Annazette Chase

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Annazette Chase
Born
Annecetta Williams

(1943-05-20) May 20, 1943 (age 80) [1]
Los Angeles, California, U.S. [2]
Years active1964-1984

Annazette Chase (born May 20, 1943) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films The Mack (1973) and Truck Turner (1974). [1] She also portrayed Muhammad Ali's wife Belinda in The Greatest (1977), in which Ali played himself. [1] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] She began her career with uncredited bits in Chamber of Horrors (1966) and Hotel (1967). [1] She was also in Part 2, Sounder (1976) [1] [10] [11] [12] [13] and Blume in Love (1973). [14]

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Her last film to date was The Toy (1982) with Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason. [1] [15] Chase was picked by Pryor to be in The Toy after they collaborated in The Mack. [2]

Chase was in four episodes of Burke's Law with Gene Barry and two episodes of Ben Casey , as well as guest starring on Perry Mason , The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , Dragnet (1967 TV series) , Get Smart and The White Shadow . She made a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live on December 13, 1975, in a sketch with Dan Aykroyd. [1] In 1971, Chase appeared in the 1971 television movie, Marriage: Year One. In 1979, she appeared the television movies Goldie and the Boxer and 11th Victim . [16]

Chase was raised in San Luis Obispo, where her father ran a soul food restaurant, Sister's Inn. She used to help out in the restaurant and learned cooking there. [14] According to Jet , Chase has resided in London as of 1982. [2] [17]

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  2. 1 2 3 "KEEPING TABS ON CELEBS". Jet . Johnson Publishing Company. 27 December 1982. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
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