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