From WikipediaEdythe 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 Hollywoods 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. Neills 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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Movies unavailable from Edythe Chapman

Take the Heir

Lady Tweedham

Movie 1930

The Ten Commandments

Mrs. Martha McTavish

Movie 1923

Bunty Pulls the Strings

Eelen Dunlap

Movie 1921

Hollywood

Edythe Chapman

Movie 1923

Borrowed Clothes

Mary's Mother

Movie 1918

North of the Rio Grande

Belle Hannon

Movie 1922

Bits of Life

Movie 1921

A Mormon Maid

Nancy Hogue

Movie 1917

In the Name of Love

Mother Melnotte

Movie 1925

Broken Barriers

Beulah Reynolds

Movie 1924

Huck and Tom

Aunt Polly

Movie 1918

Alias Ladyfingers

Rachel Stetherill

Movie 1921

A Tailor-Made Man

Mrs. Nathan

Movie 1922

The Countess Charming

Mrs. Lovering

Movie 1917

The Selfish Woman

Mrs. Hale

Movie 1916

The Evil Eye

Movie 1917

Alias Mike Moran

Ma Young

Movie 1919

A Modern Musketeer

Mrs. Thacker

Movie 1917

The Whispering Chorus

John Tremble's mother

Movie 1918

Love Hungry

Ma Robinson

Movie 1928

Manslaughter

Adeline Bennett

Movie 1922

One Minute to Play

Mrs. Wade

Movie 1926

The Pretty Sister of Jose

The Mother

Movie 1915

The Pride of the Force

Mother Moore

Movie 1925

The Idle Rich

Mrs. Alice Thayer

Movie 1929

Navy Blues

Mrs. Brown

Movie 1929

The Boob

The Old Lady (uncredited)

Movie 1926

Three Faces East

Mrs. Bennett

Movie 1926

Flame of the Desert

Lady Snowden

Movie 1919

The Runaway

Mrs. Murrell

Movie 1926

Unexpected Places

Mrs. Penfield

Movie 1918

The Spirit of '17

Mrs. Glidden

Movie 1918

Saturday Night

Mrs. Prentiss

Movie 1922

Pinto

Mrs. Audry

Movie 1920

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)

Movie 1928

The Winning Girl

Second Mrs. Milligan

Movie 1919

Man Trouble

Aunt Maggie

Movie 1930

Lazybones

Mrs. Tuttle

Movie 1925

Her Husband’s Trademark

Mother Berkeley

Movie 1922

Synthetic Sin

Mrs. Fairfax

Movie 1929

Lightnin'

Mrs. Jones

Movie 1925

The County Fair

Aunt Abigail Prue

Movie 1920

Daughters of Pleasure

Mrs. Hadley

Movie 1924

Beyond the Rocks

Lady Bracondale

Movie 1922

Chastity

Mrs. Harris

Movie 1923

Huckleberry Finn

Aunt Polly

Movie 1920

The Golden Chance

Mrs. Hillary

Movie 1915

Rose o' Paradise

Peg Grandoken

Movie 1918

Double Cross Roads

Mrs. Carlyle

Movie 1930

Twin Beds

Ma Dolan

Movie 1929

Old Wives for New

Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)

Movie 1918

One Wild Week

Mrs. Dorn

Movie 1921

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

Mrs. Dean

Movie 1920

Voices of the City

Mrs. Rodman

Movie 1921

Havoc

Mrs. Chappel

Movie 1925

Three Week Ends

Ma O'Brien

Movie 1928

A Double-Dyed Deceiver

Senora Urique

Movie 1920

Learning to Love

Aunt Penelope

Movie 1925

A Little Princess

(uncredited)

Movie 1917

Naughty But Nice

Mrs. Altewood

Movie 1927

Say! Young Fellow

A Sweet Spinster

Movie 1918

Bound in Morocco

Ysail's Mother

Movie 1918

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

Teddy's Mother

Movie 1919

Tom Sawyer

Aunt Polly

Movie 1917

Oliver Twist

Mrs. Brownlow

Movie 1916

Heart Trouble

Movie 1928

My American Wife

Donna Isabella LaTassa

Movie 1922

Richelieu

The Queen

Movie 1914

Experimental Marriage

Mrs. Ercoll

Movie 1919

American Beauty

Madame O'Riley

Movie 1927

Secret Service

Mrs. Varney

Movie 1919

The Crystal Cup

Mrs. Carteret

Movie 1927

Up the River

Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)

Movie 1930

The Only Road

Clara Hawkins

Movie 1918

The Girl at Home

Mary Dexter

Movie 1917

Happiness Ahead

Mrs. Randall

Movie 1928

Everywoman

Truth

Movie 1919

The Shepherd of the Hills

Aunt Mollie

Movie 1928

Dangerous Curve Ahead

Mrs. Mabee

Movie 1921

The Girl I Loved

Mother Middleton

Movie 1923

The Shadow of the East

Aunt Caroline

Movie 1924

The Breaking Point

Lucy Livingstone

Movie 1924

Fires of Faith

Mrs. Booth

Movie 1919

The Little Yellow House

Grandmother Pentland

Movie 1928

On the Level

Joe Blanchard's Mother

Movie 1917

The Crystal Gazer

Mrs. Mannering

Movie 1917

A School for Husbands

Mrs. Manners

Movie 1917