Sylvia Ashton
Sylvia Ashton (January 26, 1880 – November 17, 1940) was an American film actress of the silent film era.
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Born | Denver, Colorado, United States | January 26, 1880
Died | November 17, 1940 60) Los Angeles, California, United States | (aged
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1912–1929 |
Ashton was born in Denver, Colorado. She bore a heavyset resemblance to Jane Darwell and like Darwell was playing mother and grandmother roles, though more famously than Darwell in the silents, while still in her 30s and 40s.[1] For years she was a regular member of Cecil B. DeMille's troupe of character actors. She appeared in 134 films between 1912 and 1929.[2] She retired from movies almost immediately at the dawn of sound, one of her later films being the part-sound film The Barker (1928). She died in Los Angeles, California.
Sylvia Ashton, at right with Betty Compson and below with Walter Hiers and Leatrice Joy. Motion Picture Magazine, August 1922
Partial filmography
- The Nick of Time Baby (1916)
- Matching Dreams (1916)
- Viviana (1916)
- A Sanitarium Scramble (1916)
- Haystacks and Steeples (1916)
- Whose Baby? (1917)
- Old Wives for New (1918)
- We Can't Have Everything (1918)
- A Pair of Silk Stockings (1918)
- The Goat (1918)
- Fuss and Feathers (1918)
- Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
- Peggy Does Her Darndest (1919)
- For Better, for Worse (1919)
- Men, Women, and Money (1919)
- Jack Straw (1920)
- Mrs. Temple's Telegram (1920)
- Sweet Lavender (1920)
- Jenny Be Good (1920)
- Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
- Thou Art the Man (1920)
- The Soul of Youth (1920)
- Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1920)
- Sham (1921)
- The Snob (1921)
- Saturday Night (1922)
- For the Defense (1922)
- Our Leading Citizen (1922)
- While Satan Sleeps (1922)
- Manslaughter (1922)
- Youth to Youth (1922)
- The White Flower (1923)
- Desire (1923)
- Greed (1924)
- Cheating Cheaters (1927)
- Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath (1928)
- The Barker (1928)
- The Head Man (1928)
- The Crash (1928)
- Bachelor's Paradise (1928)
- Queen Kelly (1928)
- The Leopard Lady (1928)
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References
- "Sylvia Ashton, VGuide". Ovguide.com. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- Sylvia Ashton - IMDb
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