Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
October 7, 1863
Place of Birth:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Edythe Chapman
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Take the Heir | Lady Tweedham |
| 1930 | Man Trouble | Aunt Maggie |
| 1930 | Double Cross Roads | Mrs. Carlyle |
| 1930 | Up the River | Mrs. Jordan (uncredited) |
| 1929 | The Idle Rich | Mrs. Alice Thayer |
| 1929 | Navy Blues | Mrs. Brown |
| 1929 | Synthetic Sin | Mrs. Fairfax |
| 1929 | Twin Beds | Ma Dolan |
| 1928 | Love Hungry | Ma Robinson |
| 1928 | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited) |
| 1928 | Three Week Ends | Ma O'Brien |
| 1928 | Heart Trouble | |
| 1928 | Happiness Ahead | Mrs. Randall |
| 1928 | The Shepherd of the Hills | Aunt Mollie |
| 1928 | The Little Yellow House | Grandmother Pentland |
| 1927 | Naughty But Nice | Mrs. Altewood |
| 1927 | American Beauty | Madame O'Riley |
| 1927 | The Crystal Cup | Mrs. Carteret |
| 1926 | One Minute to Play | Mrs. Wade |
| 1926 | The Boob | The Old Lady (uncredited) |
| 1926 | Three Faces East | Mrs. Bennett |
| 1926 | The Runaway | Mrs. Murrell |
| 1926 | Faithful Wives | The Mother |
| 1925 | In the Name of Love | Mother Melnotte |
| 1925 | The Pride of the Force | Mother Moore |
| 1925 | Lazybones | Mrs. Tuttle |
| 1925 | Lightnin' | Mrs. Jones |
| 1925 | Havoc | Mrs. Chappel |
| 1925 | Learning to Love | Aunt Penelope |
| 1924 | Broken Barriers | Beulah Reynolds |
| 1924 | Daughters of Pleasure | Mrs. Hadley |
| 1924 | The Shadow of the East | Aunt Caroline |
| 1924 | The Breaking Point | Lucy Livingstone |
| 1923 | The Ten Commandments | Mrs. Martha McTavish |
| 1923 | Hollywood | Edythe Chapman |
| 1923 | Chastity | Mrs. Harris |
| 1923 | The Girl I Loved | Mother Middleton |
| 1922 | North of the Rio Grande | Belle Hannon |
| 1922 | A Tailor-Made Man | Mrs. Nathan |
| 1922 | Manslaughter | Adeline Bennett |
| 1922 | Saturday Night | Mrs. Prentiss |
| 1922 | Her Husband’s Trademark | Mother Berkeley |
| 1922 | Beyond the Rocks | Lady Bracondale |
| 1922 | My American Wife | Donna Isabella LaTassa |
| 1921 | Bunty Pulls the Strings | Eelen Dunlap |
| 1921 | Bits of Life | |
| 1921 | Alias Ladyfingers | Rachel Stetherill |
| 1921 | One Wild Week | Mrs. Dorn |
| 1921 | Voices of the City | Mrs. Rodman |
| 1921 | Dangerous Curve Ahead | Mrs. Mabee |
| 1920 | Pinto | Mrs. Audry |
| 1920 | The County Fair | Aunt Abigail Prue |
| 1920 | Huckleberry Finn | Aunt Polly |
| 1920 | The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come | Mrs. Dean |
| 1920 | A Double-Dyed Deceiver | Senora Urique |
| 1919 | Alias Mike Moran | Ma Young |
| 1919 | Flame of the Desert | Lady Snowden |
| 1919 | The Winning Girl | Second Mrs. Milligan |
| 1919 | The Knickerbocker Buckaroo | Teddy's Mother |
| 1919 | Experimental Marriage | Mrs. Ercoll |
| 1919 | Secret Service | Mrs. Varney |
| 1919 | Everywoman | Truth |
| 1919 | Fires of Faith | Mrs. Booth |
| 1919 | Peg o' My Heart | |
| 1918 | Borrowed Clothes | Mary's Mother |
| 1918 | Huck and Tom | Aunt Polly |
| 1918 | The Whispering Chorus | John Tremble's mother |
| 1918 | Unexpected Places | Mrs. Penfield |
| 1918 | The Spirit of '17 | Mrs. Glidden |
| 1918 | Rose o' Paradise | Peg Grandoken |
| 1918 | Old Wives for New | Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited) |
| 1918 | Say! Young Fellow | A Sweet Spinster |
| 1918 | Bound in Morocco | Ysail's Mother |
| 1918 | The Only Road | Clara Hawkins |
| 1918 | The Gypsy Trail | Grandma |
| 1917 | A Mormon Maid | Nancy Hogue |
| 1917 | The Countess Charming | Mrs. Lovering |
| 1917 | The Evil Eye | |
| 1917 | A Modern Musketeer | Mrs. Thacker |
| 1917 | The Little American | Mrs. von Austreim |
| 1917 | A Little Princess | (uncredited) |
| 1917 | Tom Sawyer | Aunt Polly |
| 1917 | The Girl at Home | Mary Dexter |
| 1917 | On the Level | Joe Blanchard's Mother |
| 1917 | The Crystal Gazer | Mrs. Mannering |
| 1917 | A School for Husbands | Mrs. Manners |
| 1916 | The Selfish Woman | Mrs. Hale |
| 1916 | Oliver Twist | Mrs. Brownlow |
| 1915 | The Pretty Sister of Jose | The Mother |
| 1915 | The Golden Chance | Mrs. Hillary |
| 1914 | Richelieu | The Queen |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
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