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Personal Info

Known Credits 89

Gender Female

Birthdate 1863-10-07 (162 Y.O)

Place Of Birth Rochester, New York, USA

Also Known For Edith van Renssaleer

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' ( ...

Known For

Up the River

Man Trouble

Double Cross Roads

Take the Heir

Navy Blues

Acting

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 -- Heart Trouble |

1928 -- Happiness Ahead | Mrs. Randall

1928 -- The Little Yellow House | Grandmother Pentland

1928 -- Love Hungry | Ma Robinson

1928 -- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)

1928 -- The Shepherd of the Hills | Aunt Mollie

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 -- Learning to Love | Aunt Penelope

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 -- Hollywood | Edythe Chapman

1923 -- The Girl I Loved | Mother Middleton

1922 -- My American Wife | Donna Isabella LaTassa

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 -- 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 -- One Wild Week | Mrs. Dorn

1921 -- Bunty Pulls the Strings | Eelen Dunlap

1920 -- The County Fair | Aunt Abigail Prue

1920 -- A Double-Dyed Deceiver | Senora Urique

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 -- Fires of Faith | Mrs. Booth

1919 -- Secret Service | Mrs. Varney

1919 -- The Knickerbocker Buckaroo | Teddy's Mother

1919 -- Experimental Marriage | Mrs. Ercoll

1919 -- Alias Mike Moran | Ma Young

1919 -- The Winning Girl | Second Mrs. Milligan

1918 -- Borrowed Clothes | Mary's Mother

1918 -- Unexpected Places | Mrs. Penfield

1918 -- Bound in Morocco | Ysail's Mother

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 -- 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 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 Selfish Woman | Mrs. Hale

1915 -- The Golden Chance | Mrs. Hillary

1915 -- The Pretty Sister of Jose | The Mother

1914 -- Richelieu | The Queen