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