- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- December 29, 1934
- Place of Birth
- —
- Died
- December 20, 2025
Ronald Chase
Ronald Chase (born December 29, 1934) is an American artist, photographer, educator, independent film maker and opera designer. In 1963, Chase began making short experimental films with Fragments, written by Mary Lee Settle and filmed in the Hudson Valley. In 1964, he began experimenting with using film projections in theatre and dance performances. These experiments produced the films The Covenant, Chameleon and Clown, as well as Parade, a short documentary of the first Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade in San Francisco. Chase produced and directed two features in the 1970s. Bruges-La-Morte premiered at the 1978 Rotterdam Film Festival and was awarded the Critics Prize at the International Film Festival Ghent in 1980. LULU, adapted from the play by Frank Wedekind, screened at a number of festivals and was chosen as one of the three best films of 1978 by Pariscope, but could not be released b…
Filmography
movieGay USA: Snapshots of 1970s LGBT Resistance
2024 · Director
movieJezebel
2006 · Director
movieBeatrice Cenci (On a Painting by Carravaggio)
2003 · Director
movieEver Since the World Ended
2001 · Teacher
movieFantasia on the Childhood of Busoni
1981 · Director
movieLulu
1978 · Director, Director of Photography
movieBruges-La-Morte
1978 · Director, Cinematography, Writer, Editor
movieCelebration of Life: Trees
1973 · Editor
movieSan Francisco Christmas Breakfast
1972 · Director
movieParade
1972 · Director
movieBeatrice Cenci
1972 · Director
movieSally Simpson
1971 · Director
movieA Village Romeo
1971 · Director
movieCathedral
1971 · Director
movieScene One: Take One
1971 · Director
movieChameleon
1969 · Director, Camera Operator, Writer
movieClown
1969 · Director, Writer
movieThe Covenant
1965 · Director
movieFragments
1964 · , Director, Writer