Sylvia Ashton

For the New Zealand writer and poet, see Sylvia Ashton-Warner.

Sylvia Ashton
Who's Who in the Film World, 1914
Born	(1880-01-26)January 26, 1880 Denver, Colorado USA
Died	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. 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)
• A Pair of Silk Stockings (1918)
• Fuss and Feathers (1918)
• Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
• For Better, for Worse (1919)
• Men, Women, and Money (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)
• Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath (1928)
• The Barker (1928)
• Queen Kelly (1928)

External links

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