Edythe Chapman

Personal Info

Birthday

October 7, 1863

Day of Death

1948-10-15

(85 years old)

Place of Birth

Rochester, New York, USA

Also Known As

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.

Known For

Hollywood

Alias Ladyfingers

The Ten Commandments

Manslaughter

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

Navy Blues

Bound in Morocco

A Mormon Maid

Filmography

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