Saturday, February 15, 2025

Little Known Western Actors ~ Jeff Chaette

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Jeffrey C. Chayette was born on March 15, 1953, in Michigan. He’s a multi-award-winning artist, designer and animator. He won an Emmy for his work on CBS, Time ‘100 People of the Century’, rendering several portraits that were used for giant magazine covers on the award-winning set design. He has also won Promax / BDA awards for his design and animation work on promos for CBS2 and KCAL, as well as two CBS Eye on Excellence awards and two LA Regional Emmy awards.

Showing talent for art in his youth, Jeff was seduced by the theater and spent his twenties pursuing a career as an actor musician. In his next decade he went back to art classes, while working at a commercial production company, and started doing shooting boards for the company’s directors. He has had paintings exhibited in a National juried show at the Brand Library Glendale and a solo exhibition of monotypes at a downtown gallery. He has designed movie posters for top design firms, designed, animated and produced television graphics for cable networks, Hallmark and FX as well as CBS. In addition, Jeff has designed websites and created movies open for independent films and documentaries.

He is married to illustrator, graphic designer Miho Harada and have two children.

Jeff appeared in one Euro-westerns a hotel clerk in 1977’s “Un autre homme, une autre chance” (Another Man, Another Chance).

CHAETTE, Jeff (Jeffrey C. Chayette) [3/15/1953, Michigan, U.S.A. -      ] – producer, film actor, artist, married to illustrator Miho Harada Smith [1967-    ], father of two children..

Another Man, Another Chance – 1977 (hotel clerk)



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