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