Portrait of Edythe Chapman

Edythe Chapman

Acting

Biography

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.

Born: October 7, 1863

Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA

Filmography

1930
Up the River

as Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)

1930
Man Trouble

as Aunt Maggie

1930
Double Cross Roads

as Mrs. Carlyle

1929
Navy Blues

as Mrs. Brown

1929
Twin Beds

as Ma Dolan

1929
The Idle Rich

as Mrs. Alice Thayer

1929
Synthetic Sin

as Mrs. Fairfax

1928
Three Week Ends

as Ma O'Brien

1928
1928
Happiness Ahead

as Mrs. Randall

1928
The Little Yellow House

as Grandmother Pentland

1928
Love Hungry

as Ma Robinson

1928
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

as Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)

1928
1927
The Crystal Cup

as Mrs. Carteret

1927
American Beauty

as Madame O'Riley

1927
Naughty But Nice

as Mrs. Altewood

1926
One Minute to Play

as Mrs. Wade

1926
The Boob

as The Old Lady (uncredited)

1926
The Runaway

as Mrs. Murrell

1926
Three Faces East

as Mrs. Bennett

1925
Lazybones

as Mrs. Tuttle

1925
Havoc

as Mrs. Chappel

1925
Lightnin'

as Mrs. Jones

1925
In the Name of Love

as Mother Melnotte

1925
Soul Mates

as Tancred's mother

1925
Learning to Love

as Aunt Penelope

1924
Worldly Goods

as Mrs. Lawson

1924
Broken Barriers

as Beulah Reynolds

1924
The Wise Virgin

as Mrs. John Farrington

1924
Daughters of Pleasure

as Mrs. Hadley

1924
The Breaking Point

as Lucy Livingstone

1924
The Shadow of the East

as Aunt Caroline

1923
Chastity

as Mrs. Harris

1923
The Ten Commandments

as Mrs. Martha McTavish

1923
Hollywood

as Edythe Chapman

1923
The Girl I Loved

as Mother Middleton

1922
My American Wife

as Donna Isabella LaTassa

1922
Manslaughter

as Adeline Bennett

1922
A Tailor-Made Man

as Mrs. Nathan

1922
1922
Beyond the Rocks

as Lady Bracondale

1922
Her Husband’s Trademark

as Mother Berkeley

1922
Saturday Night

as Mrs. Prentiss

1921
Voices of the City

as Mrs. Rodman

1921
Alias Ladyfingers

as Rachel Stetherill

1921
1921
1920
Just Out of College

as Mrs. Pickering

1920
The County Fair

as Aunt Abigail Prue

1920
A Double-Dyed Deceiver

as Senora Urique

1920
Huckleberry Finn

as Aunt Polly

1920
Pinto

as Mrs. Audry

1919
Everywoman

as Truth

1919
Flame of the Desert

as Lady Snowden

1919
Fires of Faith

as Mrs. Booth

1919
Secret Service

as Mrs. Varney

1919
1919
Experimental Marriage

as Mrs. Ercoll

1919
Alias Mike Moran

as Ma Young

1918
The Gypsy Trail

as Grandma

1918
Borrowed Clothes

as Mary's Mother

1918
Unexpected Places

as Mrs. Penfield

1918
Bound in Morocco

as Ysail's Mother

1918
Sandy

as Mrs. Hollis

1918
Say! Young Fellow

as A Sweet Spinster

1918
The Only Road

as Clara Hawkins

1918
Old Wives for New

as Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)

1918
Rose o' Paradise

as Peg Grandoken

1918
The Whispering Chorus

as John Tremble's mother

1918
Huck and Tom

as Aunt Polly

1918
The Spirit of '17

as Mrs. Glidden

1917
A Modern Musketeer

as Mrs. Thacker

1917
Tom Sawyer

as Aunt Polly

1917
A Little Princess

as (uncredited)

1917
The Countess Charming

as Mrs. Lovering

1917
On the Level

as Joe Blanchard's Mother

1917
The Crystal Gazer

as Mrs. Mannering

1917
The Little American

as Mrs. von Austreim

1917
The Girl at Home

as Mary Dexter

1917
A Mormon Maid

as Nancy Hogue

1917
A School for Husbands

as Mrs. Manners

1916
Oliver Twist

as Mrs. Brownlow

1916
1916
The Selfish Woman

as Mrs. Hale

1915
The Golden Chance

as Mrs. Hillary

1915
1914
Richelieu

as The Queen