Charley Chase Megapack | RELIABLE • Anthology |

Unlike the slapstick of the Keystone Cops, Chase played a dapper, middle-class man whose life falls apart through social awkwardness and misunderstanding.

Born Charles Parrott in 1893, Charley Chase was a true multi-hyphenate of early cinema. He was an accomplished actor, a visionary director (often under his real name), a singer, and a writer. While Chaplin played the tragicomic outcast and Keaton played the stoic victim of circumstance, Chase carved out a unique niche: the everyday, middle-class suburban man. Charley Chase MegaPack