Charley Chase [SEP] cause of death
Parrott's death. He coped with the loss by throwing himself into his work and by drinking more heavily than ever, despite doctors' warnings. The stress ultimately caught up with him; just over a year after his brother's death, Charley Chase died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California, on June 20, 1940. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery near his wife Bebe Eltinge in Glendale, California.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Charley Chase received a star on
edited down to two reels and finally released as one last Charley Chase short, "Neighborhood House". Chase was then dismissed from the Roach studio.
Later years and death.
In 1937, Chase began working at Columbia Pictures, where he spent the rest of his career starring in his own series of two-reel comedies, as well as producing and directing other Columbia comedies, including those of The Three Stooges and Andy Clyde. He directed the Stooges' classic "Violent Is the Word for Curly" (