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Sylvia Ashton

Sylvia Ashton

1880 - 1940

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The actress Sylvia Ashton joined the film business in 1912 where she soon became a demanded actress, often in the roles of a mother.

She began her film career with "Trying to Fool Uncle" (12), "The Speed Demon" (12), "The Cowboy Guardians" (12) and "Fatty's Big Mix-Up" (12) among others.

In the next years she took aprt in numerous other movies like "Kissing Kate" (13), "A Queer Elopement" (13), "All Hail to the King" (13), "A Chinese Puzzle" (13), "Black and White" (13), "The Raid of the Human Tiger" (13), "Tennessee" (14), "Shorty and Sherlock Holmes" (14), "The Housebreakers" (14), "Love and Business" (15), "The Man Who Died" (15), "Viviana" (16), "Intolerance" (16), "Billy the Bandit" (16), "Whose Baby?" (17), "We Can't Have Everything" (18), "Under the Top" (19) and "For Better, for Worse" (19) directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

The 20s offered her again numerous thankful roles, e.g. by Cecil B. DeMille again and she appeared in the productions "Jenny Be Good" (20), "The Soul of Youth" (20), "The Snob" (21), "The Love Charm" (21), "Borderland" (22), "Manslaughter" (22), "Desire" (23), "Greed" (24) directed by Erich von Strohiem", "Cheating Cheaters" (27), "Bachelor's Paradise" (28) and "The Barker" (28).

Sylvia Ashton retired from the film business with the rise of the talkies, only for Erich von Stroheim's movie "Queen Kelly" (32) with Gloria Swanson and Walter Byren she returned a last time.
 

Other movies with Sylvia Ashton:
When the Fire-Bells Rang (12) A Close Call (12) Neighbors (12) Katchem Kate (12) A Dash Through the Clouds (12) The Would-Be Shriner (12) Hearts and Skirts (12) Her Friend, the Doctor (12) Sharps and Chaps (12) The Shanghaied Cowboys (12) A Day's Outing (12) The High Cost of Reduction (13) The Masher Cop (13) There Were Hoboes Three (13) An Up-to-Date Lochinvar (13) Look Not Upon the Wine (13) Tightwad's Predicament (13) The Power of the Camera (13) A Delivery Package (13) Edwin Masquerades (13) Highbrow Love (13) Just Kids (13) Jenks Becomes a Desperate Character (13) An Old Maid's Deception (13) A Sea Dog's Love (13) While the Count Goes Bathing (13) Cupid and the Cook (13) Papa's Baby (13) The Suffragette Minstrels (13) Objections Overruled (13) Baby Indisposed (13) Patsy's Luck (13) The Cowboy Magnate (13) Hiram's Hotel (14) And the Villain Still Pursued Her (14) And the Dance Went On (14) The Feud at Beaver Creek (14) Shorty and the Forunte Teller (14) Casey's Vendetta (14) A Corner in Hats (14) A Flyer in Spring Water (15) A Flurry in Art (15) Beulah (15) Buck Parvin in the Movies (15) Buck's Lady Friend (15) This Is the Life (15) The Supreme Test (15) Pretenses (15) Matching Dreams (16) A Sanitarium Scramble (16) The Suppressed Order (16) Overalls (16) Revelations (16) Maid Mad (16) Haystacks and Steeples (16) The Nick of Time Baby (16) Honest Thieves (17) The Beauty Doctor (17) Her Fame and Shame (17) Secrets of a Beauty Parlor (17) A Box of Tricks (17) A Safe Danger (18) Old Wives for New (18) A Pair of Silk Stockings (18) The Goat (18) Fuss and Feathers (18) Don't Change Your Husband (19) Peggy Does Her Darndest (19) Johnny Get Your Gun (19) Men, Women, and Money (19) A Very Good Young Man (19) Rose o' the River (19) The Heart of Youth (19) The Lottery Man (19) Jack Straw (20) Mrs. Temple's Telegram (20) Why Change Your Wife? (20) Thou Art the Man (20) The Fourteenth Man (20) A City Sparrow (20) Sweet Lavender (20) Conrad in Quest of His Youth (20) Hold Your Horses (21) The Blushing Bride (21) The Love Special (21) Sham (21) Her Sturdy Oak (21) Garments of Truth (21) A Prince There Was (21) Saturday Night (22) Is Matrimony a Failure? (22) For the Defense (22) Our Leading Citizen (22) While Satan Sleeps (22) Youth to Youth (22) Ocean Swells (22) A Daugher of Luxury (22) The White Flower (23) Souls for Sale (23) Dancing Days (26) Red Signals (27) Women's Wares (27) The Leopard Lady (28) Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath (28) The Head Man (28) The Crash (28) 


 
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