Mattie Edwards

Mattie Edwards (1866–1944) was an American actress who appeared in

While spending her childhood in the American frontier, Edwards was appointed a Deputy Marshal at the age of 16 for the town of Fort Smith, Arkansas.^[1] As a part of the fort's criminal court at the time, she assisted in the Dalton Gang's arrest.^[1] Her earliest theatre performances were appearances in P. G. Lowery's minstrel group beginning in 1887.^[2] The first film debut for Edwards was in the silent film era with Ben Turpin while he still worked out of a loft at Essanay Studios.^[3] She also starred as the leading chorus member for Williams and Walker Co. films, particularly in their 1903 production of In Dahomey.^[4][2] She was also highly noted in the 1911–1912 production of The Roundup by Klaw and Erlanger.^[2]

Edwards joined the

• The Candy Kid (1908)[10]
• The Virginian as Mrs. Henry^[1]
• Checkers as Aunt Deb^[1]
• As Ye Sow as Mrs. St. John^[1]
• The Round Up (1911) as Josephine^[1]
• Getting Her Rights (1915) as Marguerite Smith^[11]
• My Killarney Rose (1916) as Nora Donovan^[12]
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1918) as Mrs. Schultz^[13]
• Oh, Boy (1919)^[14] as Mrs. Carter^[15]
• Ladies Night (1923)^[16]
• Why The Bachelor? (1924)^[17]
• Seduction (1925)^[18]
• The Devil Within (1927)^[19]
• This World and the Next (1929) as Rosie^[3]
• The Bird of Flame (1930)^[20]

Filmography

• Zeb, Zack and the Zulus (1913)^[2]
• Mandy's Chicken Dinner (1914) as Aunt Mandy^[5]
• Sam and the Bully (1914) as Mattie^[21]
• Swami Sam (1914) as Mattie^[21]
• Coon Town Suffragettes (1914)^[22] as Mandy Jackson^[5]
• The Tale of a Chicken (1914)^[5]
• The Rise of the Johnsons (1914)^[5]
• He Said He Could Act (1914)^[23]
• He Was Bad (1914)^[24]
• Rastus Knew It Wasn't (1914) as Nita Nonenti^[5]
• Just A Note (1914)^[21]
• The Haunted Attic (1915)^[25]
• The Rakoon Hose Company (1915)^[26]
• It Happened on Washday (1915)^[27]
• The Undertaker's Daughter (1915)^[28]
• Black Art (1915)^[2]
• Father Said He'd Fix It (1915)^[29]
• In Zululand (1915) as Queen Cocoa^[5]
• A New Way To Win (1915)^[21]
• Under a Barrel (1916)^[2]
• Good Luck in Old Clothes (1918)^[30]
• Within Our Gates (1920) as Jasper Landry's wife^[31]
• The Brute (1920)^[31]
• Give Us the Night (1936)^[2] as Elena^[32]
• Champagne Waltz (1937)^[2]

Personal life

Edwards married Edward Settle and changed her personal name to Martha Mattie Settle. She died in 1944 at the age of 78.^[33]

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