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Chevy Chase

Highest Rated: 94% National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

Lowest Rated: 0% Under the Rainbow (1981)

Birthday: Oct 8, 1943

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Birthplace: Lower Manhattan, New York, USA

With the words, "Good evening - I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not," comedic actor Chevy Chase struck a chord with television audiences who delighted each week as the accident-prone goofball stumbled his way through sketches in the early days of "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 1975- ). With his aloof wit and detached demeanor, he represented a radical departure from angry comics of the day like George Carlin and Richard Pryor. Leaving "SNL" at the height of his fame in 1976, Chase segued smoothly into stardom on the big screen in such comedy triumphs as "Foul Play" (1975), "Caddyshack" (1980) and "National Lampoon's Vacation" (1983). He continued to rise with his classic turn as the bumbling investigative reporter, "Fletch" (1985), and reprised the bespectacled doofus Clark Griswald for "European Vacation" (1985). But from there, his career hit a long, slow slide with movies like "The Funny Farm" (1988), "Caddyshack II" (1988) and "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" (1992). Following a short-lived stint as a late night talk show host - a televised train wreck if there ever was one - Chase wallowed in the nadir of a career that at once looked bright and everlasting. Meanwhile, his reported reputation for being difficult and his addiction to cocaine was chronicled in numerous tell-all "SNL" books. But he emerged decades later with an acclaimed supporting turn on the hit show "Community" (NBC, 2009-15; Yahoo!, 2015), which showed that Chase's brilliance as a giant in the pantheon of great twentieth century comedians had not waned.

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Highest rated movies

94% 85% National Lampoon's Vacation
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92% 72% Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird
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91% 82% Belushi
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89% 81% Love, Gilda Watchlist
79% 81% Fletch
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74% 69% Foul Play
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72% 87% Caddyshack Watchlist 70% 86% National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Watchlist
70% 64% Seems Like Old Times
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67% 51% Hero
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Christmas Letter Unknown (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet 79% Glisten and the Merry Mission Santa (Voice) - 2023
50% 53% Zombie Town Mezmerian (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet 58% Panda vs. Aliens King Karoth (Voice) - 2021
18% 41% The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee Chevy (Character) - 2020
91% 82% Belushi Self - 2020
53% 37% The Last Laugh Al Hart (Character) - 2019
89% 81% Love, Gilda Self $624.2K 2018
61% 73% The Last Movie Star Sonny (Character) $8.0K 2017
No Score Yet 20% The Christmas Apprentice Preston Bullock (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 21% Bobby the Hedgehog Unknown (Voice) - 2016
27% 45% Vacation Clark Griswold (Character) $58.9M 2015
14% 26% Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Repairman (Character) $12.3M 2015
No Score Yet 95% Wishin' and Hopin' Narrator - 2014
No Score Yet 36% Shelby: The Dog Who Saved Christmas Unknown (Character) - 2014
29% 21% Lovesick Lester Horn (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 67% Before I Sleep Gravedigger (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 10% Not Another Not Another Movie Max Storm (Character) - 2011
64% 56% Hot Tub Time Machine Repairman (Character) $50.2M 2010
14% 24% Stay Cool Principal Marshall (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 31% Jack and the Beanstalk Gen. Antipode (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 20% Goose! Congreve Maddox (Character) - 2007
43% 30% Funny Money Henry (Character) $1.8K 2006
5% 33% Zoom Dr. Grant (Character) $11.6M 2006
9% 22% Doogal Train (Voice) $7.6M 2006
52% 43% Ellie Parker Dennis Swartzbaum (Character) $34.4K 2005
No Score Yet 20% Bad Meat Congressman Bernard P. Greely (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 27% Karate Dog Cho Cho (Voice) - 2004
No Score Yet 10% Rent-a-Husband Paul Parmesan (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Century of Black Cinema Unknown (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bitter Jester Unknown (Character) - 2003
47% 61% Orange County Principal Harbert (Character) $41.0M 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Vacuums Mr. Punch (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pete's a Pizza Narrator - 2000
30% 27% Snow Day Tom Brandston (Character) $60.0M 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet SNL: 25 Years of Music Host - 1999
14% 66% Dirty Work Dr. Farthing (Character) $10.0M 1998
15% 51% Vegas Vacation Clark Griswold (Character) $36.4M 1997
13% 33% Man of the House Jack Sturgess (Character) - 1995
18% 23% Cops and Robbersons Norman Robberson (Character) $10.5M 1994
28% 33% Memoirs of an Invisible Man Nick Halloway (Character) $13.4M 1992
67% 51% Hero Deke (Character) $18.2M 1992
15% 48% Nothing but Trouble Chris Thorne (Character) $7.5M 1991
70% 86% National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Clark Wilhelm Griswold, Jr. (Character) $70.0M 1989
35% 55% Fletch Lives Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher (Character) $32.9M 1989
4% 17% Caddyshack II Ty Webb (Character) $11.3M 1988
64% 51% Funny Farm Andy Farmer (Character) $25.3M 1988
33% 44% The Couch Trip Condom Father (Character) $9.9M 1988
45% 67% Three Amigos! Dusty Bottoms (Character) $36.2M 1986
92% 72% Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird Newscaster (Character) - 1985
79% 81% Fletch Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher (Character) - 1985
35% 56% Spies Like Us Emmett Fitz-Hume (Character) $56.5M 1985
37% 49% National Lampoon's European Vacation Clark Wilhelm Griswold, Jr. (Character) - 1985
10% 19% Deal of the Century Eddie Muntz (Character) - 1983
94% 85% National Lampoon's Vacation Clark Wilhelm Griswold, Jr. (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 31% Modern Problems Max Fielder (Character) - 1981
0% 49% Under the Rainbow Bruce Thorpe (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet 44% Oh, Heavenly Dog! Browning (Character) - 1980
70% 64% Seems Like Old Times Nicholas Gardenia (Character) - 1980
72% 87% Caddyshack Ty Webb (Character) - 1980
74% 69% Foul Play Tony Carlson (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tunnelvision Self - 1976
14% 59% The Groove Tube The Fingers/Geritan/Four Leaf Clover (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lemmings Unknown (Character) - 1973

TV

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40% 98% Norm Macdonald Has a Show Guest 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet 20/20 Guest 2017
No Score Yet 84% Hot in Cleveland Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
88% 88% Community Pierce (Character) 2009-2013
No Score Yet 57% Saturday Night Live Unknown (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star),
Guest,
Host
1975-1978 1980-1982 1985-1986 1992 1995-1997 2013
No Score Yet 41% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bonnie Hunt Show Guest 2009
No Score Yet 64% Family Guy Clark Griswold (Guest Voice) 2007 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Guest 2009
90% 91% Chuck Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
79% 84% Brothers & Sisters Stan Harris (Guest Star) 2007
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet 73% The Nanny Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
0% No Score Yet The Chevy Chase Show Host 1993
45% No Score Yet The Academy Awards Host 1987-1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Van Dyke & Company Guest 1976