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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
Thursday, 08 October 1863
Died
Friday, 15 October 1948
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Up the River | Mrs. Jordan | 1930 |
Man Trouble | Aunt Maggie | 1930 |
Double Cross Roads | Mrs. Carlyle | 1930 |
Navy Blues | Mrs. Brown | 1929 |
The Idle Rich | Mrs. Thayer / Mrs. Alice Thayer | 1929 |
Synthetic Sin | Mrs. Fairfax | 1929 |
Three Week Ends | Ma O'Brien | 1928 |
Sally's Shoulders | Emily | 1928 |
Heart Trouble | 1928 | |
The Little Yellow House | Grandmother Pentland | 1928 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Up the River | Mrs. Jordan | 1930 |
Man Trouble | Aunt Maggie | 1930 |
Double Cross Roads | Mrs. Carlyle | 1930 |
Navy Blues | Mrs. Brown | 1929 |
The Idle Rich | Mrs. Thayer / Mrs. Alice Thayer | 1929 |
Synthetic Sin | Mrs. Fairfax | 1929 |
Three Week Ends | Ma O'Brien | 1928 |
Sally's Shoulders | Emily | 1928 |
Heart Trouble | 1928 | |
The Little Yellow House | Grandmother Pentland | 1928 |
Love Hungry | Ma Robinson | 1928 |
The Count of Ten | Mother McKinney | 1928 |
The American Beauty | Madame O'Riley | 1927 |
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Young Karl's Nanny | 1927 |
Naughty But Nice | Mrs. Altewood | 1927 |
One Minute to Play | Mrs. Wade | 1926 |
The Boob | The Old Lady | 1926 |
The Runaway | Mrs. Murrell | 1926 |
Lazybones | Mrs. Tuttle | 1925 |
Classified | 'Maw' Comet | 1925 |
The Pride of the Force | Mother Moore | 1925 |
Lightnin' | Mrs. Jones | 1925 |
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting | Mrs. Greenough | 1925 |
Broken Barriers | Beulah Reynolds | 1924 |
The Wise Virgin | Mrs. John Farrington | 1924 |
Daughters of Pleasure | Mrs. Hadley | 1924 |
The Breaking Point | Lucy Livingstone | 1924 |
The Shadow of the East | Aunt Caroline | 1924 |
Chastity | Mrs. Harris | 1923 |
The Ten Commandments | Mrs. Martha McTavish | 1923 |
Hollywood | EDthe Chapman / Edythe Chapman | 1923 |
My American Wife | Donna Isabella LaTassa | 1922 |
Youth to Youth | Mrs. Cora Knittson | 1922 |
Manslaughter | Adeline Bennett | 1922 |
A Tailor-Made Man | Mrs. Nathan | 1922 |
Beyond the Rocks | Lady Bracondale | 1922 |
Her Husband's Trademark | Mother Berkeley | 1922 |
Saturday Night | Mrs. Prentiss | 1922 |
Voices of the City | Mrs. Rodman | 1921 |
Alias Ladyfingers | Rachel Stetherill | 1921 |
Dangerous Curve Ahead | Mrs. Mabee | 1921 |
Bits of Life | 1921 | |
A Wife's Awakening | Mrs. Kelcey | 1921 |
One Wild Week | Mrs. Dorn | 1921 |
A Tale of Two Worlds | Mrs. Newcombe | 1921 |
The County Fair | Aunt Abigail Prue | 1920 |
Huckleberry Finn | Aunt Polly | 1920 |
Pinto | Mrs. Audry | 1920 |
Everywoman | Truth | 1919 |
Secret Service | Mrs. Varney | 1919 |
An Innocent Adventuress | Aunt Heppy | 1919 |
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo | Teddy's Mother | 1919 |
The Rescuing Angel | Mrs. Deming | 1919 |
Experimental Marriage | Mrs. Ercoll | 1919 |
You Never Saw Such a Girl | Mrs. Burgess | 1919 |
The Gypsy Trail | Grandma | 1918 |
Borrowed Clothes | Mary's Mother | 1918 |
Bound in Morocco | Ysail's Mother | 1918 |
Say! Young Fellow | A Sweet Spinster | 1918 |
The Only Road | Clara Hawkins | 1918 |
Old Wives for New | Mrs. Berkeley | 1918 |
Rose o' Paradise | Peg Grandoken | 1918 |
The Whispering Chorus | John Tremble's mother | 1918 |
Huck and Tom | Aunt Polly | 1918 |
The Spirit of '17 | Mrs. Glidden | 1918 |
A Modern Musketeer | Mrs. Thacker | 1917 |
Tom Sawyer | Aunt Polly | 1917 |
The Countess Charming | Mrs. Lovering | 1917 |
The Little American | Mrs. von Austreim | 1917 |
The Girl at Home | Mary Dexter | 1917 |
A Mormon Maid | Nancy Hogue | 1917 |
Oliver Twist | Mrs. Brownlow | 1916 |
The Plow Girl | Lady Brentwood | 1916 |
The Heir to the Hoorah | Mrs. Kent | 1916 |
Anton the Terrible | Babushka (Anton's mother) | 1916 |
The Selfish Woman | Mrs. Hale | 1916 |
The Golden Chance | Mrs. Hillary | 1915 |
The Pretty Sister of Jose | The Mother | 1915 |