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