Sylvia Ashton
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| Sylvia Ashton | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 26, 1880 Denver, Colorado USA |
| Died | November 17, 1940 (aged 60) Los Angeles, California USA |
| Other names | Silvia Ashton |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1912 – 1929 |
Sylvia Ashton (January 26, 1880 – November 17, 1940) was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 134 films between 1912 and 1929. 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. 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).
[edit] 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)
- Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1920)
- Sham (1921)
- Saturday Night (1922)
- Manslaughter (1922)
- The White Flower (1923)
- Greed (1924)
- The Barker (1928)
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