Birthday
1863/10/07
Day of death
1948/10/15 (85 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
Also know as
Edith van Renssaleer
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' (...Read more
(1930) Take the Heir
as Lady Tweedham
(1923) The Ten Commandments
as Mrs. Martha McTavish
(1921) Bunty Pulls the Strings
as Eelen Dunlap
(1923) Hollywood
as Edythe Chapman
(1918) Borrowed Clothes
as Mary's Mother
(1922) North of the Rio Grande
as Belle Hannon
(1921) Bits of Life
as ---
(1917) A Mormon Maid
as Nancy Hogue
(1925) In the Name of Love
as Mother Melnotte
(1924) Broken Barriers
as Beulah Reynolds
(1918) Huck and Tom
as Aunt Polly
(1921) Alias Ladyfingers
as Rachel Stetherill
(1922) A Tailor-Made Man
as Mrs. Nathan
(1917) The Countess Charming
as Mrs. Lovering
(1916) The Selfish Woman
as Mrs. Hale
(1917) The Evil Eye
as ---
(1919) Alias Mike Moran
as Ma Young
(1917) A Modern Musketeer
as Mrs. Thacker
(1918) The Whispering Chorus
as John Tremble's mother
(1928) Love Hungry
as Ma Robinson
(1922) Manslaughter
as Adeline Bennett
(1926) One Minute to Play
as Mrs. Wade
(1915) The Pretty Sister of Jose
as The Mother
(1925) The Pride of the Force
as Mother Moore
(1929) The Idle Rich
as Mrs. Alice Thayer
(1929) Navy Blues
as Mrs. Brown
(1926) The Boob
as The Old Lady (uncredited)
(1926) Three Faces East
as Mrs. Bennett
(1919) Flame of the Desert
as Lady Snowden
(1926) The Runaway
as Mrs. Murrell
(1918) Unexpected Places
as Mrs. Penfield
(1918) The Spirit of '17
as Mrs. Glidden
(1922) Saturday Night
as Mrs. Prentiss
(1920) Pinto
as Mrs. Audry
(1928) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
as Young Karl's Nanny (uncredited)
(1919) The Winning Girl
as Second Mrs. Milligan
(1930) Man Trouble
as Aunt Maggie
(1925) Lazybones
as Mrs. Tuttle
(1922) Her Husband’s Trademark
as Mother Berkeley
(1929) Synthetic Sin
as Mrs. Fairfax
(1925) Lightnin'
as Mrs. Jones
(1920) The County Fair
as Aunt Abigail Prue
(1924) Daughters of Pleasure
as Mrs. Hadley
(1922) Beyond the Rocks
as Lady Bracondale
(1923) Chastity
as Mrs. Harris
(1920) Huckleberry Finn
as Aunt Polly
(1915) The Golden Chance
as Mrs. Hillary
(1918) Rose o' Paradise
as Peg Grandoken
(1930) Double Cross Roads
as Mrs. Carlyle
(1929) Twin Beds
as Ma Dolan
(1918) Old Wives for New
as Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)
(1921) One Wild Week
as Mrs. Dorn
(1920) The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
as Mrs. Dean
(1921) Voices of the City
as Mrs. Rodman
(1925) Havoc
as Mrs. Chappel
(1928) Three Week Ends
as Ma O'Brien
(1920) A Double-Dyed Deceiver
as Senora Urique
(1925) Learning to Love
as Aunt Penelope
(1917) The Little American
as Mrs. von Austreim
(1917) A Little Princess
as (uncredited)
(1927) Naughty But Nice
as Mrs. Altewood
(1918) Say! Young Fellow
as A Sweet Spinster
(1918) Bound in Morocco
as Ysail's Mother
(1919) The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
as Teddy's Mother
(1917) Tom Sawyer
as Aunt Polly
(1916) Oliver Twist
as Mrs. Brownlow
(1928) Heart Trouble
as ---
(1922) My American Wife
as Donna Isabella LaTassa
(1914) Richelieu
as The Queen
(1919) Experimental Marriage
as Mrs. Ercoll
(1927) American Beauty
as Madame O'Riley
(1919) Secret Service
as Mrs. Varney
(1927) The Crystal Cup
as Mrs. Carteret
(1930) Up the River
as Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)
(1918) The Only Road
as Clara Hawkins
(1917) The Girl at Home
as Mary Dexter
(1928) Happiness Ahead
as Mrs. Randall
(1919) Everywoman
as Truth
(1928) The Shepherd of the Hills
as Aunt Mollie
(1921) Dangerous Curve Ahead
as Mrs. Mabee
(1923) The Girl I Loved
as Mother Middleton
(1924) The Shadow of the East
as Aunt Caroline
(1924) The Breaking Point
as Lucy Livingstone
(1919) Fires of Faith
as Mrs. Booth
(1928) The Little Yellow House
as Grandmother Pentland
(1917) On the Level
as Joe Blanchard's Mother
(1917) The Crystal Gazer
as Mrs. Mannering
(1917) A School for Husbands
as Mrs. Manners