Edythe Chapman

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

162

Movies

117

Born: October 7, 1863 – October 15, 1948
From: Rochester, New York, USA

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.

Works

117 films

Three Week Ends

19287.0

Public Opinion

1916

The Ten Commandments

19236.5

The Boob

19266.0

Sandy

1918

My American Wife

192210.0

Unexpected Places

19189.0

An Innocent Adventuress

19199.0

Up the River

19305.8

Faith

19197.0

Deliverance

19197.0

Her Husband’s Trademark

192210.0

Chastity

19239.0

The Idle Rich

19296.6

Divorce

19239.0

Twin Beds

192910.0

In the Name of Love

192510.0

Youth to Youth

19227.0

Alias Ladyfingers

19217.0

The Sleep Walker

19228.0

Out of the Storm

19209.0

The Little American

19176.3

The Home Town Girl

191910.0

Hollywood

19239.0

The Count of Ten

19287.0

Bound in Morocco

1918

The Plow Girl

1916

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

19197.0

His Majesty, Bunker Bean

1918

Old Wives for New

19186.4

The Wise Virgin

19247.0

Bits of Life

192110.0

Huck and Tom

1918

Manslaughter

19225.5

Alias Mike Moran

1919

A Mormon Maid

19175.0

Naughty But Nice

19279.0

Man Crazy

19277.0

Saturday Night

19225.9

Anton the Terrible

1916

Beyond the Rocks

19226.0

Sally's Shoulders

192810.0

The Countess Charming

1917

Richelieu

1914

Love Hungry

19288.0

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

19287.2

A Wife's Awakening

19217.0

Happiness Ahead

19288.0

Huckleberry Finn

19206.8

The Pretty Sister of Jose

1915

The Ghost House

1917

The Breaking Point

1924

Tom Sawyer

19175.0

You Never Saw Such a Girl

19197.0

Flame of the Desert

19197.0

Navy Blues

19297.0

North of the Rio Grande

192210.0

The Girl at Home

1917

The Golden Chance

19156.6

Take the Heir

193010.0

The Heir to the Hoorah

1916

A Little Princess

19175.2

American Beauty

19273.0

Secret Service

19198.0

The Shadow of the East

19249.0

Havoc

19257.0

Just Out of College

192010.0

Lazybones

19256.8

Everywoman

19198.0

A Tailor-Made Man

1922

The Whispering Chorus

19186.4

The Miracle Makers

192310.0

Double Cross Roads

19309.0

Soul Mates

19257.0

The Girl I Loved

19238.0

Oliver Twist

1916

Borrowed Clothes

1918

The Pride of the Force

19257.0

A Tale of Two Worlds

19216.3

Say! Young Fellow

1918

Broken Barriers

19243.7

Heart Trouble

19288.0

Lightnin'

19256.6

Man Trouble

19307.5

Worldly Goods

19247.0

Voices of the City

19217.0

One Minute to Play

19265.0

The Shepherd of the Hills

19287.0

Daughters of Pleasure

19248.0

A Modern Musketeer

19175.5

The Winning Girl

19199.0

The Runaway

192610.0

Synthetic Sin

192910.0

The County Fair

19205.3

The Only Road

1918

The Crystal Cup

19277.0

Learning to Love

19259.0

One Wild Week

19217.0

Experimental Marriage

19198.0

Bunty Pulls the Strings

19218.0

The Gypsy Trail

1918

The Selfish Woman

1916

Three Faces East

19268.0

The Spirit of '17

1918

Fires of Faith

191910.0

A Double-Dyed Deceiver

19209.0

The Evil Eye

1917

On the Level

1917

Dangerous Curve Ahead

19219.0

Pinto

19209.0

A School for Husbands

1917

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

192010.0

Faithful Wives

192610.0

The Crystal Gazer

19178.0

The Little Yellow House

19289.0

Peg o' My Heart

191910.0

Rose o' Paradise

1918