Edythe Chapman
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 7, 1863, Rochester, New York, USA
- Died
- October 15, 1948
- Movies
- 117
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).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 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. Alice Thayer |
| 1929 | Synthetic Sin | Mrs. Fairfax |
| 1928 | Three Week Ends | Ma O'Brien |
| 1928 | Sally's Shoulders | Emily |
| 1928 | 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 Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited) |
| 1928 | The Shepherd of the Hills | Aunt Mollie |
| 1927 | Man Crazy | Grandmother Janeway |
| 1927 | The Crystal Cup | Mrs. Carteret |
| 1927 | American Beauty | Madame O'Riley |
| 1927 | Naughty But Nice | Mrs. Altewood |
| 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 | Lazybones | Mrs. Tuttle |
| 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 | Soul Mates | Tancred's mother |
| 1925 | Learning to Love | Aunt Penelope |
| 1924 | Worldly Goods | Mrs. Lawson |
| 1924 | Broken Barriers | Beulah Reynolds |
| 1924 | The Wise Virgin | Mrs. John Farrington |
| 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 | Hollywood | Edythe Chapman |
| 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 | The Sleep Walker | 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 | Bits of Life | |
| 1921 | A Wife's Awakening | Mrs. Kelcey |
| 1921 | One Wild Week | Mrs. Dorn |
| 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 | Huckleberry Finn | Aunt Polly |
| 1920 | The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come | Mrs. Dean |
| 1920 | Pinto | Mrs. Audry |
| 1919 | Everywoman | Truth |
| 1919 | Flame of the Desert | Lady Snowden |
| 1919 | Deliverance | Sarah Fuller |
| 1919 | Fires of Faith | Mrs. Booth |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | A Little Princess | (uncredited) |
| 1917 | The 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 |
| 1915 | The Golden Chance | Mrs. Hillary |
| 1915 | The Pretty Sister of Jose | The Mother |
| 1914 | Richelieu | The Queen |
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