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Sylvia Ashton

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Sylvia Ashton

Birth
Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA
Death
17 Nov 1940 (aged 60)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend Add to Map
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Sylvia Ashton-He 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). 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)
The Barker (1928)
Queen Kelly (1928)
Sylvia Ashton-He 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). 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)
The Barker (1928)
Queen Kelly (1928)

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