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.
Movie | Up the River | Mrs. Jordan (uncredited) | 1930-10-10 |
Movie | Take the Heir | 1930-01-15 | |
Movie | Double Cross Roads | Mrs. Carlyle | 1930-04-20 |
Movie | Man Trouble | Aunt Maggie | 1930-08-24 |
Movie | The Idle Rich | Mrs. Alice Thayer | 1929-06-15 |
Movie | Synthetic Sin | Mrs. Fairfax | 1929-01-06 |
Movie | Navy Blues | Mrs. Brown | 1929-12-20 |
Movie | The Shepherd of the Hills | Aunt Mollie | 1928-01-01 |
Movie | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited) | 1928-01-30 |
Movie | Happiness Ahead | Mrs. Randall | 1928-06-24 |
Movie | Three Week Ends | Ma O'Brien | 1928-12-08 |
Movie | Heart Trouble | 1928-10-01 | |
Movie | Naughty But Nice | Mrs. Altewood | 1927-06-25 |
Movie | American Beauty | Madame O'Riley | 1927-10-09 |
Movie | The Crystal Cup | Mrs. Carteret | 1927-10-16 |
Movie | The Runaway | Mrs. Murrell | 1926-04-04 |
Movie | The Boob | The Old Lady (uncredited) | 1926-05-17 |
Movie | One Minute to Play | Mrs. Wade | 1926-09-12 |
Movie | Lightnin' | Mrs. Jones | 1925-08-23 |
Movie | Learning to Love | Aunt Penelope | 1925-01-25 |
Movie | Lazybones | Mrs. Tuttle | 1925-11-06 |
Movie | Daughters of Pleasure | Mrs. Hadley | 1924-06-15 |
Movie | Broken Barriers | Beulah Reynolds | 1924-08-18 |
Movie | Hollywood | Edythe Chapman | 1923-08-19 |
Movie | Chastity | Mrs. Harris | 1923-12-31 |
Movie | The Ten Commandments | Mrs. Martha McTavish | 1923-11-23 |
Movie | Beyond the Rocks | Lady Bracondale | 1922-05-07 |
Movie | Saturday Night | Mrs. Prentiss | 1922-01-29 |
Movie | Her Husband’s Trademark | Mother Berkeley | 1922-02-01 |
Movie | A Tailor-Made Man | Mrs. Nathan | 1922-08-05 |
Movie | My American Wife | Donna Isabella LaTassa | 1922-12-31 |
Movie | Manslaughter | Adeline Bennett | 1922-09-24 |
Movie | Dangerous Curve Ahead | Mrs. Mabee | 1921-10-02 |
Movie | Voices of the City | Mrs. Rodman | 1921-12-01 |
Movie | The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come | Mrs. Dean | 1920-02-01 |
Movie | Pinto | Mrs. Audry | 1920-01-10 |
Movie | Huckleberry Finn | Aunt Polly | 1920-02-29 |
Movie | The County Fair | Aunt Abigail Prue | 1920-09-05 |
Movie | The Knickerbocker Buckaroo | Teddy's Mother | 1919-05-25 |
Movie | Experimental Marriage | Mrs. Ercoll | 1919-03-10 |
Movie | Secret Service | Mrs. Varney | 1919-06-15 |
Movie | Flame of the Desert | Lady Snowden | 1919-10-26 |
Movie | Everywoman | Truth | 1919-12-30 |
Movie | Rose o' Paradise | Peg Grandoken | 1918-05-13 |
Movie | The Whispering Chorus | John Tremble's mother | 1918-03-28 |
Movie | Old Wives for New | Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited) | 1918-05-18 |
Movie | Bound in Morocco | Ysail's Mother | 1918-07-28 |
Movie | The Only Road | Clara Hawkins | 1918-06-03 |
Movie | Borrowed Clothes | Mary's Mother | 1918-11-04 |
Movie | Say! Young Fellow | A Sweet Spinster | 1918-06-16 |
Movie | The Girl at Home | Mary Dexter | 1917-04-26 |
Movie | The Evil Eye | 1917-01-04 | |
Movie | The Little American | Mrs. von Austreim | 1917-07-12 |
Movie | A Mormon Maid | Nancy Hogue | 1917-04-21 |
Movie | The Countess Charming | Mrs. Lovering | 1917-09-16 |
Movie | A Little Princess | (uncredited) | 1917-11-05 |
Movie | A Modern Musketeer | Mrs. Thacker | 1917-12-30 |
Movie | Tom Sawyer | Aunt Polly | 1917-12-10 |
Movie | Oliver Twist | Mrs. Brownlow | 1916-12-10 |
Movie | The Golden Chance | Mrs. Hillary | 1915-12-30 |
Movie | Richelieu | The Queen | 1914-09-26 |