Duane Chase Biography
Duane Chase(Duane Dudley Chase) is an American software engineer and former actor best remembered as Kurt von Trapp in The Sound of Music “1965”. He played Danny Matthews in The Big Valley for one episode.
In the summer of 1969, Chase joined the United States Forest Service in Santa Barbara, California after graduating from Rolling Hills High School of Rolling Hills, California. Chase then enrolled at the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated in 1976 with a B.S. in geology.
After working at a Chevron refinery in Denver for a year, he then enrolled at the University of Alabama and earned a master’s degree in geology.
Today, he lives in Seattle and designs computer software for geologists and geophysicists. He is married to Petra Maria who was born in Hamburg, Germany, and is a Registered Nurse, “RN”.
Duane Chase Age
The American software engineer and former actor best remembered as Kurt von Trapp in The Sound of Music “1965”. Was born on December 12. 1950 in Los Angeles, CA. He is 68 years old as of 2018.
Duane Chase Net Worth
Duane began acting in commercials when he was 11years old, along with a bit of modeling work. He left show business after high school, moving out of Los Angeles and for a time fought fires with the forestry service. He is now a computer software analyst/designer for oil and mining companies. He enjoys climbing mountains and lives outside of Seattle, Washington. His net worth as of 2019 is estimated to be $8,540,307 million Dollars.
Duane Chase Movies
- 1965 The Sound of Music as Kurt(1965)
- 1966 Follow Me, Boys! as Joe(1966)
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Duane Chase The Sound Of Music
Chase was thirteen years old when he was cast as Kurt von Trapp, the honest and inquisitive 11-year-old fourth child in The Sound of Music (1965). Decades have passed since then, but the former child actor has enjoyed many more adventures with and without mountains. I recently had the pleasure of catching up with Duane Chase for my special Sound of Music series for Parade.com and my podcast Whine At 9. Our fascinating conversation sheds some light on the secrets behind the continued popularity of this beloved film.
Having chatted with a few of his onscreen siblings before our conversation, I’d gotten wind that there were some similarities between Duane Chase and his onscreen character, Kurt von Trapp. Chase good-naturedly agreed. “I think Bob Wise, at least in part, kind of did some typecasting. Kurt was a little precocious and I think perhaps my personality probably fit that role pretty well.”
On location in Austria, Chase found himself drawn to and intrigued by the geology. And there was no denying the explorer in Duane Chase, even as a teen. Chase chuckles as he recalls a few wayward experiences on set. “I did take off at times, totally unannounced to cast, crew, and just about anybody else—only to not be there when we had to start filming again. And nobody knew where I was. One day when we were out doing the bicycle scene, we had lunch. I finished lunch. I jumped on the bike.
I took off on a little excursion. Not wearing a watch at 13. Not really paying too much attention. At that time I got ‘the eye’ from Bob Wise. Other times I’d go off on little hikes, so our teacher and our drivers, who kind of kept an eye on us, didn’t know where I was and I was off around a corner on some outcrop of rock just enjoying myself… kind of just taking off unannounced to explore.”
This is apparently how the familiar phrase, “Where’s Duane?” came to be. Castmate Debbie Turner, who portrayed Marta von Trapp, recalls her friend’s curiosity with fondness. “He wanted to go and explore things. And to this day, we still, every now and then have to go, ‘Where’s Duane?’”
The trip to Austria was Chase’s favorite part of the Sound of Music experience, particularly the field trips he and the other children would take with their teacher, who spoke fluent German. “She would pile all of us except Charmy into two Volkswagen buses and we’d take off and go to the salt mines and the ice caves and we’d take cable cars up to the tops of mountains and old steam engines—I mean, it was an incredible geography experience beyond the actual filming.”
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Duane has several favorite scenes from the movie: “Falling out of the rowboat, some of the bicycling during Do Re Mi, the final scene where we ‘hiked’ over the mountains and the picnic scene,” he reports. “The last two are favorites because of the scenery. In the mountains behind the picnic, the scene is the Werfen Ice Caves which we visited on as a school outing.”
Duane recalls how several of the children lost teeth during the filming. “I included. So we had plates made with our missing teeth. Made for some interesting singing rehearsals trying to sing clearly. And many of us needed lifts in our shoes to maintain our relative heights over the six-month filming.”
The youngsters playing the von Trapp children bonded during rehearsal and filming, and remain in touch to this day. “In Austria, we had to go to school together until mid-June. After that, the tutor would take us out to see the ice caves and salt mines, or field trips to other parts of the country…gorgeous, gorgeous mountains. For the most part, we got along because we were in our own little groups. The youngest girls were only five and six or seven. Heather and Angela were Beatle-crazy. I hung out with Nick sometimes (who played Friedrich), but I was also interested in the behind-the-scenes stuff, talking to the grips, to the sound guy or the camera operator.
“Everyone always wants to know about Julie Andrews. She was quite funny, with a British sense of humor. And she was really very sweet; I know she kept an eye on us kids, she tended to herd us, nanny us at times. Her daughter Emma was only about two and oftentimes during our breaks, Julie would spread out a blanket on the floor for Emma. We would all pile on the blanket, play cards or just spend time together while they were resetting the camera or waiting for the weather to pass.” Julie Andrews also sang Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins to the kids between filming and even taught them how to sing it backward.
Of the seven kids, the six youngest ranged in age from five to fourteen. “We hadn’t planned to keep in contact, it just happened,” says Duane about their lifelong bond. In part, it was because of public demands for cast reunions.
“There have been a lot of reunion points since 1965, including the Oprah Winfrey Show five years ago. It is always fun and we have a good time together,” he says of the reunions. “We sit down for dinner or just hang out. Julie and the kids, and sometimes Chris [Plummer] have been together many times on TV. We’ve scattered around and the reunions give us a chance to reconnect. As it turns out, we [the kids] have been in almost constant touch by phone and through email.”
What is also intriguing is that they are in touch with the real von Trapps.
“Several of us have maintained contact with the folks who lived the real story, or now their children or grandchildren,” says Duane. The first time the real von Trapps met the “non-Trapp” children was around 1998 when the Austrian tourist Board honored the group. “That was when I met Werner von Trapp. My character Kurt was based on Werner. We stayed in touch after that first meeting.” After Werner passed away, Duane kept in contact with Werner’s wife, Erica. Duane, his wife Petra and several other kids from the movie visited the von Trapp family lodge in Stowe, Vermont, where they planted an apple tree to honor Werner.
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Duane Chase was thirteen years old when he was cast as Kurt von Trapp, the honest and inquisitive 11-year-old fourth child in The Sound of Music “1965”.Having chatted with a few of his onscreen siblings before our conversation, I’d gotten wind that there were some similarities between Duane Chase and his onscreen character, Kurt von Trapp. Chase good-naturedly agreed. “I think [director/producer] Bob Wise, at least in part, kind of did some typecasting. Kurt was a little precocious and I think perhaps my personality probably fit that role pretty well.”
Chase Duane Mullins
YELL COUNTY, Ark. (KATV) — The sudden death of a toddler has a Yell County community shaken up. Chase Duane Mullins, 20, is charged with first-degree murder of his girlfriend’s son, 2-year-old Remington Rainey.
Tricycles and toys lay still in the front yard of the Mullins home. The very yard where Remington played not too long ago.
“I used to drive by here several times a day,” said longtime neighbor Alan Branch. “On a nice pretty day he and his mom would be outside and he’d be playing. It’s just not going to be the same.”
Branch says he’s known Chase all his life and he’d seen Remington a handful of times. But gone are the days of a happy, bouncy little boy. His life was cut short on Nov. 29th when, according to court documents, he was beaten to death. Court documents show the child died of “blunt force trauma to the head”. His death was ruled a homicide by the Arkansas State Crime Lab Medical Examiner’s Office.
“He was always real friendly and running around and full of energy just like any other little boy,” Branch added.
Branch said that what Chase is accused of doing is just not like him.
“Chase wouldn’t hurt nobody,” he said. “He was a kind, gentle person. That’s the way I always remembered him.”
On Dec. 3, Remington’s mother Emily Markham filed for an order of protection against Mullins. In those documents, Markham alleges that on Nov. 29, the day Rainey was killed, Mullins threw her to the ground, was verbally abusive to the toddler and threatened to kill her.
Branch believes drugs are what ultimately caused Mullins to be accused of killing the toddler.
“It wasn’t Chase that done it,” he said. “It was the drugs that done it.”
Remington leaves behind his mother and a sister.
Mullins is set to appear in court Jan. 3.
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JPMorgan prepares to pull Chase ATMs from Walgreens stores
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A decade after JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) said with great fanfare that it would make life easier for customers by putting its cash machines into Duane Reade drug stores in New York City and Walgreens stores in Florida, the big bank is retreating.
Customers who use the ATMs marked with Chase’s blue octagon logo in those drug stores are beginning to be met with the message: “Soon this machine will no longer be a Chase ATM.”
The new message is the public start of a withdrawal that stems from an agreement the largest U.S. bank by assets made in April to sell 2,586 cash machines – primarily in Walgreens and Duane Reade drug stores, and other retailers – to ATM operator Cardtronics (CATM.O) for an undisclosed amount.
The exact timing depends on how quickly the machines can be converted for use under the brand name of another financial institution.
The deal includes ATMs in Walgreens in nine states in total, including stores in Arizona and the Chicago area.
Chase spokesman Mike Fusco said the bank is logging off of the ATMs because it will save money and because customers use these particular machines less.
“It really came down to simplifying the business,” said Fusco. “Our customers are using those ATMs less frequently given that our ATM presence has expanded significantly over the last 11 years.”
Even with the disconnection, Chase will own and operate more than 16,000 ATMs, Fusco said. That is more than twice as many as in 2005 when the bank turned to drug stores to quickly place cash dispensers.
It also has ATMs at some airports, train stations, and sports arenas.
Fusco said Chase has ATMs within five minutes of the “vast majority” of discontinued machines because of expansions since it made the drug store deals. For example, in 2008, two years after turning to Walgreens for more Florida locations, JPMorgan picked up 260 branches in its financial crisis purchase of Washington Mutual.
Chase ATMs in branches accept deposits while the store machines it is giving up only dispense cash and show account balances.
Cardtronics is talking to other financial institutions about putting their brands on the machines and it expects to announce new arrangements “later this year,” Cardtronics spokesman Nick Pappathopoulos said in an email.
A spokeswoman for Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc, (WBA.O) which owns Walgreens and Duane Reade, had no immediate comment.
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