{{Short description|American silent film actor}} {{for|the professor of English|Colin Robert Chase}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Colin Chase | image = A Cry at Midnight (1916) - 1.jpg | caption = Director Robert Ross, production company president Robert Broadwell, Mae Gaston, Thomas Carrigan, and Mrs. Colin Chase and Colin Chase on location for ''A Cry at Midnight'' (1916) | birth_date = April 13, 1886 | death_date = {{death date and age|1937|4|25|1886|4|13}} | occupation = Film actor | years_active = 1915–1937 }}
'''Colin Chase''' (April 13, 1886 – April 25, 1937) was an American silent film actor.
==Biography== Born in 1886 in Lewiston, Idaho, Chase signed for his first film role in 1915 and starred in about 45 films. In 1916, he signed a long-term contract with the Morosco-Pallas company.<ref>{{cite news |title=Colin Chase Engaged |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79892225/colin-chase/ |access-date=June 20, 2021 |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |date=August 27, 1916 |page=36|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>
Chase often was cast as a villain in Westerns, sometimes being billed as "Bud Chase". As a supporting player with Fox and other studios, he made the transition to sound films. He had been a cartoonist for a newspaper in Chicago and had performed in vaudeville.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wollstein |first1=Hans J. |title=Colin Chase |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/colin-chase-p12491 |website=AllMovie |access-date=June 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620020700/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/colin-chase-p12491 |archive-date=June 20, 2021}}</ref>
Chase died on April 25, 1937, after an illness of several weeks, and one week after he had become "stricken with paralysis" from either a stroke or an illness.<ref>{{cite news |title=Colin Chase Taken by Death— Paralysis Attack Fatal to Cjaracter Actpr|work=The Los Angeles Times |date=April 26, 1937 |page=II-1}}</ref> in Sawtelle, California.<ref>{{cite news |title=Colin Chase, Film Actor in Character Roles, D |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/04/26/archives/colin-chase.html |access-date=June 20, 2021 |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=April 26, 1937 |page=19}}</ref>
==Partial filmography== * ''Father and the Boys'' (1915) * ''The Grip of Jealousy'' (1916) * ''Tangled Hearts'' (1916) * ''The Making of Maddalena'' (1916) * ''The Parson of Panamint'' (1916) * ''The Road to Love'' (1916) * ''The Right Direction'' (1916) * ''Her Own People'' (1917) * ''The Spirit of Romance'' (1917) * ''The Bond Between'' (1917) * ''A Strange Transgressor'' (1917) * ''A Branded Soul'' (1917) * ''The Moral Law'' (1918) * ''Ace High'' (1918) * ''Wives and Other Wives'' (1918) * ''Bucking the Barrier'' (1923) * ''Snowdrift'' (1923) * ''The Godless Girl'' (1929) * ''The Air Legion'' (1929) * ''Big News'' (1929) * ''The Lone Star Ranger'' (1930) * ''The Vanishing Riders'' (1935) * ''The Cyclone Ranger'' (1935)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|Colin Chase}} * {{IMDb name|0153702}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chase, Colin}} Category:1886 births Category:1937 deaths Category:American male silent film actors Category:Male actors from Idaho Category:People from Lewiston, Idaho Category:20th-century American male actors Category:Male Western (genre) film actors