Edythe Chapman
Acting • Born 1863-10-07 – Died 1948-10-15
Biography
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.
Filmography
113 credits
Take the Heir
Movie • 1930
Lady Tweedham
The Ten Commandments
Movie • 1923
Mrs. Martha McTavish
Bunty Pulls the Strings
Movie • 1921
Eelen Dunlap
Hollywood
Movie • 1923
Edythe Chapman
Borrowed Clothes
Movie • 1918
Mary's Mother
North of the Rio Grande
Movie • 1922
Belle Hannon
Bits of Life
Movie • 1921
A Mormon Maid
Movie • 1917
Nancy Hogue
In the Name of Love
Movie • 1925
Mother Melnotte
Broken Barriers
Movie • 1924
Beulah Reynolds
Huck and Tom
Movie • 1918
Aunt Polly
Alias Ladyfingers
Movie • 1921
Rachel Stetherill
A Tailor-Made Man
Movie • 1922
Mrs. Nathan
The Countess Charming
Movie • 1917
Mrs. Lovering
The Selfish Woman
Movie • 1916
Mrs. Hale
The Evil Eye
Movie • 1917
Alias Mike Moran
Movie • 1919
Ma Young
A Modern Musketeer
Movie • 1917
Mrs. Thacker
The Whispering Chorus
Movie • 1918
John Tremble's mother
Love Hungry
Movie • 1928
Ma Robinson
Manslaughter
Movie • 1922
Adeline Bennett
One Minute to Play
Movie • 1926
Mrs. Wade
The Pretty Sister of Jose
Movie • 1915
The Mother
The Pride of the Force
Movie • 1925
Mother Moore
The Idle Rich
Movie • 1929
Mrs. Alice Thayer
Navy Blues
Movie • 1929
Mrs. Brown
The Boob
Movie • 1926
The Old Lady (uncredited)
Three Faces East
Movie • 1926
Mrs. Bennett
Flame of the Desert
Movie • 1919
Lady Snowden
The Runaway
Movie • 1926
Mrs. Murrell
Unexpected Places
Movie • 1918
Mrs. Penfield
The Spirit of '17
Movie • 1918
Mrs. Glidden
Saturday Night
Movie • 1922
Mrs. Prentiss
Pinto
Movie • 1920
Mrs. Audry
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Movie • 1928
Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)
The Winning Girl
Movie • 1919
Second Mrs. Milligan
Man Trouble
Movie • 1930
Aunt Maggie
Lazybones
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Tuttle
Her Husband’s Trademark
Movie • 1922
Mother Berkeley
Synthetic Sin
Movie • 1929
Mrs. Fairfax
Lightnin'
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Jones
The County Fair
Movie • 1920
Aunt Abigail Prue
Daughters of Pleasure
Movie • 1924
Mrs. Hadley
Beyond the Rocks
Movie • 1922
Lady Bracondale
Chastity
Movie • 1923
Mrs. Harris
Huckleberry Finn
Movie • 1920
Aunt Polly
The Golden Chance
Movie • 1915
Mrs. Hillary
Rose o' Paradise
Movie • 1918
Peg Grandoken
Double Cross Roads
Movie • 1930
Mrs. Carlyle
Twin Beds
Movie • 1929
Ma Dolan
Old Wives for New
Movie • 1918
Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)
One Wild Week
Movie • 1921
Mrs. Dorn
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Movie • 1920
Mrs. Dean
Voices of the City
Movie • 1921
Mrs. Rodman
Havoc
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Chappel
Three Week Ends
Movie • 1928
Ma O'Brien
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
Movie • 1920
Senora Urique
Learning to Love
Movie • 1925
Aunt Penelope
The Little American
Movie • 1917
Mrs. von Austreim
A Little Princess
Movie • 1917
(uncredited)
Naughty But Nice
Movie • 1927
Mrs. Altewood
Say! Young Fellow
Movie • 1918
A Sweet Spinster
Bound in Morocco
Movie • 1918
Ysail's Mother
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
Movie • 1919
Teddy's Mother
Tom Sawyer
Movie • 1917
Aunt Polly
Oliver Twist
Movie • 1916
Mrs. Brownlow
Heart Trouble
Movie • 1928
My American Wife
Movie • 1922
Donna Isabella LaTassa
Richelieu
Movie • 1914
The Queen
Experimental Marriage
Movie • 1919
Mrs. Ercoll
American Beauty
Movie • 1927
Madame O'Riley
Secret Service
Movie • 1919
Mrs. Varney
The Crystal Cup
Movie • 1927
Mrs. Carteret
Up the River
Movie • 1930
Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)
The Only Road
Movie • 1918
Clara Hawkins
The Girl at Home
Movie • 1917
Mary Dexter
Happiness Ahead
Movie • 1928
Mrs. Randall
Everywoman
Movie • 1919
Truth
The Shepherd of the Hills
Movie • 1928
Aunt Mollie
Dangerous Curve Ahead
Movie • 1921
Mrs. Mabee
The Girl I Loved
Movie • 1923
Mother Middleton
The Shadow of the East
Movie • 1924
Aunt Caroline
The Breaking Point
Movie • 1924
Lucy Livingstone
Fires of Faith
Movie • 1919
Mrs. Booth
The Little Yellow House
Movie • 1928
Grandmother Pentland
On the Level
Movie • 1917
Joe Blanchard's Mother
The Crystal Gazer
Movie • 1917
Mrs. Mannering
A School for Husbands
Movie • 1917
Mrs. Manners
Faithful Wives
Movie • 1926
The Mother
The Gypsy Trail
Movie • 1918
Grandma
Peg o' My Heart
Movie • 1919
Sally's Shoulders
Movie • 1928
Emily
Soul Mates
Movie • 1925
Tancred's mother
Just Out of College
Movie • 1920
Mrs. Pickering
The Wise Virgin
Movie • 1924
Mrs. John Farrington
Sandy
Movie • 1918
Mrs. Hollis
Worldly Goods
Movie • 1924
Mrs. Lawson
The Heir to the Hoorah
Movie • 1916
Mrs. Kent
Out of the Storm
Movie • 1920
Lady Bridgeminster
An Innocent Adventuress
Movie • 1919
Aunt Heppy
The Home Town Girl
Movie • 1919
Mrs. Fanshawe
The Ghost House
Movie • 1917
Mrs. Rawson
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Movie • 1918
Older Mrs. Breede
A Wife's Awakening
Movie • 1921
Mrs. Kelcey
Youth to Youth
Movie • 1922
Mrs. Cora Knittson
The Count of Ten
Movie • 1928
Mother McKinney
Divorce
Movie • 1923
Mrs. George Reed
The Sleep Walker
Movie • 1922
Sister Ursula
A Tale of Two Worlds
Movie • 1921
Mrs. Newcombe
The Miracle Makers
Movie • 1923
Mrs. Martha Mansfield
The Plow Girl
Movie • 1916
Lady Brentwood
Anton the Terrible
Movie • 1916
Babushka (Anton's mother)
Faith
Movie • 1919
Martha Owen