1863-10-07 Rochester, New York, USA
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.
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Take the Heir | Lady Tweedham | 1930-01-15 |
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Up the River | Mrs. Jordan (uncredited) | 1930-10-10 |
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Man Trouble | Aunt Maggie | 1930-08-24 |
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Double Cross Roads | Mrs. Carlyle | 1930-04-20 |
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The Idle Rich | Mrs. Alice Thayer | 1929-06-15 |
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Navy Blues | Mrs. Brown | 1929-12-20 |
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Twin Beds | Ma Dolan | 1929-07-14 |
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Synthetic Sin | Mrs. Fairfax | 1929-01-06 |
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Heart Trouble | 1928-10-01 | |
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Love Hungry | Ma Robinson | 1928-04-08 |
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited) | 1928-01-30 |
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Sally's Shoulders | Emily | 1928-10-14 |
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Happiness Ahead | Mrs. Randall | 1928-06-24 |
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Three Week Ends | Ma O'Brien | 1928-12-08 |
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The Count of Ten | Mother McKinney | 1928-03-10 |
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The Shepherd of the Hills | Aunt Mollie | 1928-01-01 |
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The Little Yellow House | Grandmother Pentland | 1928-04-18 |
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Man Crazy | Grandmother Janeway | 1927-11-27 |
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Naughty But Nice | Mrs. Altewood | 1927-06-25 |
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The Crystal Cup | Mrs. Carteret | 1927-10-16 |
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American Beauty | Madame O'Riley | 1927-10-09 |
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Faithful Wives | The Mother | 1926-11-25 |
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The Runaway | Mrs. Murrell | 1926-04-04 |
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Three Faces East | Mrs. Bennett | 1926-02-03 |
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The Boob | The Old Lady (uncredited) | 1926-05-17 |
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One Minute to Play | Mrs. Wade | 1926-09-12 |
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Soul Mates | Tancred's mother | 1925-05-28 |
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Havoc | Mrs. Chappel | 1925-09-27 |
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Learning to Love | Aunt Penelope | 1925-01-25 |
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Lightnin' | Mrs. Jones | 1925-08-23 |
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In the Name of Love | Mother Melnotte | 1925-08-10 |
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The Pride of the Force | Mother Moore | 1925-09-11 |
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Lazybones | Mrs. Tuttle | 1925-11-06 |
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The Breaking Point | Lucy Livingstone | 1924-05-04 |
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The Wise Virgin | Mrs. John Farrington | 1924-08-10 |
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Daughters of Pleasure | Mrs. Hadley | 1924-06-15 |
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Broken Barriers | Beulah Reynolds | 1924-08-18 |
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The Shadow of the East | Aunt Caroline | 1924-01-27 |
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Worldly Goods | Mrs. Lawson | 1924-11-24 |
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The Girl I Loved | Mother Middleton | 1923-02-15 |
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The Ten Commandments | Mrs. Martha McTavish | 1923-11-23 |
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Divorce | Mrs. George Reed | 1923-06-10 |
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Chastity | Mrs. Harris | 1923-12-31 |
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The Miracle Makers | Mrs. Martha Mansfield | 1923-10-14 |
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Hollywood | Edythe Chapman | 1923-08-19 |
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Youth to Youth | Mrs. Cora Knittson | 1922-10-16 |
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Manslaughter | Adeline Bennett | 1922-09-24 |
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Beyond the Rocks | Lady Bracondale | 1922-05-07 |
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A Tailor-Made Man | Mrs. Nathan | 1922-08-05 |
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Saturday Night | Mrs. Prentiss | 1922-01-29 |
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North of the Rio Grande | Belle Hannon | 1922-05-14 |
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My American Wife | Donna Isabella LaTassa | 1922-12-31 |
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The Sleep Walker | Sister Ursula | 1922-04-09 |
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Her Husband’s Trademark | Mother Berkeley | 1922-02-01 |
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Dangerous Curve Ahead | Mrs. Mabee | 1921-10-02 |
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Alias Ladyfingers | Rachel Stetherill | 1921-10-30 |
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A Wife's Awakening | Mrs. Kelcey | 1921-09-25 |
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A Tale of Two Worlds | Mrs. Newcombe | 1921-03-13 |
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Bits of Life | 1921-09-26 | |
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Bunty Pulls the Strings | Eelen Dunlap | 1921-01-02 |
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One Wild Week | Mrs. Dorn | 1921-04-08 |
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Voices of the City | Mrs. Rodman | 1921-12-01 |
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Out of the Storm | Lady Bridgeminster | 1920-06-14 |
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The County Fair | Aunt Abigail Prue | 1920-09-05 |
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Huckleberry Finn | Aunt Polly | 1920-02-29 |
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Just Out of College | Mrs. Pickering | 1920-11-27 |
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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come | Mrs. Dean | 1920-02-01 |
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A Double-Dyed Deceiver | Senora Urique | 1920-06-22 |
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Pinto | Mrs. Audry | 1920-01-10 |
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You Never Saw Such a Girl | Mrs. Burgess | 1919-02-16 |
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An Innocent Adventuress | Aunt Heppy | 1919-06-08 |
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Deliverance | Sarah Fuller | 1919-08-18 |
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Fires of Faith | Mrs. Booth | 1919-08-03 |
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Everywoman | Truth | 1919-12-30 |
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The Knickerbocker Buckaroo | Teddy's Mother | 1919-05-25 |
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Flame of the Desert | Lady Snowden | 1919-10-26 |
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The Winning Girl | Second Mrs. Milligan | 1919-02-23 |
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The Home Town Girl | Mrs. Fanshawe | 1919-05-11 |
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Peg o' My Heart | 1919-01-01 | |
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Experimental Marriage | Mrs. Ercoll | 1919-03-10 |
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Alias Mike Moran | Ma Young | 1919-03-02 |
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Faith | Martha Owen | 1919-02-03 |
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Secret Service | Mrs. Varney | 1919-06-15 |
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Sandy | Mrs. Hollis | 1918-07-01 |
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The Gypsy Trail | Grandma | 1918-11-17 |
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Old Wives for New | Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited) | 1918-05-18 |
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The Spirit of '17 | Mrs. Glidden | 1918-01-26 |
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Unexpected Places | Mrs. Penfield | 1918-09-30 |
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The Whispering Chorus | John Tremble's mother | 1918-03-28 |
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Huck and Tom | Aunt Polly | 1918-03-04 |
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Rose o' Paradise | Peg Grandoken | 1918-05-13 |
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Borrowed Clothes | Mary's Mother | 1918-11-04 |
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His Majesty, Bunker Bean | Older Mrs. Breede | 1918-04-08 |
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The Only Road | Clara Hawkins | 1918-06-03 |
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Bound in Morocco | Ysail's Mother | 1918-07-28 |
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Say! Young Fellow | A Sweet Spinster | 1918-06-16 |
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The Ghost House | Mrs. Rawson | 1917-10-01 |
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The Little American | Mrs. von Austreim | 1917-07-12 |
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A Little Princess | (uncredited) | 1917-11-05 |
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The Countess Charming | Mrs. Lovering | 1917-09-16 |
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A Modern Musketeer | Mrs. Thacker | 1917-12-30 |
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The Evil Eye | 1917-01-04 | |
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A Mormon Maid | Nancy Hogue | 1917-04-21 |
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Tom Sawyer | Aunt Polly | 1917-12-10 |
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A School for Husbands | Mrs. Manners | 1917-04-05 |
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The Crystal Gazer | Mrs. Mannering | 1917-07-30 |
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On the Level | Joe Blanchard's Mother | 1917-09-10 |
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The Girl at Home | Mary Dexter | 1917-04-26 |
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The Selfish Woman | Mrs. Hale | 1916-07-09 |
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Public Opinion | Mrs. Carson Morgan | 1916-08-20 |
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Anton the Terrible | Babushka (Anton's mother) | 1916-09-28 |
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The Plow Girl | Lady Brentwood | 1916-11-13 |
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Oliver Twist | Mrs. Brownlow | 1916-12-10 |
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The Heir to the Hoorah | Mrs. Kent | 1916-10-26 |
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The Golden Chance | Mrs. Hillary | 1915-12-30 |
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The Pretty Sister of Jose | The Mother | 1915-05-31 |
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Richelieu | The Queen | 1914-09-26 |
