Chase was romantically involved with the adult film actor Joe Cade they had a commitment ceremony in 1998, but later separated amicably. Ĭhase would work frequently with directors John Rutherford and Chi Chi Larue at Falcon, and would appear in the Larue-directed music video for " I Am a Pig" by 2wo, a side project of Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford. He frequently performed as a top, though his bottoming debut in 1997's California Kings would win him a GayVN Award and a Gay Erotic Video Award. He would become known for his dominant performances and his exceptionally large endowment, though Chase has described himself as "the Wally Cleaver of porn" in reference to erotica initially not coming naturally to him. Summers' The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television describes as "the new wave of gay porn stars in the new millennium: masculine and muscular, sexually versatile, and confidently gay," and would become the studio's first lifetime exclusive model. Īt Falcon, Chase would become emblematic of what Claude J. He was cast in his first adult film, 1996's Backwoods, a week after being interviewed by Falcon, and relocated from Boston to San Francisco.
At the age of 30, he was inspired by the 1993 pornographic film On the Mark to enter the adult film industry, and submitted photographs of himself to the film's producers at Falcon Studios. Chase was raised in Highland Park, Texas.