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Edythe Chapman (1863–1948)

Actress

Edythe Chapman was born in Rochester, New York on October 8, 1863. A stage actress who came upon movies late in life, she nonetheless made 97 motion pictures. She was 51 years old when she played in _Richelieu (1914)_. Edythe was one of the busier actresses in the early silent era appearing in as many as nine films a year... See full bio »

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in Rochester, New York, USA

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(age 85) in Glendale, California, USA
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1930 Up the River
Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)
 
1930 Man Trouble
Aunt Maggie
 
1930 Double Cross Roads
Mrs. Carlyle
 
1930 Take the Heir
Lady Tweedham
 
1929 Navy Blues
Mrs. Brown
 
1929 Twin Beds
Ma Dolan
 
1929 The Idle Rich
Mrs. Thayer
 
1929 Synthetic Sin
Mrs. Fairfax
 
1928 Three Weekends
Ma O'Brien
 
1928 Sally's Shoulders
Emily
 
1928/I Heart Trouble
 
1928 Happiness Ahead
Mrs. Randall
 
1928 The Little Yellow House
Grandmother Pentland
 
1928 Love Hungry
Ma Robinson
 
1928 The Count of Ten
Mother McKinney
 
1928 The Shepherd of the Hills
Aunt Mollie
 
1927 Man Crazy
Grandmother Janeway
 
1927 The Crystal Cup
Mrs. Carteret
 
1927 The American Beauty
Madame O'Riley
 
1927 The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)
 
1927 Naughty But Nice
Mrs. Altewood
 
1927 The King of Kings
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
 
1926 Faithful Wives
The mother
 
1926 One Minute to Play
Mrs. Wade
 
1926 The Boob
The Old Lady (uncredited)
 
1926 The Runaway
Mrs. Murrell
 
1926 Three Faces East
Mrs. Bennett
 
1925 Soul Mates
Tancred's Mother
 
1925 Lazybones
Mrs. Tuttle
 
1925 Classified
'Maw' Comet
 
1925 Havoc
Mrs. Chappel
 
1925 The Pride of the Force
Mother Moore
 
1925 Lightnin'
Mrs. Jones
 
1925 In the Name of Love
Mother Melnotte
 
1925 Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Mrs. Greenough
 
1925 Learning to Love
Aunt Penelope
 
1924 Worldly Goods
Mrs. Lawson
 
1924 The Wise Virgin
Mrs. John Farrington
 
1924 Broken Barriers
Beulah Reynolds
 
1924 Daughters of Pleasure
Mrs. Hadley
 
1924 The Breaking Point
Lucy Livingstone
 
1924 The Shadow of the East
Aunt Caroline
 
1923 Chastity
Mrs. Harris
 
1923 The Ten Commandments
Mrs. Martha McTavish
 
1923 The Miracle Makers
Mrs. Martha Mansfield
 
1923 Divorce
Mrs. George Reed
 
1923 The Girl I Loved
Mother Middleton
 
1922 My American Wife
Donna Isabella LaTassa
 
1922 Youth to Youth
Mrs. Cora Knittson
 
1922 Manslaughter
Adeline Bennett
 
1922 A Tailor-Made Man
Mrs. Nathan
 
1922 North of the Rio Grande
Belle Hannon
 
1922 Beyond the Rocks
Lady Bracondale
 
1922 Sleepwalker
Sister Ursula
 
1922 Her Husband's Trademark
Mother Berkeley
 
1922 Saturday Night
Mrs. Prentiss
 
1921 Voices of the City
Mrs. Rodman
 
1921 Alias Ladyfingers
Rachel Stetherill
 
1921 Dangerous Curve Ahead
Mrs. Mabee
 
1921 A Wife's Awakening
Mrs. Kelcey
 
1921 One Wild Week
Mrs. Dorn
 
1921 Bits of Life
 
1921 A Tale of Two Worlds
Mrs. Newcombe
 
1921 Bunty Pulls the Strings
Eelen Dunlap
 
1920 Just Out of College
Mrs. Pickering
 
1920 The County Fair
Aunt Abigail Prue
 
1920 A Double-Dyed Deceiver
Senora Urique
 
1920 Out of the Storm
Lady Bridgeminster
 
1920 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Mrs. Dean
 
1920 Huckleberry Finn
Aunt Polly
 
1920 Pinto
Mrs. Audry
 
1919 Everywoman
Truth
 
1919 Flame of the Desert
Lady Snowden
 
1919 Secret Service
Mrs. Varney
 
1919 An Innocent Adventuress
Aunt Heppy
 
1919 The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
Teddy's Mother
 
1919 The Home Town Girl
Mrs. Fanshawe
 
1919 Fires of Faith
Mrs. Booth
 
1919 Experimental Marriage
Mrs. Ercoll
 
1919 Alias Mike Moran
Ma Young
 
1919 The Winning Girl
Second Mrs. Milligan
 
1919 You Never Saw Such a Girl
Mrs. Burgess
 
1919/I Faith
Martha Owen
 
1919 Peg o' My Heart
 
1918 The Gypsy Trail
Grandma
 
1918 Borrowed Clothes
Mary's Mother
 
1918 Unexpected Places
Mrs. Penfield
 
1918 Bound in Morocco
Ysail's mother
 
1918 Sandy
Mrs. Hollis
 
1918 Say! Young Fellow
A Sweet Spinster
 
1918 The Only Road
Clara Hawkins
 
1918 Old Wives for New
Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)
 
1918 Rose o' Paradise
Peg Grandoken
 
1918 His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Older Mrs. Breede
 
1918 The Whispering Chorus
John Tremble's mother
 
1918 Huck and Tom
Aunt Polly
 
1918 The Spirit of '17
Mrs. Glidden
 
1917 A Modern Musketeer
Mrs. Thacker
 
1917 Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly
 
1917 The Little Princess (uncredited)
 
1917 Ghost House
Mrs. Rawson
 
1917 The Countess Charming
Mrs. Lovering
 
1917 On the Level
Joe Blanchard's Mother
 
1917 The Crystal Gazer
Mrs. Mannering
 
1917 The Little American
Mrs. von Austreim
 
1917 The Girl at Home
Mary Dexter
 
1917 A Mormon Maid
Nancy Hogue
 
1917 A School for Husbands
Mrs. Manners
 
1917 The Evil Eye
 
1916 Oliver Twist
Mrs. Brownlow
 
1916 The Plow Girl
Lady Brentwood
 
1916 The Heir to the Hoorah
Mrs. Kent
 
1916 Anton the Terrible
Babushka (Anton's mother)
 
1916 Public Opinion
Mrs. Carson Morgan
 
1916 The Selfish Woman
Mrs. Hale (as Mrs. James Neill)
 
1915/I The Golden Chance
Mrs. Hillary
 
1915 The Pretty Sister of Jose
Their Mother
 
1915 The Foundling (scenes deleted)
 
1914 Richelieu
The Queen
 
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1923 Hollywood
Herself
 

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Personal Details

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Stage Actress

Alternate Names:

Edith Chapman | Mrs. James Neill

Height:

5' 1" (1.55 m)
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Star Sign:

Libra