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