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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 7, 1863
Died
October 15, 1948
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Edith van Renssaleer
Edythe Chapman
0.2 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
5.8
Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)
Up the River
1930
5.0
Aunt Maggie
Man Trouble
1930
0.0
Mrs. Carlyle
Double Cross Roads
1930
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0.0
Lady Tweedham
Take the Heir
1930
7.0
Mrs. Brown
Navy Blues
1929
0.0
Ma Dolan
Twin Beds
1929
5.7
Mrs. Alice Thayer
The Idle Rich
1929
0.0
Mrs. Fairfax
Synthetic Sin
1929
0.0
Ma O'Brien
Three Week Ends
1928
0.0
Heart Trouble
1928
Credits
Up the River
as Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)
1930
5.8
Man Trouble
as Aunt Maggie
1930
5.0
Double Cross Roads
as Mrs. Carlyle
1930
0.0
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Take the Heir
as Lady Tweedham
1930
0.0
Navy Blues
as Mrs. Brown
1929
7.0
Twin Beds
as Ma Dolan
1929
0.0
The Idle Rich
as Mrs. Alice Thayer
1929
5.7
Synthetic Sin
as Mrs. Fairfax
1929
0.0
Three Week Ends
as Ma O'Brien
1928
0.0
Heart Trouble
1928
0.0
Happiness Ahead
as Mrs. Randall
1928
0.0
The Little Yellow House
as Grandmother Pentland
1928
0.0
Love Hungry
as Ma Robinson
1928
0.0
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
as Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)
1928
7.3
The Shepherd of the Hills
as Aunt Mollie
1928
0.0
The Crystal Cup
as Mrs. Carteret
1927
0.0
American Beauty
as Madame O'Riley
1927
1.0
Naughty But Nice
as Mrs. Altewood
1927
0.0
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Faithful Wives
as The Mother
1926
0.0
One Minute to Play
as Mrs. Wade
1926
4.5
The Boob
as The Old Lady (uncredited)
1926
5.8
The Runaway
as Mrs. Murrell
1926
0.0
Three Faces East
as Mrs. Bennett
1926
0.0
Lazybones
as Mrs. Tuttle
1925
6.5
Havoc
as Mrs. Chappel
1925
0.0
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The Pride of the Force
as Mother Moore
1925
0.0
Lightnin'
as Mrs. Jones
1925
5.2
In the Name of Love
as Mother Melnotte
1925
0.0
Learning to Love
as Aunt Penelope
1925
0.0
Broken Barriers
as Beulah Reynolds
1924
1.0
Daughters of Pleasure
as Mrs. Hadley
1924
0.0
The Breaking Point
as Lucy Livingstone
1924
0.0
The Shadow of the East
as Aunt Caroline
1924
0.0
Chastity
as Mrs. Harris
1923
0.0
The Ten Commandments
as Mrs. Martha McTavish
1923
6.5
Hollywood
as Edythe Chapman
1923
7.0
The Girl I Loved
as Mother Middleton
1923
0.0
My American Wife
as Donna Isabella LaTassa
1922
0.0
Manslaughter
as Adeline Bennett
1922
5.4
A Tailor-Made Man
as Mrs. Nathan
1922
0.0
North of the Rio Grande
as Belle Hannon
1922
0.0
Beyond the Rocks
as Lady Bracondale
1922
6.2
Her Husband’s Trademark
as Mother Berkeley
1922
0.0
Saturday Night
as Mrs. Prentiss
1922
5.8
Voices of the City
as Mrs. Rodman
1921
0.0
Alias Ladyfingers
as Rachel Stetherill
1921
6.0
Dangerous Curve Ahead
as Mrs. Mabee
1921
0.0
Bits of Life
1921
0.0
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One Wild Week
as Mrs. Dorn
1921
0.0
Bunty Pulls the Strings
as Eelen Dunlap
1921
0.0
The County Fair
as Aunt Abigail Prue
1920
4.7
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
as Senora Urique
1920
0.0
Huckleberry Finn
as Aunt Polly
1920
5.8
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
as Mrs. Dean
1920
0.0
Pinto
as Mrs. Audry
1920
0.0
Everywoman
as Truth
1919
0.0
Flame of the Desert
as Lady Snowden
1919
0.0
Fires of Faith
as Mrs. Booth
1919
0.0
Secret Service
as Mrs. Varney
1919
0.0
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
as Teddy's Mother
1919
6.0
Experimental Marriage
as Mrs. Ercoll
1919
0.0
Alias Mike Moran
as Ma Young
1919
0.0
🎬
The Winning Girl
as Second Mrs. Milligan
1919
0.0
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Peg o' My Heart
1919
0.0
The Gypsy Trail
as Grandma
1918
0.0
Borrowed Clothes
as Mary's Mother
1918
0.0
Unexpected Places
as Mrs. Penfield
1918
0.0
Bound in Morocco
as Ysail's Mother
1918
0.0
Say! Young Fellow
as A Sweet Spinster
1918
0.0
The Only Road
as Clara Hawkins
1918
0.0
Old Wives for New
as Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)
1918
6.5
Rose o' Paradise
as Peg Grandoken
1918
0.0
The Whispering Chorus
as John Tremble's mother
1918
6.3
Huck and Tom
as Aunt Polly
1918
0.0
The Spirit of '17
as Mrs. Glidden
1918
0.0
A Modern Musketeer
as Mrs. Thacker
1917
5.2
Tom Sawyer
as Aunt Polly
1917
5.0
A Little Princess
as (uncredited)
1917
5.2
The Countess Charming
as Mrs. Lovering
1917
0.0
On the Level
as Joe Blanchard's Mother
1917
0.0
The Crystal Gazer
as Mrs. Mannering
1917
0.0
The Little American
as Mrs. von Austreim
1917
6.3
The Girl at Home
as Mary Dexter
1917
0.0
A Mormon Maid
as Nancy Hogue
1917
5.0
A School for Husbands
as Mrs. Manners
1917
0.0
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The Evil Eye
1917
0.0
Oliver Twist
as Mrs. Brownlow
1916
0.0
The Selfish Woman
as Mrs. Hale
1916
0.0
The Golden Chance
as Mrs. Hillary
1915
6.5
The Pretty Sister of Jose
as The Mother
1915
0.0
Richelieu
as The Queen
1914
0.0