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