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.
Acted in 108
1930s
- 1930
Man Trouble
Aunt Maggie
Double Cross Roads
Mrs. Carlyle
1920s
- 1929
Navy Blues
Mrs. Brown
Twin Beds
Ma Dolan
Synthetic Sin
Mrs. Fairfax
- 1928
Three Week Ends
Ma O'Brien
Sally's Shoulders
Emily
Heart Trouble
Movie
Happiness Ahead
Mrs. Randall
The Little Yellow House
Grandmother Pentland
Love Hungry
Ma Robinson
The Count of Ten
Mother McKinney
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)
The Shepherd of the Hills
Aunt Mollie
- 1927
The Crystal Cup
Mrs. Carteret
American Beauty
Madame O'Riley
Naughty But Nice
Mrs. Altewood
- 1926
One Minute to Play
Mrs. Wade
The Runaway
Mrs. Murrell
Three Faces East
Mrs. Bennett
- 1925
Lazybones
Mrs. Tuttle
Havoc
Mrs. Chappel
Lightnin'
Mrs. Jones
In the Name of Love
Mother Melnotte
Soul Mates
Tancred's mother
Learning to Love
Aunt Penelope
- 1924
Worldly Goods
Mrs. Lawson
Broken Barriers
Beulah Reynolds
The Wise Virgin
Mrs. John Farrington
Daughters of Pleasure
Mrs. Hadley
The Breaking Point
Lucy Livingstone
The Shadow of the East
Aunt Caroline
- 1923
Chastity
Mrs. Harris
The Miracle Makers
Mrs. Martha Mansfield
Hollywood
Edythe Chapman
Divorce
Mrs. George Reed
The Girl I Loved
Mother Middleton
- 1922
My American Wife
Donna Isabella LaTassa
Youth to Youth
Mrs. Cora Knittson
Manslaughter
Adeline Bennett
A Tailor-Made Man
Mrs. Nathan
North of the Rio Grande
Belle Hannon
Beyond the Rocks
Lady Bracondale
The Sleep Walker
Sister Ursula
Her Husband’s Trademark
Mother Berkeley
Saturday Night
Mrs. Prentiss
- 1921
Voices of the City
Mrs. Rodman
Alias Ladyfingers
Rachel Stetherill
Dangerous Curve Ahead
Mrs. Mabee
Bits of Life
Movie
A Wife's Awakening
Mrs. Kelcey
A Tale of Two Worlds
Mrs. Newcombe
Bunty Pulls the Strings
Eelen Dunlap
- 1920
Just Out of College
Mrs. Pickering
The County Fair
Aunt Abigail Prue
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
Senora Urique
Out of the Storm
Lady Bridgeminster
Huckleberry Finn
Aunt Polly
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Mrs. Dean
Pinto
Mrs. Audry
1910s
- 1919
Everywoman
Truth
Flame of the Desert
Lady Snowden
Deliverance
Sarah Fuller
Fires of Faith
Mrs. Booth
Secret Service
Mrs. Varney
An Innocent Adventuress
Aunt Heppy
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
Teddy's Mother
The Home Town Girl
Mrs. Fanshawe
Experimental Marriage
Mrs. Ercoll
Alias Mike Moran
Ma Young
The Winning Girl
Second Mrs. Milligan
Faith
Martha Owen
- 1918
The Gypsy Trail
Grandma
Borrowed Clothes
Mary's Mother
Unexpected Places
Mrs. Penfield
Bound in Morocco
Ysail's Mother
Say! Young Fellow
A Sweet Spinster
The Only Road
Clara Hawkins
Old Wives for New
Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)
Rose o' Paradise
Peg Grandoken
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Older Mrs. Breede
The Whispering Chorus
John Tremble's mother
Huck and Tom
Aunt Polly
The Spirit of '17
Mrs. Glidden
- 1917
A Modern Musketeer
Mrs. Thacker
Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly
The Ghost House
Mrs. Rawson
The Countess Charming
Mrs. Lovering
On the Level
Joe Blanchard's Mother
The Crystal Gazer
Mrs. Mannering
The Little American
Mrs. von Austreim
The Girl at Home
Mary Dexter
A Mormon Maid
Nancy Hogue
A School for Husbands
Mrs. Manners
- 1916
Oliver Twist
Mrs. Brownlow
The Plow Girl
Lady Brentwood
The Heir to the Hoorah
Mrs. Kent
Anton the Terrible
Babushka (Anton's mother)
The Selfish Woman
Mrs. Hale
- 1915
The Golden Chance
Mrs. Hillary
The Pretty Sister of Jose
The Mother
- 1914
Richelieu
The Queen
