People
Edythe Chapman
- Name: Edythe Chapman
- Birthday: 1863-10-07
- Also known as: Edith van Renssaleer
- Place of birth: Rochester, New York, USA
- Popularity: 1.298
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... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Up the River as Mrs. Jordan (uncredited) | 1930-10-10 |
| Man Trouble as Aunt Maggie | 1930-08-24 |
| Double Cross Roads as Mrs. Carlyle | 1930-04-20 |
| Take the Heir as Lady Tweedham | 1930-01-15 |
| Navy Blues as Mrs. Brown | 1929-12-20 |
| Twin Beds as Ma Dolan | 1929-07-14 |
| The Idle Rich as Mrs. Alice Thayer | 1929-06-15 |
| Synthetic Sin as Mrs. Fairfax | 1929-01-06 |
| Three Week Ends as Ma O'Brien | 1928-12-08 |
| Heart Trouble | 1928-10-01 |
| Happiness Ahead as Mrs. Randall | 1928-06-24 |
| The Little Yellow House as Grandmother Pentland | 1928-04-18 |
| Love Hungry as Ma Robinson | 1928-04-08 |
| The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg as Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited) | 1928-01-30 |
| The Shepherd of the Hills as Aunt Mollie | 1928-01-01 |
| The Crystal Cup as Mrs. Carteret | 1927-10-16 |
| American Beauty as Madame O'Riley | 1927-10-09 |
| Naughty But Nice as Mrs. Altewood | 1927-06-25 |
| One Minute to Play as Mrs. Wade | 1926-09-12 |
| The Boob as The Old Lady (uncredited) | 1926-05-17 |
| The Runaway as Mrs. Murrell | 1926-04-04 |
| Three Faces East as Mrs. Bennett | 1926-02-03 |
| Lazybones as Mrs. Tuttle | 1925-11-06 |
| Havoc as Mrs. Chappel | 1925-09-27 |
| The Pride of the Force as Mother Moore | 1925-09-11 |
| Lightnin' as Mrs. Jones | 1925-08-23 |
| In the Name of Love as Mother Melnotte | 1925-08-10 |
| Learning to Love as Aunt Penelope | 1925-01-25 |
| Broken Barriers as Beulah Reynolds | 1924-08-18 |
| Daughters of Pleasure as Mrs. Hadley | 1924-06-15 |
| The Breaking Point as Lucy Livingstone | 1924-05-04 |
| The Shadow of the East as Aunt Caroline | 1924-01-27 |
| Chastity as Mrs. Harris | 1923-12-31 |
| The Ten Commandments as Mrs. Martha McTavish | 1923-11-23 |
| Hollywood as Edythe Chapman | 1923-08-19 |
| The Girl I Loved as Mother Middleton | 1923-02-15 |
| My American Wife as Donna Isabella LaTassa | 1922-12-31 |
| Manslaughter as Adeline Bennett | 1922-09-24 |
| A Tailor-Made Man as Mrs. Nathan | 1922-08-05 |
| North of the Rio Grande as Belle Hannon | 1922-05-14 |
| Beyond the Rocks as Lady Bracondale | 1922-05-07 |
| Her Husband’s Trademark as Mother Berkeley | 1922-02-01 |
| Saturday Night as Mrs. Prentiss | 1922-01-29 |
| Voices of the City as Mrs. Rodman | 1921-12-01 |
| Alias Ladyfingers as Rachel Stetherill | 1921-10-30 |
| Dangerous Curve Ahead as Mrs. Mabee | 1921-10-02 |
| Bits of Life | 1921-09-26 |
| One Wild Week as Mrs. Dorn | 1921-04-08 |
| Bunty Pulls the Strings as Eelen Dunlap | 1921-01-02 |
| The County Fair as Aunt Abigail Prue | 1920-09-05 |
| A Double-Dyed Deceiver as Senora Urique | 1920-06-22 |
| Huckleberry Finn as Aunt Polly | 1920-02-29 |
| The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come as Mrs. Dean | 1920-02-01 |
| Pinto as Mrs. Audry | 1920-01-10 |
| Everywoman as Truth | 1919-12-30 |
| Flame of the Desert as Lady Snowden | 1919-10-26 |
| Fires of Faith as Mrs. Booth | 1919-08-03 |
| Secret Service as Mrs. Varney | 1919-06-15 |
| The Knickerbocker Buckaroo as Teddy's Mother | 1919-05-25 |
| Experimental Marriage as Mrs. Ercoll | 1919-03-10 |
| Alias Mike Moran as Ma Young | 1919-03-02 |
| The Winning Girl as Second Mrs. Milligan | 1919-02-23 |
| Borrowed Clothes as Mary's Mother | 1918-11-04 |
| Unexpected Places as Mrs. Penfield | 1918-09-30 |
| Bound in Morocco as Ysail's Mother | 1918-07-28 |
| Say! Young Fellow as A Sweet Spinster | 1918-06-16 |
| The Only Road as Clara Hawkins | 1918-06-03 |
| Old Wives for New as Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited) | 1918-05-18 |
| Rose o' Paradise as Peg Grandoken | 1918-05-13 |
| The Whispering Chorus as John Tremble's mother | 1918-03-28 |
| Huck and Tom as Aunt Polly | 1918-03-04 |
| The Spirit of '17 as Mrs. Glidden | 1918-01-26 |
| A Modern Musketeer as Mrs. Thacker | 1917-12-30 |
| Tom Sawyer as Aunt Polly | 1917-12-10 |
| A Little Princess as (uncredited) | 1917-11-05 |
| The Countess Charming as Mrs. Lovering | 1917-09-16 |
| The Little American as Mrs. von Austreim | 1917-07-12 |
| The Girl at Home as Mary Dexter | 1917-04-26 |
| A Mormon Maid as Nancy Hogue | 1917-04-21 |
| The Evil Eye | 1917-01-04 |
| Oliver Twist as Mrs. Brownlow | 1916-12-10 |
| The Selfish Woman as Mrs. Hale | 1916-07-09 |
| The Golden Chance as Mrs. Hillary | 1915-12-30 |
| The Pretty Sister of Jose as The Mother | 1915-05-31 |
| Richelieu as The Queen | 1914-09-26 |
