Movies: Charley Chase

Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in Melvin's bedroom just before Mame returns....

Boy meets girl. Father hates boy. Girl dresses up as her brother to get out of the house to elope but the near-sighted father mistakes her for the twin brother and all chaos follows....

Charley Chase plays the type of character he does best, which is a weak nerd who is constantly letting people push him around. This happens at his work when a co-worker sneaks off with the boss's daughter who just happens to be the crush for Charley....

Aching Youth is a silent comedy short...

Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain....

A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend, gives him an anonymous note, stating that the bride has a wooden leg....

Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast fortune....

A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his landlady, who wants the overdue rent. When a pretty girl shows up, Charley and his downstairs neighbor, wh...

The governor's (Snub) life is in constant jeopardy because of the bomb throwers who use every conceivable means to get him....

Jimmy Jump has a "plain" girlfriend, and becomes intrigued by a "fancy" girl he spots in a park. Eventually he realizes he is better off with his no-frills girl....

Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter....

Often hysterical spoof of Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE (and several others of his crime movies) has Charley Chase playing the mastermind of a dimwitted trio of thieves who plan on stealing a priceless jewel....

Jimmy Jump gets rather wet....

The situation is typically embarrassing and unlikely-but-possible for Charley, but it is at the same time such a simple idea -- Charley shows off by taking a pretty girl back home, wreaks havoc trying to get her in, then discovers that she's married....

Charley Chase on a boat with girls....

Charley is hired to haunt a house....

A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917)....

A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous boxer-husband is obsessed with killing Charley after seeing them together again and again....

Silent Hank Mann comedy set in a haunted house....

Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome....