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.
Acted in
Up the River
1930
as Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)
Man Trouble
1930
as Aunt Maggie
Double Cross Roads
1930
as Mrs. Carlyle
Take the Heir
1930
as Lady Tweedham
Navy Blues
1929
as Mrs. Brown
Twin Beds
1929
as Ma Dolan
The Idle Rich
1929
as Mrs. Alice Thayer
Synthetic Sin
1929
as Mrs. Fairfax
Three Week Ends
1928
as Ma O'Brien
Heart Trouble
1928
Happiness Ahead
1928
as Mrs. Randall
The Little Yellow House
1928
as Grandmother Pentland
Love Hungry
1928
as Ma Robinson
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1928
as Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)
The Shepherd of the Hills
1928
as Aunt Mollie
The Crystal Cup
1927
as Mrs. Carteret
American Beauty
1927
as Madame O'Riley
Naughty But Nice
1927
as Mrs. Altewood
One Minute to Play
1926
as Mrs. Wade
The Boob
1926
as The Old Lady (uncredited)
The Runaway
1926
as Mrs. Murrell
Three Faces East
1926
as Mrs. Bennett
Lazybones
1925
as Mrs. Tuttle
Havoc
1925
as Mrs. Chappel
The Pride of the Force
1925
as Mother Moore
Lightnin'
1925
as Mrs. Jones
In the Name of Love
1925
as Mother Melnotte
Learning to Love
1925
as Aunt Penelope
Broken Barriers
1924
as Beulah Reynolds
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
as Mrs. Hadley
The Breaking Point
1924
as Lucy Livingstone
The Shadow of the East
1924
as Aunt Caroline
Chastity
1923
as Mrs. Harris
The Ten Commandments
1923
as Mrs. Martha McTavish
Hollywood
1923
as Edythe Chapman
The Girl I Loved
1923
as Mother Middleton
My American Wife
1922
as Donna Isabella LaTassa
Manslaughter
1922
as Adeline Bennett
A Tailor-Made Man
1922
as Mrs. Nathan
North of the Rio Grande
1922
as Belle Hannon
Beyond the Rocks
1922
as Lady Bracondale
Her Husband’s Trademark
1922
as Mother Berkeley
Saturday Night
1922
as Mrs. Prentiss
Voices of the City
1921
as Mrs. Rodman
Alias Ladyfingers
1921
as Rachel Stetherill
Dangerous Curve Ahead
1921
as Mrs. Mabee
Bits of Life
1921
One Wild Week
1921
as Mrs. Dorn
Bunty Pulls the Strings
1921
as Eelen Dunlap
The County Fair
1920
as Aunt Abigail Prue
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
1920
as Senora Urique
Huckleberry Finn
1920
as Aunt Polly
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
1920
as Mrs. Dean
Pinto
1920
as Mrs. Audry
Everywoman
1919
as Truth
Flame of the Desert
1919
as Lady Snowden
Fires of Faith
1919
as Mrs. Booth
Secret Service
1919
as Mrs. Varney
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
1919
as Teddy's Mother
Experimental Marriage
1919
as Mrs. Ercoll
Alias Mike Moran
1919
as Ma Young
The Winning Girl
1919
as Second Mrs. Milligan
Borrowed Clothes
1918
as Mary's Mother
Unexpected Places
1918
as Mrs. Penfield
Bound in Morocco
1918
as Ysail's Mother
Say! Young Fellow
1918
as A Sweet Spinster
The Only Road
1918
as Clara Hawkins
Old Wives for New
1918
as Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)
Rose o' Paradise
1918
as Peg Grandoken
The Whispering Chorus
1918
as John Tremble's mother
Huck and Tom
1918
as Aunt Polly
The Spirit of '17
1918
as Mrs. Glidden
A Modern Musketeer
1917
as Mrs. Thacker
Tom Sawyer
1917
as Aunt Polly
A Little Princess
1917
as (uncredited)
The Countess Charming
1917
as Mrs. Lovering
The Little American
1917
as Mrs. von Austreim
The Girl at Home
1917
as Mary Dexter
A Mormon Maid
1917
as Nancy Hogue
The Evil Eye
1917
Oliver Twist
1916
as Mrs. Brownlow
The Selfish Woman
1916
as Mrs. Hale
The Golden Chance
1915
as Mrs. Hillary
The Pretty Sister of Jose
1915
as The Mother
Richelieu
1914
as The Queen