Edythe Chapman
Born
October 7, 1863
Died
October 15, 1948 (85 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
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 (uncredited)
1930
Man Trouble
Aunt Maggie
1930
Double Cross Roads
Mrs. Carlyle
1930
Take the Heir
Lady Tweedham
1930
Navy Blues
Mrs. Brown
1929
Twin Beds
Ma Dolan
1929
The Idle Rich
Mrs. Alice Thayer
1929
Synthetic Sin
Mrs. Fairfax
1929
Three Week Ends
Ma O'Brien
1928
Heart Trouble
1928
Happiness Ahead
Mrs. Randall
1928
The Little Yellow House
Grandmother Pentland
1928
Love Hungry
Ma Robinson
1928
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)
1928
The Shepherd of the Hills
Aunt Mollie
1928
The Crystal Cup
Mrs. Carteret
1927
American Beauty
Madame O'Riley
1927
Naughty But Nice
Mrs. Altewood
1927
Faithful Wives
The Mother
1926
One Minute to Play
Mrs. Wade
1926
The Boob
The Old Lady (uncredited)
1926
The Runaway
Mrs. Murrell
1926
Three Faces East
Mrs. Bennett
1926
Lazybones
Mrs. Tuttle
1925
Havoc
Mrs. Chappel
1925
The Pride of the Force
Mother Moore
1925
Lightnin'
Mrs. Jones
1925
In the Name of Love
Mother Melnotte
1925
Learning to Love
Aunt Penelope
1925
Broken Barriers
Beulah Reynolds
1924
Daughters of Pleasure
Mrs. Hadley
1924
The Breaking Point
Lucy Livingstone
1924
The Shadow of the East
Aunt Caroline
1924
Chastity
Mrs. Harris
1923
The Ten Commandments
Mrs. Martha McTavish
1923
Hollywood
Edythe Chapman
1923
The Girl I Loved
Mother Middleton
1923
My American Wife
Donna Isabella LaTassa
1922
Manslaughter
Adeline Bennett
1922
A Tailor-Made Man
Mrs. Nathan
1922
North of the Rio Grande
Belle Hannon
1922
Beyond the Rocks
Lady Bracondale
1922
Her Husband’s Trademark
Mother Berkeley
1922
Saturday Night
Mrs. Prentiss
1922
Voices of the City
Mrs. Rodman
1921
Alias Ladyfingers
Rachel Stetherill
1921
Dangerous Curve Ahead
Mrs. Mabee
1921
Bits of Life
1921
One Wild Week
Mrs. Dorn
1921
Bunty Pulls the Strings
Eelen Dunlap
1921
The County Fair
Aunt Abigail Prue
1920
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
Senora Urique
1920
Huckleberry Finn
Aunt Polly
1920
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Mrs. Dean
1920
Pinto
Mrs. Audry
1920
Everywoman
Truth
1919
Flame of the Desert
Lady Snowden
1919
Fires of Faith
Mrs. Booth
1919
Secret Service
Mrs. Varney
1919
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
Teddy's Mother
1919
Experimental Marriage
Mrs. Ercoll
1919
Alias Mike Moran
Ma Young
1919
The Winning Girl
Second Mrs. Milligan
1919
Peg o' My Heart
1919
The Gypsy Trail
Grandma
1918
Borrowed Clothes
Mary's Mother
1918
Unexpected Places
Mrs. Penfield
1918
Bound in Morocco
Ysail's Mother
1918
Say! Young Fellow
A Sweet Spinster
1918
The Only Road
Clara Hawkins
1918
Old Wives for New
Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)
1918
Rose o' Paradise
Peg Grandoken
1918
The Whispering Chorus
John Tremble's mother
1918
Huck and Tom
Aunt Polly
1918
The Spirit of '17
Mrs. Glidden
1918
A Modern Musketeer
Mrs. Thacker
1917
Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly
1917
A Little Princess
(uncredited)
1917
The Countess Charming
Mrs. Lovering
1917
On the Level
Joe Blanchard's Mother
1917
The Crystal Gazer
Mrs. Mannering
1917
The Little American
Mrs. von Austreim
1917
The Girl at Home
Mary Dexter
1917
A Mormon Maid
Nancy Hogue
1917
A School for Husbands
Mrs. Manners
1917
The Evil Eye
1917
Oliver Twist
Mrs. Brownlow
1916
The Selfish Woman
Mrs. Hale
1916
The Golden Chance
Mrs. Hillary
1915
The Pretty Sister of Jose
The Mother
1915
Richelieu
The Queen
1914