, Dianne Wiest, and Robert Davi; Jake Kasdan’s Orange County (2002), with Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Catherine O’Hara, and John Lithgow; Stay Cool (2009), with Winona Ryder, Mark Polish, Hilary Duff, Sean Astin, Josh Holloway, and Jon Cryer; Steve Pink’s Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), with John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Crispin Glover, and Lizzy Caplan; and Adam Rifkin’s The Last Movie Star (2017), with Burt Reynolds.
He has hosted the Academy Awards twice (1987 and 1988) and briefly had his own late-night talk show, The Chevy Chase Show (1993). He played the character Pierce Hawthorne on the NBC comedy series Community (with Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Ken Jeong, and Jim Rash) from 2009 to 2014.
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Walk… Don’t Walk (1968) – directed by Rich Allen – short
- Singing Faces (1968) – directed by Ken Shapiro – short
- The One Arm Bandit (1971) directed by Rich Allen – short
- Energy Crisis (1974) – directed by Dave Wilson – uncredited – TV movie
- The Groove Tube (1974) – directed by Ken Shapiro
- Tunnel Vision (1976) – directed by Neal Israel & Bradley R. Swirnoff
- Foul Play (1978) – directed by Colin Higgins
- Oh! Heavenly Dog (1980) – directed by Joe Camp
- Caddyshack (1980) – directed by Harold Ramis
- Seems Like Old Times (1980) – directed by Jay Sandrich
- Under the Rainbow (1981) – directed by Steve Rash
- Modern Problems (1981) – directed by Ken Shapiro
- National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) – directed by Harold Ramis
- Deal of the Century (1983) – directed by William Friedkin
- Fletch (1985) – directed by Michael Ritchie
- National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985) – directed by Amy Heckerling
- Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985) – directed by Ken Kwapis – cameo
- Spies Like Us (1985) – directed by John Landis
- Three Amigos (1986) – directed by John Landis
- The Couch Trip (1988) – directed by Michael Ritchie – cameo
- Funny Farm (1988) – directed by George Roy Hill
- Caddyshack II (1988) – directed by Allan Arkush
- Fletch Lives (1989) – directed by Michael Ritchie
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)** – directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik
- Nothing but Trouble (1991) – directed by Dan Aykroyd
- L.A. Story (1991) – directed by Mick Jackson – cameo
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) – directed by John Carpenter
- Hero (1992) – directed by Stephen Frears – uncredited
- Last Action Hero (1993)* – directed by John McTiernan – cameo as himself
- A Century of Cinema (1994) – directed by Caroline Thomas – himself – documentary
- Cops & Robbersons (1994) – directed by Michael Ritchie
- Man of the House (1995)* – directed by James Orr
- Vegas Vacation (1997) – directed by Stephen Kessler
- Dirty Work (1998) – directed by Bob Saget
- Snow Day (2000)* – directed by Chris Koch
- Pete’s Pizza (2000) – directed by Gary Goldberger & Peter H. Reynolds – narrator – short
- Ellie Parker (2001) – directed by Scott Coffey – short
- E-Day! (2001) – directed by Scott Dikkers – short
- Orange County (2002)* – directed by Jake Kasdan
- America’s Most Terrible Things (2002) – directed by John Pasquin – TV movie
- Vacuums (2003) – directed by Luke Cresswell & Steve McNicholas
- Bitter Jester (2003) – directed by Maija DiGiorgio – himself – documentary
- Our Italian Husband (2004) – directed by Ilaria Borrelli – aka Rent-a-Husband or Mariti in affitto – Italy
- Bad Meat (2004) – directed by Scott Dikkers – direct-to-DVD
- The Karate Dog (2005) – directed by Bob Clark – TV movie
- Ellie Parker (2005) – directed by Scott Coffey
- Goose on the Loose (2006) – directed by Nicholas Kendall – direct-to-DVD
- Doogal (2006) – directed by Dave Borthwick, Jean Duval, & Frank Passingham – aka The Magic Roundabout – Pollux – Le manège enchanté – US Dub – France/UK
- Funny Money (2006) – directed by Leslie Grief
- Zoom (2006) – directed by Peter Hewitt
- Cutlass (2007) – directed by Kate Hudson – short
- Stay Cool (2009) – directed by Michael Polish (credited as Ted Smith)
- Jack and the Beanstalk (2009) – directed by Gary J. Tunnicliffe
- Hotel Hell Vacation (2010) – directed by Bryan Buckley – short
- Presidential Reunion (2010) – directed by Ron Howard & Jake Szymanski – short
- Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)* – directed by Steve Pink
- Not Another Not Another Movie (2011) – directed by David Murphy – direct-to-DVD
- Before I Sleep (2013) – directed by Aaron & Billy Sharff
- Lovesick (2014) – directed by Luke Matheny
- Wishin’ and Hopin’ (2014) – directed by Colin Theys – TV movie
- Shelby – directed by Brian K. Roberts – direct-to-DVD
- Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015) – directed by Steve Pink
- Vacation (2015) – directed by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley
- Hedgehogs (2016) – directed by Jianming Huang – China/US- direct-to-DVD
- Christmas in Vermont (2016) – directed by Fred Olen Ray – TV movie
- The Last Movie Star (2017) – directed by Adam Rifkin
- The Last Laugh (2019) – directed by Greg Pritikin
- Panda vs. Aliens (2019) – directed by Sean Patrick O’Reilly – direct-to-DVD
- The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (2020) – directed by Dean Murphy
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