Edythe Chapman
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1863-10-07
Day of Death
1948-10-15 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
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
Acting
(1930)
Man Trouble
as Aunt Maggie
(1930)
Take the Heir
as Lady Tweedham
(1930)
Up the River
as Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)
(1930)
Double Cross Roads
as Mrs. Carlyle
(1929)
Navy Blues
as Mrs. Brown
(1929)
Synthetic Sin
as Mrs. Fairfax
(1929)
The Idle Rich
as Mrs. Alice Thayer
(1929)
Twin Beds
as Ma Dolan
(1928)
Happiness Ahead
as Mrs. Randall
(1928)
Three Week Ends
as Ma O'Brien
(1928)
Love Hungry
as Ma Robinson
(1928)
The Shepherd of the Hills
as Aunt Mollie
(1928)
The Little Yellow House
as Grandmother Pentland
(1928)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
as Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)
(1928)
(1928)
Sally's Shoulders
as Emily
(1927)
American Beauty
as Madame O'Riley
(1927)
The Crystal Cup
as Mrs. Carteret
(1927)
Naughty But Nice
as Mrs. Altewood
(1926)
Three Faces East
as Mrs. Bennett
(1926)
The Runaway
as Mrs. Murrell
(1926)
One Minute to Play
as Mrs. Wade
(1926)
Faithful Wives
as The Mother
(1926)
The Boob
as The Old Lady (uncredited)
(1925)
Soul Mates
as Tancred's mother
(1925)
The Pride of the Force
as Mother Moore
(1925)
Lightnin'
as Mrs. Jones
(1925)
Havoc
as Mrs. Chappel
(1925)
Learning to Love
as Aunt Penelope
(1925)
Lazybones
as Mrs. Tuttle
(1925)
In the Name of Love
as Mother Melnotte
(1924)
The Breaking Point
as Lucy Livingstone
(1924)
Daughters of Pleasure
as Mrs. Hadley
(1924)
Broken Barriers
as Beulah Reynolds
(1924)
The Shadow of the East
as Aunt Caroline
(1923)
Hollywood
as Edythe Chapman
(1923)
The Ten Commandments
as Mrs. Martha McTavish
(1923)
The Girl I Loved
as Mother Middleton
(1923)
Chastity
as Mrs. Harris
(1922)
Manslaughter
as Adeline Bennett
(1922)
Beyond the Rocks
as Lady Bracondale
(1922)
North of the Rio Grande
as Belle Hannon
(1922)
Saturday Night
as Mrs. Prentiss
(1922)
A Tailor-Made Man
as Mrs. Nathan
(1922)
Her Husband’s Trademark
as Mother Berkeley
(1922)
My American Wife
as Donna Isabella LaTassa
(1921)
Dangerous Curve Ahead
as Mrs. Mabee
(1921)
Voices of the City
as Mrs. Rodman
(1921)
Bunty Pulls the Strings
as Eelen Dunlap
(1921)
One Wild Week
as Mrs. Dorn
(1921)
(1921)
Alias Ladyfingers
as Rachel Stetherill
(1920)
Huckleberry Finn
as Aunt Polly
(1920)
Pinto
as Mrs. Audry
(1920)
The County Fair
as Aunt Abigail Prue
(1920)
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
as Senora Urique
(1920)
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
as Mrs. Dean
(1919)
The Winning Girl
as Second Mrs. Milligan
(1919)
Secret Service
as Mrs. Varney
(1919)
Flame of the Desert
as Lady Snowden
(1919)
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
as Teddy's Mother
(1919)
Alias Mike Moran
as Ma Young
(1919)
Everywoman
as Truth
(1919)
Experimental Marriage
as Mrs. Ercoll
(1919)
Fires of Faith
as Mrs. Booth
(1919)
(1918)
The Whispering Chorus
as John Tremble's mother
(1918)
The Gypsy Trail
as Grandma
(1918)
The Spirit of '17
as Mrs. Glidden
(1918)
Say! Young Fellow
as A Sweet Spinster
(1918)
Rose o' Paradise
as Peg Grandoken
(1918)
The Only Road
as Clara Hawkins
(1918)
Bound in Morocco
as Ysail's Mother
(1918)
Old Wives for New
as Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)
(1918)
Unexpected Places
as Mrs. Penfield
(1918)
Huck and Tom
as Aunt Polly
(1918)
Borrowed Clothes
as Mary's Mother
(1917)
Tom Sawyer
as Aunt Polly
(1917)
(1917)
The Little American
as Mrs. von Austreim
(1917)
A Modern Musketeer
as Mrs. Thacker
(1917)
A Little Princess
as (uncredited)
(1917)
On the Level
as Joe Blanchard's Mother
(1917)
The Countess Charming
as Mrs. Lovering
(1917)
The Crystal Gazer
as Mrs. Mannering
(1917)
A School for Husbands
as Mrs. Manners
(1917)
A Mormon Maid
as Nancy Hogue
(1917)
The Girl at Home
as Mary Dexter
(1916)
Oliver Twist
as Mrs. Brownlow
(1916)
The Selfish Woman
as Mrs. Hale
(1915)
The Golden Chance
as Mrs. Hillary
(1915)
The Pretty Sister of Jose
as The Mother
(1914)
Richelieu
as The Queen