Edythe Chapman

Known For: Acting
Born: October 7, 1863
Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA
Died: October 15, 1948

Edythe Chapman

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 d…

Filmography

Up the River

1930 · Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)

Man Trouble

1930 · Aunt Maggie

Double Cross Roads

1930 · Mrs. Carlyle

Take the Heir

1930 · Lady Tweedham

Navy Blues

1929 · Mrs. Brown

Twin Beds

1929 · Ma Dolan

The Idle Rich

1929 · Mrs. Alice Thayer

Synthetic Sin

1929 · Mrs. Fairfax

Three Week Ends

1928 · Ma O'Brien

Sally's Shoulders

1928 · Emily

Heart Trouble

1928

Happiness Ahead

1928 · Mrs. Randall

The Little Yellow House

1928 · Grandmother Pentland

Love Hungry

1928 · Ma Robinson

The Count of Ten

1928 · Mother McKinney

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

1928 · Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)

The Shepherd of the Hills

1928 · Aunt Mollie

Man Crazy

1927 · Grandmother Janeway

The Crystal Cup

1927 · Mrs. Carteret

American Beauty

1927 · Madame O'Riley

Naughty But Nice

1927 · Mrs. Altewood

Faithful Wives

1926 · The Mother

One Minute to Play

1926 · Mrs. Wade

The Boob

1926 · The Old Lady (uncredited)

The Runaway

1926 · Mrs. Murrell

Three Faces East

1926 · Mrs. Bennett

Lazybones

1925 · Mrs. Tuttle

Havoc

1925 · Mrs. Chappel

The Pride of the Force

The Pride of the Force

1925 · Mother Moore

Lightnin'

1925 · Mrs. Jones

In the Name of Love

1925 · Mother Melnotte

Soul Mates

1925 · Tancred's mother

Learning to Love

1925 · Aunt Penelope

Worldly Goods

1924 · Mrs. Lawson

Broken Barriers

1924 · Beulah Reynolds

The Wise Virgin

1924 · Mrs. John Farrington

Daughters of Pleasure

1924 · Mrs. Hadley

The Breaking Point

1924 · Lucy Livingstone

The Shadow of the East

1924 · Aunt Caroline

Chastity

1923 · Mrs. Harris

The Ten Commandments

1923 · Mrs. Martha McTavish

The Miracle Makers

1923 · Mrs. Martha Mansfield

Hollywood

1923 · Edythe Chapman

Divorce

1923 · Mrs. George Reed

The Girl I Loved

1923 · Mother Middleton

My American Wife

1922 · Donna Isabella LaTassa

Youth to Youth

1922 · Mrs. Cora Knittson

Manslaughter

1922 · Adeline Bennett

A Tailor-Made Man

1922 · Mrs. Nathan

North of the Rio Grande

1922 · Belle Hannon

Beyond the Rocks

1922 · Lady Bracondale

The Sleep Walker

1922 · Sister Ursula

Her Husband’s Trademark

1922 · Mother Berkeley

Saturday Night

1922 · Mrs. Prentiss

Voices of the City

1921 · Mrs. Rodman

Alias Ladyfingers

1921 · Rachel Stetherill

Dangerous Curve Ahead

1921 · Mrs. Mabee

Bits of Life

1921

A Wife's Awakening

1921 · Mrs. Kelcey

One Wild Week

1921 · Mrs. Dorn

A Tale of Two Worlds

1921 · Mrs. Newcombe

Bunty Pulls the Strings

1921 · Eelen Dunlap

Just Out of College

1920 · Mrs. Pickering

The County Fair

1920 · Aunt Abigail Prue

A Double-Dyed Deceiver

1920 · Senora Urique

Out of the Storm

1920 · Lady Bridgeminster

Huckleberry Finn

1920 · Aunt Polly

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

1920 · Mrs. Dean

Pinto

1920 · Mrs. Audry

Everywoman

1919 · Truth

Flame of the Desert

1919 · Lady Snowden

Deliverance

1919 · Sarah Fuller

Fires of Faith

1919 · Mrs. Booth

Secret Service

1919 · Mrs. Varney

An Innocent Adventuress

1919 · Aunt Heppy

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

1919 · Teddy's Mother

The Home Town Girl

1919 · Mrs. Fanshawe

Experimental Marriage

1919 · Mrs. Ercoll

Alias Mike Moran

1919 · Ma Young

The Winning Girl

1919 · Second Mrs. Milligan

You Never Saw Such a Girl

You Never Saw Such a Girl

1919 · Mrs. Burgess

Faith

1919 · Martha Owen

Peg o' My Heart

Peg o' My Heart

1919

The Gypsy Trail

1918 · Grandma

Borrowed Clothes

1918 · Mary's Mother

Unexpected Places

1918 · Mrs. Penfield

Bound in Morocco

1918 · Ysail's Mother

Sandy

1918 · Mrs. Hollis

Say! Young Fellow

1918 · A Sweet Spinster

The Only Road

1918 · Clara Hawkins

Old Wives for New

1918 · Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)

Rose o' Paradise

1918 · Peg Grandoken

His Majesty, Bunker Bean

1918 · Older Mrs. Breede

The Whispering Chorus

1918 · John Tremble's mother

Huck and Tom

1918 · Aunt Polly

The Spirit of '17

1918 · Mrs. Glidden

A Modern Musketeer

1917 · Mrs. Thacker

Tom Sawyer

1917 · Aunt Polly

A Little Princess

1917 · (uncredited)

The Ghost House

1917 · Mrs. Rawson

The Countess Charming

1917 · Mrs. Lovering

On the Level

1917 · Joe Blanchard's Mother

The Crystal Gazer

1917 · Mrs. Mannering

The Little American

1917 · Mrs. von Austreim

The Girl at Home

1917 · Mary Dexter

A Mormon Maid

1917 · Nancy Hogue

A School for Husbands

1917 · Mrs. Manners

The Evil Eye

1917

Oliver Twist

1916 · Mrs. Brownlow

The Plow Girl

1916 · Lady Brentwood

The Heir to the Hoorah

1916 · Mrs. Kent

Anton the Terrible

1916 · Babushka (Anton's mother)

Public Opinion

1916 · Mrs. Carson Morgan

The Selfish Woman

1916 · Mrs. Hale

The Golden Chance

1915 · Mrs. Hillary

The Pretty Sister of Jose

1915 · The Mother

Richelieu

1914 · The Queen

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