Sylvia Ashton

Sylvia Ashton
Who's Who in the Film World, 1914
Born	(1880-01-26)26 January 1880 Denver, Colorado USA
Died	17 November 1940(1940-11-17) (aged 60) Los Angeles, California USA
Other names	Silvia Ashton
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1912-1929

Sylvia Ashton (26 January 1880 – 17 November 1940) was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 134 films between 1912 and 1929.^[1] She was born in Denver, Colorado and died in Los Angeles, California. 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.^[2] For years she was a regular member of Cecil B. DeMille's troupe of character actors. She retired from movies almost immediately at the dawn of sound, one of her last films being the part-talkie, The Barker (1928).

Sylvia Ashton, at right with Betty Compson and below with Walter Hiers and Leatrice Joy.(Motion Picture Magazine – August, 1922

Selected 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)
• Fuss and Feathers (1918)
• Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
• For Better, for Worse (1919)
• Jack Straw (1920)
• Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
• Thou Art the Man (1920)
• Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1920)
• Sham (1921)
• Saturday Night (1922)
• Manslaughter (1922)
• The White Flower (1923)
• Greed (1924)
• Cheating Cheaters (1927)
• The Barker (1928)
• Queen Kelly (1928)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sylvia Ashton.

• Sylvia Ashton at the Internet Movie Database
• Sylvia Ashton at AllRovi