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 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.
117 acting credits
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The Ten Commandments
1923
Hollywood
1923
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1928
Navy Blues
1929
Saturday Night
1922
The Runaway
1926
Man Trouble
1930
Beyond the Rocks
1922
Manslaughter
1922
Lightnin'
1925
The County Fair
1920
The Boob
1926
Up the River
1930
The Idle Rich
1929
Tom Sawyer
1917
Richelieu
1914
American Beauty
1927
Secret Service
1919
My American Wife
1922
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
1920
Havoc
1925
Happiness Ahead
1928
The Count of Ten
1928
Old Wives for New
1918
Oliver Twist
1916
On the Level
1917
Everywoman
1919
The Golden Chance
1915
A Tale of Two Worlds
1921
Huckleberry Finn
1920
Anton the Terrible
1916
Lazybones
1925
A Tailor-Made Man
1922
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
1920
Bits of Life
1921
Synthetic Sin
1929
Broken Barriers
1924
Twin Beds
1929
Chastity
1923
Pinto
1920
The Little American
1917
Unexpected Places
1918
Love Hungry
1928
Flame of the Desert
1919
The Crystal Gazer
1917
One Minute to Play
1926
Faithful Wives
1926
The Selfish Woman
1916
The Whispering Chorus
1918
Heart Trouble
1928
Double Cross Roads
1930
The Shepherd of the Hills
1928
Bunty Pulls the Strings
1921
In the Name of Love
1925
The Only Road
1918
Say! Young Fellow
1918
Alias Ladyfingers
1921
Sandy
1918
Sally's Shoulders
1928
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
Out of the Storm
1920
An Innocent Adventuress
1919
A Mormon Maid
1917
The Winning Girl
1919
Take the Heir
1930
Dangerous Curve Ahead
1921
Her Husband’s Trademark
1922
A Modern Musketeer
1917
Learning to Love
1925
The Pride of the Force
1925
The Ghost House
1917
A Little Princess
1917
Bound in Morocco
1918
The Little Yellow House
1928
The Shadow of the East
1924
The Pretty Sister of Jose
1915
The Heir to the Hoorah
1916
Huck and Tom
1918
Fires of Faith
1919
Deliverance
1919
The Girl I Loved
1923
Three Week Ends
1928
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
1919
Three Faces East
1926
The Gypsy Trail
1918
The Countess Charming
1917
Experimental Marriage
1919
The Home Town Girl
1919
Alias Mike Moran
1919
Public Opinion
1916
A School for Husbands
1917
The Crystal Cup
1927
Voices of the City
1921
The Breaking Point
1924
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
1918
The Evil Eye
1917
Faith
1919
Rose o' Paradise
1918
Peg o' My Heart
1919
Borrowed Clothes
1918
Divorce
1923
The Girl at Home
1917
One Wild Week
1921
The Sleep Walker
1922
Youth to Youth
1922
Worldly Goods
1924
Naughty But Nice
1927
Soul Mates
1925
The Wise Virgin
1924
The Miracle Makers
1923
North of the Rio Grande
1922
The Plow Girl
1916
A Wife's Awakening
1921
The Spirit of '17
1918
Just Out of College
1920
Man Crazy
1927
You Never Saw Such a Girl
1919