Biography
Sylvia Ashton (January 26, 1880 – November 18, 1940) was an American film actress of the silent film era.
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.In 1912, Ashton was an actress in D.W. Griffith's stock company. After that, she acted for Famous Players–Lasky. For years she was a regular member of Cecil B. DeMille's troupe of character actors. She appeared in more than 130 films between 1912 and 1929. She retired from movies almost immediately at the dawn of sound, one of her later films being the part-sound film The Barker (1928).
Ashton died on November 18, 1940, aged 60.
Filmography
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Movies 66
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Queen Kelly (1932)
The Crash (1928)
The Barker (1928)
The Head Man (1928)
The Leopard Lady (1928)
Cheating Cheaters (1927)
Red Signals (1927)
Dancing Days (1926)
Greed (1924)
Souls for Sale (1923)
The White Flower (1923)
Manslaughter (1922)
While Satan Sleeps (1922)
For the Defense (1922)
Saturday Night (1922)
A Daughter of Luxury (1922)
A Prince There Was (1921)
The Love Charm (1921)
Sham (1921)
The Love Special (1921)
A City Sparrow (1920)
The Fourteenth Man (1920)
The Soul of Youth (1920)
Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
Mrs. Temple's Telegram (1920)
Jenny Be Good (1920)
Jack Straw (1920)
The Lottery Man (1919)
For Better, for Worse (1919)
Johnny Get Your Gun (1919)
Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
Under the Top (1919)
A Pair of Silk Stockings (1918)
We Can't Have Everything (1918)
Old Wives for New (1918)
Whose Baby? (1917)
Dangers of a Bride (1917)
Secrets of a Beauty Parlor (1917)
Her Fame and Shame (1917)
Honest Thieves (1917)
The Nick of Time Baby (1916)
Haystacks and Steeples (1916)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
Revelation (1916)
Pretenses (1915)
The Supreme Test (1915)
Black and White (1913)
Father's Chicken Dinner (1913)
Papa's Baby (1913)
The Power of the Camera (1913)
Sharps and Chaps (1912)
The Cowboy Guardians (1912)
Her Friend, the Doctor (1912)
Hearts and Skirts (1912)
The Would-Be Shriner (1912)
The Speed Demon (1912)
A Dash Through the Clouds (1912)
Neighbors (1912)
Katchem Kate (1912)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1880-01-25
Deathday1940-11-17 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceDenver, Colorado, USA
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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