Sylvia Ashton
For the New Zealand writer and poet, see Sylvia Ashton-Warner.
| Sylvia Ashton | |
|---|---|
 Who's Who in the Film World, 1914 | |
| Born |
January 26, 1880 Denver, Colorado USA |
| Died |
November 17, 1940 (aged 60) Los Angeles, California USA |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1912-1929 |
Sylvia Ashton (January 26, 1880 – November 17, 1940) was an American film actress of the silent film 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)
- A Pair of Silk Stockings (1918)
- Fuss and Feathers (1918)
- Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
- For Better, for Worse (1919)
- Jack Straw (1920)
- Mrs. Temple's Telegram (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)
- Saturday Night (1922)
- For the Defense (1922)
- Our Leading Citizen (1922)
- While Satan Sleeps (1922)
- Manslaughter (1922)
- The White Flower (1923)
- Greed (1924)
- Cheating Cheaters (1927)
- The Barker (1928)
- Queen Kelly (1928)
References
- ↑ Sylvia Ashton - IMDb
- ↑ "Sylvia Ashton, VGuide". Ovguide.com. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
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