
Edythe Chapman
Acting
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.

Up the River
Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)

Man Trouble
Aunt Maggie

Double Cross Roads
Mrs. Carlyle
Take the Heir
Lady Tweedham

Navy Blues
Mrs. Brown

Twin Beds
Ma Dolan

The Idle Rich
Mrs. Alice Thayer

Synthetic Sin
Mrs. Fairfax

Three Week Ends
Ma O'Brien

Sally's Shoulders
Emily

Heart Trouble

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
Man Crazy
Grandmother Janeway

The Crystal Cup
Mrs. Carteret

American Beauty
Madame O'Riley

Naughty But Nice
Mrs. Altewood
Faithful Wives
The Mother

One Minute to Play
Mrs. Wade

The Boob
The Old Lady (uncredited)

The Runaway
Mrs. Murrell

Three Faces East
Mrs. Bennett

Lazybones
Mrs. Tuttle

Havoc
Mrs. Chappel
The Pride of the Force
Mother Moore

Lightnin'
Mrs. Jones

In the Name of Love
Mother Melnotte

Soul Mates
Tancred's mother

Learning to Love
Aunt Penelope

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

Chastity
Mrs. Harris

The Ten Commandments
Mrs. Martha McTavish

The Miracle Makers
Mrs. Martha Mansfield

Hollywood
Edythe Chapman

Divorce
Mrs. George Reed

The Girl I Loved
Mother Middleton

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

Voices of the City
Mrs. Rodman

Alias Ladyfingers
Rachel Stetherill

Dangerous Curve Ahead
Mrs. Mabee

Bits of Life

A Wife's Awakening
Mrs. Kelcey
One Wild Week
Mrs. Dorn

A Tale of Two Worlds
Mrs. Newcombe

Bunty Pulls the Strings
Eelen Dunlap

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

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
You Never Saw Such a Girl
Mrs. Burgess

Faith
Martha Owen
Peg o' My Heart

The Gypsy Trail
Grandma

Borrowed Clothes
Mary's Mother

Unexpected Places
Mrs. Penfield

Bound in Morocco
Ysail's Mother

Sandy
Mrs. Hollis

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

A Modern Musketeer
Mrs. Thacker

Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly

A Little Princess
(uncredited)

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
The Evil Eye

Oliver Twist
Mrs. Brownlow

The Plow Girl
Lady Brentwood

The Heir to the Hoorah
Mrs. Kent

Anton the Terrible
Babushka (Anton's mother)
Public Opinion
Mrs. Carson Morgan

The Selfish Woman
Mrs. Hale

The Golden Chance
Mrs. Hillary

The Pretty Sister of Jose
The Mother

Richelieu
The Queen







