Edythe Chapman
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Boob (1926)
as The Old Lady (uncredited)
Public Opinion (1916)
as Mrs. Carson Morgan
The Home Town Girl (1919)
as Mrs. Fanshawe
Unexpected Places (1918)
as Mrs. Penfield
The Ten Commandments (1923)
as Mrs. Martha McTavish
His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1918)
as Older Mrs. Breede
Sandy (1918)
as Mrs. Hollis
Deliverance (1919)
as Sarah Fuller
In the Name of Love (1925)
as Mother Melnotte
Divorce (1923)
as Mrs. George Reed
Youth to Youth (1922)
as Mrs. Cora Knittson
Faith (1919)
as Martha Owen
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1928)
as Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)
Huck and Tom (1918)
as Aunt Polly
The Ghost House (1917)
as Mrs. Rawson
Twin Beds (1929)
as Ma Dolan
The Wise Virgin (1924)
as Mrs. John Farrington
Three Week Ends (1928)
as Ma O'Brien
My American Wife (1922)
as Donna Isabella LaTassa
The Count of Ten (1928)
as Mother McKinney
Her Husband’s Trademark (1922)
as Mother Berkeley
The Plow Girl (1916)
as Lady Brentwood
Borrowed Clothes (1918)
as Mary's Mother
Chastity (1923)
as Mrs. Harris
The Idle Rich (1929)
as Mrs. Alice Thayer
Hollywood (1923)
as Edythe Chapman
Out of the Storm (1920)
as Lady Bridgeminster
The Pretty Sister of Jose (1915)
as The Mother
Naughty But Nice (1927)
as Mrs. Altewood
Saturday Night (1922)
as Mrs. Prentiss
North of the Rio Grande (1922)
as Belle Hannon
A Mormon Maid (1917)
as Nancy Hogue
Alias Ladyfingers (1921)
as Rachel Stetherill
A Wife's Awakening (1921)
as Mrs. Kelcey
Bits of Life (1921)
Actor
The Girl at Home (1917)
as Mary Dexter
Just Out of College (1920)
as Mrs. Pickering
Richelieu (1914)
as The Queen
Anton the Terrible (1916)
as Babushka (Anton's mother)
Huckleberry Finn (1920)
as Aunt Polly
Old Wives for New (1918)
as Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)
Lightnin' (1925)
as Mrs. Jones
An Innocent Adventuress (1919)
as Aunt Heppy
Voices of the City (1921)
as Mrs. Rodman
The Heir to the Hoorah (1916)
as Mrs. Kent
The Miracle Makers (1923)
as Mrs. Martha Mansfield
Beyond the Rocks (1922)
as Lady Bracondale
The Sleep Walker (1922)
as Sister Ursula
A Double-Dyed Deceiver (1920)
as Senora Urique
The Golden Chance (1915)
as Mrs. Hillary
You Never Saw Such a Girl (1919)
as Mrs. Burgess
Alias Mike Moran (1919)
as Ma Young
The Girl I Loved (1923)
as Mother Middleton
Daughters of Pleasure (1924)
as Mrs. Hadley
Man Crazy (1927)
as Grandmother Janeway
A Tailor-Made Man (1922)
as Mrs. Nathan
The Shepherd of the Hills (1928)
as Aunt Mollie
One Minute to Play (1926)
as Mrs. Wade
The Selfish Woman (1916)
as Mrs. Hale
Peg o' My Heart (1919)
Actor
Up the River (1930)
as Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)
A School for Husbands (1917)
as Mrs. Manners
Fires of Faith (1919)
as Mrs. Booth
Bunty Pulls the Strings (1921)
as Eelen Dunlap
Oliver Twist (1916)
as Mrs. Brownlow
Pinto (1920)
as Mrs. Audry
The Spirit of '17 (1918)
as Mrs. Glidden
The Shadow of the East (1924)
as Aunt Caroline
A Tale of Two Worlds (1921)
as Mrs. Newcombe
Flame of the Desert (1919)
as Lady Snowden
The Countess Charming (1917)
as Mrs. Lovering
The County Fair (1920)
as Aunt Abigail Prue
Lazybones (1925)
as Mrs. Tuttle
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919)
as Teddy's Mother
The Breaking Point (1924)
as Lucy Livingstone
Experimental Marriage (1919)
as Mrs. Ercoll
The Little Yellow House (1928)
as Grandmother Pentland
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1920)
as Mrs. Dean
Manslaughter (1922)
as Adeline Bennett
On the Level (1917)
as Joe Blanchard's Mother
Sally's Shoulders (1928)
as Emily
A Modern Musketeer (1917)
as Mrs. Thacker
Happiness Ahead (1928)
as Mrs. Randall
The Whispering Chorus (1918)
as John Tremble's mother
The Runaway (1926)
as Mrs. Murrell
American Beauty (1927)
as Madame O'Riley
Havoc (1925)
as Mrs. Chappel
The Little American (1917)
as Mrs. von Austreim
The Evil Eye (1917)
Actor
The Pride of the Force (1925)
as Mother Moore
Secret Service (1919)
as Mrs. Varney
The Crystal Cup (1927)
as Mrs. Carteret
Dangerous Curve Ahead (1921)
as Mrs. Mabee
Three Faces East (1926)
as Mrs. Bennett
Rose o' Paradise (1918)
as Peg Grandoken
Worldly Goods (1924)
as Mrs. Lawson
Man Trouble (1930)
as Aunt Maggie
Tom Sawyer (1917)
as Aunt Polly
Take the Heir (1930)
as Lady Tweedham
One Wild Week (1921)
as Mrs. Dorn
Broken Barriers (1924)
as Beulah Reynolds
A Little Princess (1917)
as (uncredited)
Learning to Love (1925)
as Aunt Penelope
Soul Mates (1925)
as Tancred's mother
Faithful Wives (1926)
as The Mother
The Winning Girl (1919)
as Second Mrs. Milligan
Love Hungry (1928)
as Ma Robinson
The Only Road (1918)
as Clara Hawkins
Double Cross Roads (1930)
as Mrs. Carlyle
Synthetic Sin (1929)
as Mrs. Fairfax
The Crystal Gazer (1917)
as Mrs. Mannering
Say! Young Fellow (1918)
as A Sweet Spinster
Navy Blues (1929)
as Mrs. Brown
Everywoman (1919)
as Truth
The Gypsy Trail (1918)
as Grandma
Heart Trouble (1928)
Actor
Bound in Morocco (1918)
as Ysail's Mother