Edythe Chapman
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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.
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Films (117)
Up the River
1930 · Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)
Man Trouble
1930 · Aunt Maggie
Double Cross Roads
1930 · Mrs. Carlyle
Take the Heir
1930 · Lady Tweedham
Navy Blues
1929 · Mrs. Brown
Twin Beds
1929 · Ma Dolan
The Idle Rich
1929 · Mrs. Alice Thayer
Synthetic Sin
1929 · Mrs. Fairfax
Three Week Ends
1928 · Ma O'Brien
Sally's Shoulders
1928 · Emily
Heart Trouble
1928
Happiness Ahead
1928 · Mrs. Randall
The Little Yellow House
1928 · Grandmother Pentland
Love Hungry
1928 · Ma Robinson
The Count of Ten
1928 · Mother McKinney
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1928 · Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)
The Shepherd of the Hills
1928 · Aunt Mollie
Man Crazy
1927 · Grandmother Janeway
The Crystal Cup
1927 · Mrs. Carteret
American Beauty
1927 · Madame O'Riley
Naughty But Nice
1927 · Mrs. Altewood
Faithful Wives
1926 · The Mother
One Minute to Play
1926 · Mrs. Wade
The Boob
1926 · The Old Lady (uncredited)
The Runaway
1926 · Mrs. Murrell
Three Faces East
1926 · Mrs. Bennett
Lazybones
1925 · Mrs. Tuttle
Havoc
1925 · Mrs. Chappel
The Pride of the Force
1925 · Mother Moore
Lightnin'
1925 · Mrs. Jones
In the Name of Love
1925 · Mother Melnotte
Soul Mates
1925 · Tancred's mother
Learning to Love
1925 · Aunt Penelope
Worldly Goods
1924 · Mrs. Lawson
Broken Barriers
1924 · Beulah Reynolds
The Wise Virgin
1924 · Mrs. John Farrington
Daughters of Pleasure
1924 · Mrs. Hadley
The Breaking Point
1924 · Lucy Livingstone
The Shadow of the East
1924 · Aunt Caroline
Chastity
1923 · Mrs. Harris
The Ten Commandments
1923 · Mrs. Martha McTavish
The Miracle Makers
1923 · Mrs. Martha Mansfield
Hollywood
1923 · Edythe Chapman
Divorce
1923 · Mrs. George Reed
The Girl I Loved
1923 · Mother Middleton
My American Wife
1922 · Donna Isabella LaTassa
Youth to Youth
1922 · Mrs. Cora Knittson
Manslaughter
1922 · Adeline Bennett
A Tailor-Made Man
1922 · Mrs. Nathan
North of the Rio Grande
1922 · Belle Hannon
Beyond the Rocks
1922 · Lady Bracondale
The Sleep Walker
1922 · Sister Ursula
Her Husband’s Trademark
1922 · Mother Berkeley
Saturday Night
1922 · Mrs. Prentiss
Voices of the City
1921 · Mrs. Rodman
Alias Ladyfingers
1921 · Rachel Stetherill
Dangerous Curve Ahead
1921 · Mrs. Mabee
Bits of Life
1921
A Wife's Awakening
1921 · Mrs. Kelcey
One Wild Week
1921 · Mrs. Dorn
A Tale of Two Worlds
1921 · Mrs. Newcombe
Bunty Pulls the Strings
1921 · Eelen Dunlap
Just Out of College
1920 · Mrs. Pickering
The County Fair
1920 · Aunt Abigail Prue
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
1920 · Senora Urique
Out of the Storm
1920 · Lady Bridgeminster
Huckleberry Finn
1920 · Aunt Polly
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
1920 · Mrs. Dean
Pinto
1920 · Mrs. Audry
Everywoman
1919 · Truth
Flame of the Desert
1919 · Lady Snowden
Deliverance
1919 · Sarah Fuller
Fires of Faith
1919 · Mrs. Booth
Secret Service
1919 · Mrs. Varney
An Innocent Adventuress
1919 · Aunt Heppy
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
1919 · Teddy's Mother
The Home Town Girl
1919 · Mrs. Fanshawe
Experimental Marriage
1919 · Mrs. Ercoll
Alias Mike Moran
1919 · Ma Young
The Winning Girl
1919 · Second Mrs. Milligan
You Never Saw Such a Girl
1919 · Mrs. Burgess
Faith
1919 · Martha Owen
Peg o' My Heart
1919
The Gypsy Trail
1918 · Grandma
Borrowed Clothes
1918 · Mary's Mother
Unexpected Places
1918 · Mrs. Penfield
Bound in Morocco
1918 · Ysail's Mother
Sandy
1918 · Mrs. Hollis
Say! Young Fellow
1918 · A Sweet Spinster
The Only Road
1918 · Clara Hawkins
Old Wives for New
1918 · Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)
Rose o' Paradise
1918 · Peg Grandoken
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
1918 · Older Mrs. Breede
The Whispering Chorus
1918 · John Tremble's mother
Huck and Tom
1918 · Aunt Polly
The Spirit of '17
1918 · Mrs. Glidden
A Modern Musketeer
1917 · Mrs. Thacker
Tom Sawyer
1917 · Aunt Polly
A Little Princess
1917 · (uncredited)
The Ghost House
1917 · Mrs. Rawson
The Countess Charming
1917 · Mrs. Lovering
On the Level
1917 · Joe Blanchard's Mother
The Crystal Gazer
1917 · Mrs. Mannering
The Little American
1917 · Mrs. von Austreim
The Girl at Home
1917 · Mary Dexter
A Mormon Maid
1917 · Nancy Hogue
A School for Husbands
1917 · Mrs. Manners
The Evil Eye
1917
Oliver Twist
1916 · Mrs. Brownlow
The Plow Girl
1916 · Lady Brentwood
The Heir to the Hoorah
1916 · Mrs. Kent
Anton the Terrible
1916 · Babushka (Anton's mother)
Public Opinion
1916 · Mrs. Carson Morgan
The Selfish Woman
1916 · Mrs. Hale
The Golden Chance
1915 · Mrs. Hillary
The Pretty Sister of Jose
1915 · The Mother
Richelieu
1914 · The Queen
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