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