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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Rochester, New York, USA, 1863-10-07

Died: 1948-10-15

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1914	Richelieu	The Queen	0
2	1915	The Pretty Sister of Jose	The Mother	0
3	1915	The Golden Chance	Mrs. Hillary	65
4	1916	The Selfish Woman	Mrs. Hale	0
5	1916	Oliver Twist	Mrs. Brownlow	0
6	1917	The Evil Eye		0
7	1917	A School for Husbands	Mrs. Manners	0
8	1917	A Mormon Maid	Nancy Hogue	50
9	1917	The Girl at Home	Mary Dexter	0
10	1917	The Little American	Mrs. von Austreim	63
11	1917	The Crystal Gazer	Mrs. Mannering	0
12	1917	On the Level	Joe Blanchard's Mother	0
13	1917	The Countess Charming	Mrs. Lovering	0
14	1917	A Little Princess	(uncredited)	52
15	1917	Tom Sawyer	Aunt Polly	50
16	1917	A Modern Musketeer	Mrs. Thacker	52
17	1918	The Spirit of '17	Mrs. Glidden	0
18	1918	Huck and Tom	Aunt Polly	0
19	1918	The Whispering Chorus	John Tremble's mother	63
20	1918	Rose o' Paradise	Peg Grandoken	0
21	1918	Old Wives for New	Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)	65
22	1918	The Only Road	Clara Hawkins	0
23	1918	Say! Young Fellow	A Sweet Spinster	0
24	1918	Bound in Morocco	Ysail's Mother	0
25	1918	Unexpected Places	Mrs. Penfield	0
26	1918	Borrowed Clothes	Mary's Mother	0
27	1918	The Gypsy Trail	Grandma	0
28	1919	Peg o' My Heart		0
29	1919	The Winning Girl	Second Mrs. Milligan	0
30	1919	Alias Mike Moran	Ma Young	0
31	1919	Experimental Marriage	Mrs. Ercoll	0
32	1919	The Knickerbocker Buckaroo	Teddy's Mother	60
33	1919	Secret Service	Mrs. Varney	0
34	1919	Fires of Faith	Mrs. Booth	0
35	1919	Flame of the Desert	Lady Snowden	0
36	1919	Everywoman	Truth	0
37	1920	Pinto	Mrs. Audry	0
38	1920	The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come	Mrs. Dean	0
39	1920	Huckleberry Finn	Aunt Polly	58
40	1920	A Double-Dyed Deceiver	Senora Urique	0
41	1920	The County Fair	Aunt Abigail Prue	47
42	1921	Bunty Pulls the Strings	Eelen Dunlap	0
43	1921	One Wild Week	Mrs. Dorn	0
44	1921	Bits of Life		0
45	1921	Dangerous Curve Ahead	Mrs. Mabee	0
46	1921	Alias Ladyfingers	Rachel Stetherill	60
47	1921	Voices of the City	Mrs. Rodman	0
48	1922	Saturday Night	Mrs. Prentiss	58
49	1922	Her Husband’s Trademark	Mother Berkeley	0
50	1922	Beyond the Rocks	Lady Bracondale	62
51	1922	North of the Rio Grande	Belle Hannon	0
52	1922	A Tailor-Made Man	Mrs. Nathan	0
53	1922	Manslaughter	Adeline Bennett	54
54	1922	My American Wife	Donna Isabella LaTassa	0
55	1923	The Girl I Loved	Mother Middleton	0
56	1923	Hollywood	Edythe Chapman	70
57	1923	The Ten Commandments	Mrs. Martha McTavish	65
58	1923	Chastity	Mrs. Harris	0
59	1924	The Shadow of the East	Aunt Caroline	0
60	1924	The Breaking Point	Lucy Livingstone	0
61	1924	Daughters of Pleasure	Mrs. Hadley	0
62	1924	Broken Barriers	Beulah Reynolds	10
63	1925	Learning to Love	Aunt Penelope	0
64	1925	In the Name of Love	Mother Melnotte	0
65	1925	Lightnin'	Mrs. Jones	52
66	1925	The Pride of the Force	Mother Moore	0
67	1925	Havoc	Mrs. Chappel	0
68	1925	Lazybones	Mrs. Tuttle	65
69	1926	Three Faces East	Mrs. Bennett	0
70	1926	The Runaway	Mrs. Murrell	0
71	1926	The Boob	The Old Lady (uncredited)	58
72	1926	One Minute to Play	Mrs. Wade	45
73	1926	Faithful Wives	The Mother	0
74	1927	Naughty But Nice	Mrs. Altewood	0
75	1927	American Beauty	Madame O'Riley	10
76	1927	The Crystal Cup	Mrs. Carteret	0
77	1928	The Shepherd of the Hills	Aunt Mollie	0
78	1928	The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg	Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)	73
79	1928	Love Hungry	Ma Robinson	0
80	1928	The Little Yellow House	Grandmother Pentland	0
81	1928	Happiness Ahead	Mrs. Randall	0
82	1928	Heart Trouble		0
83	1928	Three Week Ends	Ma O'Brien	0
84	1929	Synthetic Sin	Mrs. Fairfax	0
85	1929	The Idle Rich	Mrs. Alice Thayer	57
86	1929	Twin Beds	Ma Dolan	0
87	1929	Navy Blues	Mrs. Brown	70
88	1930	Take the Heir	Lady Tweedham	0
89	1930	Double Cross Roads	Mrs. Carlyle	0
90	1930	Man Trouble	Aunt Maggie	50
91	1930	Up the River	Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)	58

Edythe Chapman

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