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