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Edythe Chapman
Born · October 7, 1863
Died · October 15, 1948 (85 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA
Bio
From Wikipedia Edythe Chapman (October 8, 1863 - October 15, 1948), was an American stage and silent film actress from Rochester, New York. As early as 1898 she appeared in New York, New York in the Charity Ball. Edythe performed at the Shubert Theater in Brooklyn, New York in a production of The Light Eternal in 1907. Mrs. Chapman played maternal roles in numerous silent motion pictures and became known in the 1920s as Hollywood's Mother. She played Ma Jones in the film version of Lightnin' (1925), a screen production which featured Will Rogers. Edythe was Grandmother Janeway in Man Crazy (1927). Miss Chapman came to Hollywood around 1909 with her husband, screen and stage actor, James Neill. The couple met in Cincinnati, Ohio when Miss Chapman was working in Mr. Neill's stock company. They were married in 1897. The two began making movies with Cecil B. Demille and other noteworthy directors and producers. They had leading roles in The Ten Commandments (1923), Manslaughter (1922), The Little American (1917), and other silent motion pictures. Mr. Neill died in 1931. The final movie in which Edythe appeared was Double Crossroads in 1930. Prior to this, she had a large role in Navy Blues (1929). Edythe Chapman Neill died in Glendale, California in 1948 after a brief illness.
Up the River
Mrs. Jordan
5.7
1930
Man Trouble
Aunt Maggie
5.0
1930
Double Cross Roads
Mrs. Carlyle
0.0
1930
Take the Heir
Lady Tweedham
0.0
1930
Navy Blues
Mrs. Brown
7.0
1929
Twin Beds
Ma Dolan
0.0
1929
The Idle Rich
Mrs. Alice Thayer
5.7
1929
Synthetic Sin
Mrs. Fairfax
0.0
1929
Three Week Ends
Ma O'Brien
0.0
1928
Heart Trouble
0.0
1928
Happiness Ahead
Mrs. Randall
0.0
1928
The Little Yellow House
Grandmother Pentland
0.0
1928
Love Hungry
Ma Robinson
0.0
1928
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)
7.3
1928
The Shepherd of the Hills
Aunt Mollie
0.0
1928
The Crystal Cup
Mrs. Carteret
0.0
1927
American Beauty
Madame O'Riley
1.0
1927
Naughty But Nice
Mrs. Altewood
0.0
1927
Faithful Wives
The Mother
0.0
1926
One Minute to Play
Mrs. Wade
4.5
1926
The Boob
The Old Lady (uncredited)
5.8
1926
The Runaway
Mrs. Murrell
0.0
1926
Three Faces East
Mrs. Bennett
0.0
1926
Lazybones
Mrs. Tuttle
6.5
1925
Havoc
Mrs. Chappel
0.0
1925
The Pride of the Force
Mother Moore
0.0
1925
Lightnin'
Mrs. Jones
5.2
1925
In the Name of Love
Mother Melnotte
0.0
1925
Learning to Love
Aunt Penelope
0.0
1925
Broken Barriers
Beulah Reynolds
1.0
1924
Daughters of Pleasure
Mrs. Hadley
0.0
1924
The Breaking Point
Lucy Livingstone
0.0
1924
The Shadow of the East
Aunt Caroline
0.0
1924
Chastity
Mrs. Harris
0.0
1923
The Ten Commandments
Mrs. Martha McTavish
6.6
1923
Hollywood
Edythe Chapman
7.0
1923
The Girl I Loved
Mother Middleton
0.0
1923
My American Wife
Donna Isabella LaTassa
0.0
1922
Manslaughter
Adeline Bennett
5.4
1922
A Tailor-Made Man
Mrs. Nathan
0.0
1922
North of the Rio Grande
Belle Hannon
0.0
1922
Beyond the Rocks
Lady Bracondale
6.2
1922
Her Husband’s Trademark
Mother Berkeley
0.0
1922
Saturday Night
Mrs. Prentiss
5.8
1922
Voices of the City
Mrs. Rodman
0.0
1921
Alias Ladyfingers
Rachel Stetherill
6.0
1921
Dangerous Curve Ahead
Mrs. Mabee
0.0
1921
Bits of Life
0.0
1921
One Wild Week
Mrs. Dorn
0.0
1921
Bunty Pulls the Strings
Eelen Dunlap
0.0
1921
The County Fair
Aunt Abigail Prue
4.7
1920
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
Senora Urique
0.0
1920
Huckleberry Finn
Aunt Polly
5.8
1920
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Mrs. Dean
0.0
1920
Pinto
Mrs. Audry
0.0
1920
Everywoman
Truth
0.0
1919
Flame of the Desert
Lady Snowden
0.0
1919
Fires of Faith
Mrs. Booth
0.0
1919
Secret Service
Mrs. Varney
0.0
1919
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
Teddy's Mother
6.0
1919
Experimental Marriage
Mrs. Ercoll
0.0
1919
Alias Mike Moran
Ma Young
0.0
1919
The Winning Girl
Second Mrs. Milligan
0.0
1919
Borrowed Clothes
Mary's Mother
0.0
1918
Unexpected Places
Mrs. Penfield
0.0
1918
Bound in Morocco
Ysail's Mother
0.0
1918
Say! Young Fellow
A Sweet Spinster
0.0
1918
The Only Road
Clara Hawkins
0.0
1918
Old Wives for New
Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)
6.6
1918
Rose o' Paradise
Peg Grandoken
0.0
1918
The Whispering Chorus
John Tremble's mother
6.3
1918
Huck and Tom
Aunt Polly
0.0
1918
The Spirit of '17
Mrs. Glidden
0.0
1918
A Modern Musketeer
Mrs. Thacker
5.2
1917
Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly
5.0
1917
A Little Princess
(uncredited)
5.1
1917
The Countess Charming
Mrs. Lovering
0.0
1917
On the Level
Joe Blanchard's Mother
0.0
1917
The Crystal Gazer
Mrs. Mannering
0.0
1917
The Little American
Mrs. von Austreim
6.3
1917
The Girl at Home
Mary Dexter
0.0
1917
A Mormon Maid
Nancy Hogue
5.0
1917
A School for Husbands
Mrs. Manners
0.0
1917
The Evil Eye
0.0
1917
Oliver Twist
Mrs. Brownlow
0.0
1916
The Selfish Woman
Mrs. Hale
0.0
1916
The Golden Chance
Mrs. Hillary
6.5
1915
The Pretty Sister of Jose
The Mother
0.0
1915
Richelieu
The Queen
0.0
1914