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Edythe Chapman is a Actor American born on 7 october 1863 at Rochester (USA)
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. The play was a romantic drama of early Rome which was supported by a cast of approximately 100 people.
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). The film starred Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall. Chapman was praised by reviewers for her performance.
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 and was interred at the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, USA. She was 85 years old.
Au cinéma, elle apparaît pour la première fois dans Richelieu d'Allan Dwan (avec Murdock MacQuarrie dans le rôle-titre), sorti en 1914. Ce film muet est également le premier aux côtés de son mari, qu'elle retrouvera dans vingt-trois autres films, dont six réalisations de Cecil B. DeMille (comme Le Réquisitoire et Le Détour, tous deux avec Leatrice Joy et sortis en 1922, ou encore Les Dix Commandements, version de 1923, avec Theodore Roberts personnifiant Moïse).
Outre Cecil B. DeMille (huit films en tout) et Allan Dwan (cinq films au total), Edythe Chapman tourne notamment sous la direction de William C. de Mille (frère du premier ; six films, dont The Idle Rich en 1929 — dernier du couple Neill —, avec Conrad Nagel et Bessie Love), William Desmond Taylor (cinq films, dont Tom Sawyer en 1917, avec Jack Pickford dans le rôle-titre), et Sam Wood (quatre films, dont Le Droit d'aimer en 1922, avec Gloria Swanson et Rudolph Valentino).
Au total, l'actrice contribue à cent-vingt films américains, dont seuls les sept derniers sont parlants. Parmi ses quatre ultimes, sortis en 1930, citons Up the River (avec Spencer Tracy et Claire Luce) de John Ford — qu'elle avait déjà croisé en 1925 sur Sa nièce de Paris, avec J. Farrell MacDonald et Otis Harlan —, ainsi que Take the Heir (avec Edward Everett Horton et Dorothy Devore) de Lloyd Ingraham.Edythe Chapman se retire de l'écran peu avant la mort en 1931 de son époux (qui était né en 1860), dont elle reste veuve jusqu'à son propre décès survenu en 1948. Elle est inhumée dans le cimetière de Bonaventure, à Savannah en Géorgie.
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Edythe Chapman
Nationality USA
Birth 7 october 1863 at Rochester (USA)
Death 15 october 1948 (at 85 years) at Glendale (USA)
Birth 7 october 1863 at Rochester (USA)
Death 15 october 1948 (at 85 years) at Glendale (USA)
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). The film starred Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall. Chapman was praised by reviewers for her performance.
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 and was interred at the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, USA. She was 85 years old.
Biography
Edythe Chapman débute au théâtre en 1892 et rejoint la troupe (qui se produira entre autres à Broadway en décembre 1906) de l'acteur James Neill en 1897, année où elle l'épouse.Au cinéma, elle apparaît pour la première fois dans Richelieu d'Allan Dwan (avec Murdock MacQuarrie dans le rôle-titre), sorti en 1914. Ce film muet est également le premier aux côtés de son mari, qu'elle retrouvera dans vingt-trois autres films, dont six réalisations de Cecil B. DeMille (comme Le Réquisitoire et Le Détour, tous deux avec Leatrice Joy et sortis en 1922, ou encore Les Dix Commandements, version de 1923, avec Theodore Roberts personnifiant Moïse).
Outre Cecil B. DeMille (huit films en tout) et Allan Dwan (cinq films au total), Edythe Chapman tourne notamment sous la direction de William C. de Mille (frère du premier ; six films, dont The Idle Rich en 1929 — dernier du couple Neill —, avec Conrad Nagel et Bessie Love), William Desmond Taylor (cinq films, dont Tom Sawyer en 1917, avec Jack Pickford dans le rôle-titre), et Sam Wood (quatre films, dont Le Droit d'aimer en 1922, avec Gloria Swanson et Rudolph Valentino).
Au total, l'actrice contribue à cent-vingt films américains, dont seuls les sept derniers sont parlants. Parmi ses quatre ultimes, sortis en 1930, citons Up the River (avec Spencer Tracy et Claire Luce) de John Ford — qu'elle avait déjà croisé en 1925 sur Sa nièce de Paris, avec J. Farrell MacDonald et Otis Harlan —, ainsi que Take the Heir (avec Edward Everett Horton et Dorothy Devore) de Lloyd Ingraham.Edythe Chapman se retire de l'écran peu avant la mort en 1931 de son époux (qui était né en 1860), dont elle reste veuve jusqu'à son propre décès survenu en 1948. Elle est inhumée dans le cimetière de Bonaventure, à Savannah en Géorgie.
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Filmography of Edythe Chapman (78 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Up the River | Actress | Mrs. Jordan (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Double Cross Roads | Actress | Mrs. Carlyle |
| 1930 | Man Trouble | Actress | Aunt Maggie |
| 1929 | Navy Blues | Actress | Mrs. Brown |
| 1929 | Synthetic Sin | Actress | Mrs. Fairfax |
| 1929 | The Idle Rich | Actress | Mrs. Alice Thayer |
| 1928 | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Actress | Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited) |
| 1928 | Three Week Ends | Actress | Ma O'Brien |
| 1928 | Happiness Ahead | Actress | Mrs. Randall |
| 1927 | The King of Kings | Actress | |
| 1927 | Naughty But Nice | Actress | Mrs. Altewood |
| 1927 | American Beauty | Actress | Madame O'Riley |
| 1926 | The Boob | Actress | The Old Lady (uncredited) |
| 1926 | Three Faces East | Actress | Mrs. Bennett |
| 1926 | The Runaway | Actress | Mrs. Murrell |
| 1925 | Daddy's Gone A-Hunting | Actress | Mrs. Greenough |
| 1925 | Lazybones | Actress | Mrs. Tuttle |
| 1925 | Lightnin' | Actress | Mrs. Jones |
| 1925 | Soul Mates | Actress | Tancred's mother |
| 1925 | Destruction! | Actress | |
| 1925 | In the Name of Love | Actress | Mother Melnotte |
| 1924 | Broken Barriers | Actress | Beulah Reynolds |
| 1924 | The Shadow of the East | Actress | Aunt Caroline |
| 1924 | Daughters of Pleasure | Actress | Mrs. Hadley |
| 1924 | Worldly Goods | Actress | Mrs. Lawson |
| 1924 | The Breaking Point | Actress | Lucy Livingstone |
| 1923 | The Ten Commandments | Actress | Mrs. Martha McTavish |
| 1923 | Hollywood | Actress | Edythe Chapman |
| 1923 | The Girl I Loved | Actress | Mother Middleton |
| 1922 | Beyond the Rocks | Actress | Lady Bracondale |
| 1922 | Her Husband’s Trademark | Actress | Mother Berkeley |
| 1922 | Manslaughter | Actress | Adeline Bennett |
| 1922 | My American Wife | Actress | Donna Isabella LaTassa |
| 1922 | Saturday Night | Actress | Mrs. Prentiss |
| 1922 | North of the Rio Grande | Actress | Belle Hannon |
| 1922 | A Tailor-Made Man | Actress | Mrs. Nathan |
| 1922 | The Sleepwalker | Actress | Sister Ursula |
| 1921 | Bits of Life | Actress | |
| 1921 | A Tale of Two Worlds | Actress | Mrs. Newcomb, mother of Robert |
| 1921 | Voices of the City | Actress | Mrs. Rodman |
| 1921 | Dangerous Curve Ahead | Actress | Mrs. Mabee |
| 1921 | One Wild Week | Actress | Mrs. Dorn |
| 1921 | Alias Ladyfingers | Actress | Rachel Stetherill |
| 1920 | The County Fair | Actress | Aunt Abigail Prue |
| 1920 | Huckleberry Finn | Actress | Aunt Polly |
| 1919 | The Knickerbocker Buckaroo | Actress | Teddy's Mother |
| 1919 | Secret Service | Actress | Mrs. Varney |
| 1919 | Flame of the Desert | Actress | Lady Snowden |
| 1919 | An Innocent Adventuress | Actress | Aunt Heppy |
| 1919 | Everywoman | Actress | Truth |
| 1918 | Bound in Morocco | Actress | Ysail's Mother |
| 1918 | Huck and Tom | Actress | Aunt Polly |
| 1918 | Old Wives for New | Actress | Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited) |
| 1918 | Say! Young Fellow | Actress | A Sweet Spinster |
| 1918 | The Whispering Chorus | Actress | John Tremble's mother |
| 1918 | The Only Road | Actress | Clara Hawkins |
| 1918 | Sandy | Actress | Mrs. Hollis |
| 1918 | The Spirit of '17 | Actress | Mrs. Glidden |
| 1917 | The Little American | Actress | Mrs. von Austreim |
| 1917 | A Little Princess | Actress | (uncredited) |
| 1917 | Tom Sawyer | Actress | Aunt Polly |
| 1917 | The Evil Eye | Actress | |
| 1917 | A Modern Musketeer | Actress | Mrs. Thacker |
| 1917 | On the Level | Actress | Joe Blanchard's Mother |
| 1917 | The Countess Charming | Actress | Mrs. Lovering |
| 1917 | A School for Husbands | Actress | Mrs. Manners |
| 1917 | The Crystal Gazer | Actress | Mrs. Mannering |
| 1917 | A Mormon Maid | Actress | Nancy Hogue |
| 1916 | Public Opinion | Actress | Mrs. Carson Morgan |
| 1916 | Oliver Twist | Actress | Mrs. Brownlow |
| 1916 | The Plow Girl | Actress | |
| 1916 | The Heir to the Hoorah | Actress | Mrs. Kent |
| 1916 | Anton the Terrible | Actress | Babushka |
| 1915 | The Foundling | Actress | |
| 1915 | The Golden Chance | Actress | Mrs. Hillary |
| 1915 | The Pretty Sister of Jose | Actress | The Mother |
| 1914 | Richelieu | Actress | The Queen |
| 1912 | The County Fair | Actress |