Edythe Chapman
Biography
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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.
Acting (89 movies)
The Ten Commandments
1923
Bunty Pulls the Strings
1921
Hollywood
1923
Borrowed Clothes
1918
North of the Rio Grande
1922
Bits of Life
1921
A Mormon Maid
1917
In the Name of Love
1925
Broken Barriers
1924
Huck and Tom
1918
Alias Ladyfingers
1921
A Tailor-Made Man
1922
The Countess Charming
1917
The Selfish Woman
1916
Alias Mike Moran
1919
A Modern Musketeer
1917
The Whispering Chorus
1918
Love Hungry
1928
Manslaughter
1922
One Minute to Play
1926
The Pretty Sister of Jose
1915
The Idle Rich
1929
Navy Blues
1929
The Boob
1926
Three Faces East
1926
Flame of the Desert
1919
The Runaway
1926
Unexpected Places
1918
The Spirit of '17
1918
Saturday Night
1922
Pinto
1920
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1928
Man Trouble
1930
Lazybones
1925
Her Husband’s Trademark
1922
Synthetic Sin
1929
Lightnin'
1925
The County Fair
1920
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
Beyond the Rocks
1922
Chastity
1923
Huckleberry Finn
1920
The Golden Chance
1915
Rose o' Paradise
1918
Double Cross Roads
1930
Twin Beds
1929
Old Wives for New
1918
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
1920
Voices of the City
1921
Havoc
1925
Three Week Ends
1928
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
1920
Learning to Love
1925
The Little American
1917
A Little Princess
1917
Naughty But Nice
1927
Say! Young Fellow
1918
Bound in Morocco
1918
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
1919
Tom Sawyer
1917
Oliver Twist
1916
Heart Trouble
1928
My American Wife
1922
Richelieu
1914
Experimental Marriage
1919
American Beauty
1927
Secret Service
1919
The Crystal Cup
1927
Up the River
1930
The Only Road
1918
The Girl at Home
1917
Happiness Ahead
1928
The Shepherd of the Hills
1928
Everywoman
1919
Dangerous Curve Ahead
1921
The Girl I Loved
1923
The Shadow of the East
1924
The Breaking Point
1924
Fires of Faith
1919
The Little Yellow House
1928
On the Level
1917
The Crystal Gazer
1917
A School for Husbands
1917
The Gypsy Trail
1918
Sally's Shoulders
1928
Soul Mates
1925
Just Out of College
1920
The Wise Virgin
1924
Sandy
1918
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