Occupation Actress Years active 1912-1929 | Name Sylvia Ashton | |
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Born January 26, 1880 ( 1880-01-26 ) Denver, Colorado USA Died November 17, 1940(1940-11-17) (aged 60)Los Angeles, California USA | ||
Sylvia
Sylvia Ashton (January 26, 1880 – November 17, 1940) was an American film actress of the silent film era.
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Biography
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. For years she was a regular member of Cecil B. DeMille's troupe of character actors. She appeared in 134 films between 1912 and 1929. She retired from movies almost immediately at the dawn of sound, one of her last films being the part-talkie, The Barker (1928). She died in Los Angeles, California.
Filmography
Actress
1932
Queen Kelly as
Kelly's Aunt (uncredited)
1928
The Crash as
Mrs. Carleton
1928
The Barker as
Ma Benson
1928
The Head Man as
Mrs. Briggs
1928
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath as
Ma Slcum
1928
Bachelor's Paradise as
Mrs. Malone
1928
The Leopard Lady as
Mama Lolita
1927
Cheating Cheaters as
Mrs. Brockton
1927
Women's Wares as
Patron
1927
Red Signals as
Opal Summers
1926
Dancing Days as
Katinka
1924
Greed as
'Mommer' Sieppe (as Silvia Ashton)
1923
Desire as
Mrs. Patrick Ryan
1923
Souls for Sale as
Mrs. Kale (uncredited)
1923
The White Flower as
Mrs. Gregory Bolton
1922
A Daughter of Luxury as
Mrs. Walford
1922
Ocean Swells (Short) as
The Mother-in-Law
1922
Youth to Youth as
Mrs. Jolley
1922
Manslaughter as
Prison Matron
1922
Borderland as
Mrs. Conlon
1922
While Satan Sleeps as
Mrs. Bones
1922
Our Leading Citizen as
Mrs. Brazey
1922
For the Defense as
Signora Bartoni
1922
Is Matrimony a Failure? as
Mrs. Pearson
1922
Saturday Night as
Mrs. O'Day
1921
The Love Charm as
Julia Nast
1921
A Prince There Was as
Mrs. Prouty
1921
Garments of Truth as
Widow Jones
1921
Her Sturdy Oak as
Belle Bright
1921
Sham as
Aunt Bella
1921
The Love Special as
Mrs. Whitney
1921
The Blushing Bride as
Mrs. James Horton-Kemp
1921
The Snob as
Mrs. Haynes
1921
Hold Your Horses as
Hoonora Canavan
1920
Conrad in Quest of His Youth as
Mary Page
1920
Sweet Lavender as
Dotty Driscoe
1920
A City Sparrow as
Mrs. Babb
1920
The Fourteenth Man as
Mrs. Tidmarsh
1920
The Soul of Youth as
Mrs. Hodge
1920
Mrs. Temple's Telegram as
Mrs. Fuller
1920
Jenny Be Good as
Sophia Shuttles
1920
Thou Art the Man as
Chaperone
1920
Jack Straw as
Mrs. Parker Jennings
1920
Why Change Your Wife? as
Aunt Kate
1919
The Lottery Man as
Mrs. Peyton
1919
The Heart of Youth as
The Cook
1919
Rose o' the River as
Mrs. Ann Brooks
1919
A Very Good Young Man as
Mrs. Douglas
1919
Men, Women, and Money as
Aunt Hannah
1919
For Better, for Worse as
Sylvia's Aunt
1919
Johnny Get Your Gun as
Aunt Agatha
1919
Peggy Does Her Darndest as
Mrs. Ensloe
1919
Don't Change Your Husband as
Mrs. Huckney
1919
Under the Top as
Lotta Crust
1918
Fuss and Feathers as
Mrs. Ledyard
1918
The Goat as
The Baby Vampire
1918
A Pair of Silk Stockings as
Lady Gower
1918
We Can't Have Everything as
Kedzie's Mother
1918
Old Wives for New as
Sophy Murdock
1918
A Safe Danger (Short)
1917
Dangers of a Bride (Short) as
Minor Role (uncredited)
1917
Whose Baby? (Short) as
Heavy Girl (uncredited)
1917
A Box of Tricks (Short) as
Bess's Mother
1917
Secrets of a Beauty Parlor (Short) as
Beauty Parlor Worker
1917
Her Fame and Shame (Short) as
Carrie Little - The Leading Lady
1917
The Beauty Doctor (Short) as
Mrs. Mason
1917
Honest Thieves (Short)
1916
The Nick of Time Baby (Short) as
The Rival's Mother
1916
Billy the Bandit (Short) as
Mrs. Uno I. Love (as Mother Ashton)
1916
A Charming Villain (Short) as
The Vampire
1916
Haystacks and Steeples (Short) as
Minor Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1916
Intolerance as
Woman at Jenkins Employees Dance (uncredited)
1916
Maid Mad (Short) as
Mrs. Cecil Haggerty
1916
Revelation as
Undetermined role
1916
Overalls as
Widow Malone
1916
The Suppressed Order (Short) as
Mammy June
1916
A Sanitarium Scramble (Short) as
Aunt Penelope (as Mrs. Ashton)
1916
Viviana (Short) as
Viviana's Mother
1916
Matching Dreams (Short) as
Mrs. Hammond
1915
Pretenses (Short) as
Mrs. Guffy (as Mother Ashton)
1915
The Supreme Test as
Bridget O'Malley
1915
This Is the Life (Short) as
Martha, Adeline's Maid (as Sylvia 'Mother' Ashton)
1915
Buck's Lady Friend (Short) as
Georgine
1915
Buck Parvin in the Movies (Short)
1915
It Almost Happened (Short) as
Mrs. Cutter
1915
No Flirting Allowed (Short) as
The Boss's Wife
1915
Blue Blood and Yellow Backs (Short)
1915
Beulah
1915
A Flurry in Art (Short) as
Mrs. Gillespie
1915
The Man Who Died (Short) as
Mrs. Scott
1915
A Flyer in Spring Water (Short) as
The Wife
1915
Love and Business (Short) as
The Spinster
1914
The Housebreakers (Short) as
The Commissioner's Wife
1914
A Corner in Hats (Short)
1914
Casey's Vendetta (Short) as
Casey's Wife (as Miss Ashton)
1914
Shorty and Sherlock Holmes (Short) as
Nora (as Miss Ashton)
1914
Shorty and the Fortune Teller (Short) as
Bess - the Fortune Teller
1914
The Feud at Beaver Creek (Short) as
Marm Cole (as Miss Ashton)
1914
Tennessee (Short) as
Marm Hastings
1914
And the Dance Went On (Short) as
Jane - Jim's Sweetheart
1914
And the Villain Still Pursued Her (Short) as
Aunt Clara - Geraldine's Aunt
1914
Children of Destiny (Short) as
The Wife
1914
Hiram's Hotel (Short) as
Maria - Hiram's Wife
1913
The God of Girzah (Short) as
Mrs. Ashton
1913
War of the Cattle Range (Short)
1913
The Raid of the Human Tigers as
Mrs. Burton
1913
The Prairie Trail (Short)
1913
The Cowboy Magnate (Short) as
Miss Clifford - William's Sister
1913
Patsy's Luck (Short) as
Tilda, Patsy's Wife
1913
Baby Indisposed (Short) as
In Office (uncredited)
1913
Black and White (Short) as
Black Woman
1913
Objections Overruled (Short) as
Minor Role (uncredited)
1913
Father's Chicken Dinner (Short) as
Mrs. Ferdinand Fiction
1913
The Suffragette Minstrels (Short) as
Old Woman
1913
Papa's Baby (Short) as
Mama Binks
1913
Cupid and the Cook (Short) as
The Young Woman's Mother
1913
Mr. Spriggs Buys a Dog (Short) as
Mrs. Spriggs (as Miss Ashton)
1913
While the Count Goes Bathing (Short) as
The Young Woman's Mother
1913
A Chinese Puzzle (Short) as
The Mother
1913
The Sweat-Box (Short) as
Bridget (as Miss Ashton)
1913
A Sea Dog's Love (Short) as
Widow McManus
1913
An Old Maid's Deception (Short) as
Woman at Picnic (uncredited)
1913
Jenks Becomes a Desperate Character (Short) as
Second Visitor
1913
Just Kids (Short) as
The Professor's Wife
1913
Highbrow Love (Short) as
Extra
1913
Edwin Masquerades (Short) as
At Ball (uncredited)
1913
All Hail to the King (Short) as
The Queen
1913
A Delivery Package (Short) as
The Bride
1913
The Power of the Camera (Short) as
Townswoman (uncredited)
1913
Tightwad's Predicament (Short) as
One of the Wife's Friends
1913
A Queer Elopement (Short) as
The Sheriff's Wife
1913
Look Not Upon the Wine (Short) as
In Cabaret (uncredited)
1913
An Up-to-Date Lochinvar (Short) as
Dora's Mother
1913
There Were Hoboes Three (Short) as
Rescued from Lake (uncredited)
1913
The Masher Cop (Short) as
The Girl's Mother
1913
Kissing Kate (Short) as
At Church Fair (uncredited)
1913
The High Cost of Reduction (Short) as
First Actress
1913
The Bite of a Snake (Short) as
Women's Christian Temperance Union Member (unconfirmed)
1912
A Day's Outing (Short)
1912
The Shanghaied Cowboys (Short)
1912
Sharps and Chaps (Short) as
Mrs. De Risque
1912
Fatty's Big Mix-Up (Short)
1912
The Cowboy Guardians (Short) as
The Widow
1912
Her Friend, the Doctor (Short) as
Ma Carston
1912
Hearts and Skirts (Short) as
Chaperone to Mabel
1912
The Would-Be Shriner (Short) as
Hank Hopkins' Wife's Friend (unconfirmed)
1912
The Speed Demon (Short) as
The Speed Demon's Wife's Friend
1912
Trying to Fool Uncle (Short)
1912
A Dash Through the Clouds (Short) as
Carmelita - Young Mexican Woman
1912
Katchem Kate (Short) as
Kate's Supervisor
1912
Neighbors (Short) as
Second French Family, the Wife
1912
A Close Call (Short) as
Mother / Woman in Crowd
1912
When the Fire-Bells Rang (Short)
Self
1922
A Trip to Paramountown (Documentary short) as
Self
References
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