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.
Take the Heir
(Lady Tweedham)
The Ten Commandments
(Mrs. Martha McTavish)
Bunty Pulls the Strings
(Eelen Dunlap)
Hollywood
(Edythe Chapman)
Borrowed Clothes
(Mary's Mother)
North of the Rio Grande
(Belle Hannon)
Bits of Life
A Mormon Maid
(Nancy Hogue)
In the Name of Love
(Mother Melnotte)
Broken Barriers
(Beulah Reynolds)
Huck and Tom
(Aunt Polly)
Alias Ladyfingers
(Rachel Stetherill)
A Tailor-Made Man
(Mrs. Nathan)
The Countess Charming
(Mrs. Lovering)
The Selfish Woman
(Mrs. Hale)
The Evil Eye
Alias Mike Moran
(Ma Young)
A Modern Musketeer
(Mrs. Thacker)
The Whispering Chorus
(John Tremble's mother)
Love Hungry
(Ma Robinson)
Manslaughter
(Adeline Bennett)
One Minute to Play
(Mrs. Wade)
The Pretty Sister of Jose
(The Mother)
The Pride of the Force
(Mother Moore)
The Idle Rich
(Mrs. Alice Thayer)
Navy Blues
(Mrs. Brown)
The Boob
(The Old Lady (uncredited))
Three Faces East
(Mrs. Bennett)
Flame of the Desert
(Lady Snowden)
The Runaway
(Mrs. Murrell)
Unexpected Places
(Mrs. Penfield)
The Spirit of '17
(Mrs. Glidden)
Saturday Night
(Mrs. Prentiss)
Pinto
(Mrs. Audry)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
(Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited))
The Winning Girl
(Second Mrs. Milligan)
Man Trouble
(Aunt Maggie)
Lazybones
(Mrs. Tuttle)
Her Husband’s Trademark
(Mother Berkeley)
Synthetic Sin
(Mrs. Fairfax)
Lightnin'
(Mrs. Jones)
The County Fair
(Aunt Abigail Prue)
Daughters of Pleasure
(Mrs. Hadley)
Beyond the Rocks
(Lady Bracondale)
Chastity
(Mrs. Harris)
Huckleberry Finn
(Aunt Polly)
The Golden Chance
(Mrs. Hillary)
Rose o' Paradise
(Peg Grandoken)
Double Cross Roads
(Mrs. Carlyle)
Twin Beds
(Ma Dolan)
Old Wives for New
(Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited))
One Wild Week
(Mrs. Dorn)
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
(Mrs. Dean)
Voices of the City
(Mrs. Rodman)
Havoc
(Mrs. Chappel)
Three Week Ends
(Ma O'Brien)
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
(Senora Urique)
Learning to Love
(Aunt Penelope)
The Little American
(Mrs. von Austreim)
A Little Princess
((uncredited))
Naughty But Nice
(Mrs. Altewood)
Say! Young Fellow
(A Sweet Spinster)
Bound in Morocco
(Ysail's Mother)
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
(Teddy's Mother)
Tom Sawyer
(Aunt Polly)
Oliver Twist
(Mrs. Brownlow)
Heart Trouble
My American Wife
(Donna Isabella LaTassa)
Richelieu
(The Queen)
Experimental Marriage
(Mrs. Ercoll)
American Beauty
(Madame O'Riley)
Secret Service
(Mrs. Varney)
The Crystal Cup
(Mrs. Carteret)
Up the River
(Mrs. Jordan (uncredited))
The Only Road
(Clara Hawkins)
The Girl at Home
(Mary Dexter)
Happiness Ahead
(Mrs. Randall)
The Shepherd of the Hills
(Aunt Mollie)
Everywoman
(Truth)
Dangerous Curve Ahead
(Mrs. Mabee)
The Girl I Loved
(Mother Middleton)
The Shadow of the East
(Aunt Caroline)
The Breaking Point
(Lucy Livingstone)
Fires of Faith
(Mrs. Booth)
The Little Yellow House
(Grandmother Pentland)