Edythe Chapman

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1863-10-07 (85 years old)

Deathday

1948-10-15

Place of Birth

Rochester, New York, USA

Edythe Chapman

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...

Acting

1930

Take the Heir

as Lady Tweedham

1923

The Ten Commandments

as Mrs. Martha McTavish

1921

1923

Hollywood

as Edythe Chapman

1918

Borrowed Clothes

as Mary's Mother

1922

1917

A Mormon Maid

as Nancy Hogue

1925

In the Name of Love

as Mother Melnotte

1924

Broken Barriers

as Beulah Reynolds

1918

Huck and Tom

as Aunt Polly

1921

Alias Ladyfingers

as Rachel Stetherill

1922

A Tailor-Made Man

as Mrs. Nathan

1917

The Countess Charming

as Mrs. Lovering

1916

The Selfish Woman

as Mrs. Hale

1919

Alias Mike Moran

as Ma Young

1917

A Modern Musketeer

as Mrs. Thacker

1918

The Whispering Chorus

as John Tremble's mother

1928

Love Hungry

as Ma Robinson

1922

Manslaughter

as Adeline Bennett

1926

One Minute to Play

as Mrs. Wade

1915

1925

The Pride of the Force

as Mother Moore

1929

The Idle Rich

as Mrs. Alice Thayer

1929

Navy Blues

as Mrs. Brown

1926

The Boob

as The Old Lady (uncredited)

1926

Three Faces East

as Mrs. Bennett

1919

Flame of the Desert

as Lady Snowden

1926

The Runaway

as Mrs. Murrell

1918

Unexpected Places

as Mrs. Penfield

1918

The Spirit of '17

as Mrs. Glidden

1922

Saturday Night

as Mrs. Prentiss

1920

Pinto

as Mrs. Audry

1928

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

as Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)

1919

The Winning Girl

as Second Mrs. Milligan

1930

Man Trouble

as Aunt Maggie

1925

Lazybones

as Mrs. Tuttle

1922

Her Husband’s Trademark

as Mother Berkeley

1929

Synthetic Sin

as Mrs. Fairfax

1925

Lightnin'

as Mrs. Jones

1920

The County Fair

as Aunt Abigail Prue

1924

Daughters of Pleasure

as Mrs. Hadley

1922

Beyond the Rocks

as Lady Bracondale

1923

Chastity

as Mrs. Harris

1920

Huckleberry Finn

as Aunt Polly

1915

The Golden Chance

as Mrs. Hillary

1918

Rose o' Paradise

as Peg Grandoken

1930

Double Cross Roads

as Mrs. Carlyle

1929

Twin Beds

as Ma Dolan

1918

Old Wives for New

as Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)

1921

One Wild Week

as Mrs. Dorn

1921

Voices of the City

as Mrs. Rodman

1925

Havoc

as Mrs. Chappel

1928

Three Week Ends

as Ma O'Brien

1920

A Double-Dyed Deceiver

as Senora Urique

1925

Learning to Love

as Aunt Penelope

1917

The Little American

as Mrs. von Austreim

1917

A Little Princess

as (uncredited)

1927

Naughty But Nice

as Mrs. Altewood

1918

Say! Young Fellow

as A Sweet Spinster

1918

Bound in Morocco

as Ysail's Mother

1919

1917

Tom Sawyer

as Aunt Polly

1916

Oliver Twist

as Mrs. Brownlow

1922

My American Wife

as Donna Isabella LaTassa

1914

Richelieu

as The Queen

1919

Experimental Marriage

as Mrs. Ercoll

1927

American Beauty

as Madame O'Riley

1919

Secret Service

as Mrs. Varney

1927

The Crystal Cup

as Mrs. Carteret

1930

Up the River

as Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)

1918

The Only Road

as Clara Hawkins

1917

The Girl at Home

as Mary Dexter

1928

Happiness Ahead

as Mrs. Randall

1919

Everywoman

as Truth

1928

1921

1923

The Girl I Loved

as Mother Middleton

1924

The Shadow of the East

as Aunt Caroline

1924

The Breaking Point

as Lucy Livingstone

1919

Fires of Faith

as Mrs. Booth

1928

The Little Yellow House

as Grandmother Pentland

1917

On the Level

as Joe Blanchard's Mother

1917

The Crystal Gazer

as Mrs. Mannering

1917

A School for Husbands

as Mrs. Manners

1926

Faithful Wives

as The Mother

1918

The Gypsy Trail

as Grandma

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