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