Sylvia Ashton


Sylvia Ashton 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.
Ashton died on November 18, 1940, aged 60.

Partial filmography

The Nick of Time Baby Matching Dreams Viviana A Sanitarium Scramble Haystacks and Steeples Whose Baby? Old Wives for New We Can't Have Everything A Pair of Silk Stockings The Goat Fuss and Feathers Don't Change Your Husband Peggy Does Her Darndest For Better, for Worse Men, Women, and Money Jack Straw Mrs. Temple's Telegram Sweet Lavender Jenny Be Good Why Change Your Wife? Thou Art the Man The Soul of Youth Conrad in Quest of His Youth Sham Hold Your Horses Garments of Truth The Snob Saturday Night For the Defense Our Leading Citizen While Satan Sleeps Manslaughter Youth to Youth The White Flower Desire Greed Dancing Days Women's Wares Cheating Cheaters Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath The Barker The Head Man The Crash Bachelor's Paradise Queen Kelly