Sylvia Ashton
Sylvia Ashton (Denver, 26 de gener de 1880-Los Angeles, 17 de novembre de 1940)[1] va ser una actriu de cinema mut.
Biografia | |
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Naixement | 26 gener 1880 Denver (Colorado) |
Mort | 17 novembre 1940 (60 anys) Los Angeles (Califòrnia) |
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Ocupació | actriu, actriu de cinema, actriu de teatre |
Activitat | 1912 - 1929 |
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Biografia
modificaEn algunes fonts consta que va néixer en un vaixell en mig de l'oceà.[1] Abans d'iniciar la seva carrera cinematogràfica va actuar en el teatre durant 15 anys.[2] Va debutar e l'obra “Milk White Flag” de Charles H. Hoyt actuant durant aquella època amb artistes com Mary Marble, George Sidney, Kathryn Grey o Blanche Walsh.[1] Va debutar al cinema el 1910 de la mà de la Biograph, primer sota les ordres de Mack Sennett i després dirigida per Dell Henderson. Actriu molt corpulent, es va especialitzar en papers de mare o de dona gran.[1] Després va passar a actuar en comèdies de la Kalem i de la L-KO. Més tard va actuar en papers secundaris rellevants de pel·lícules de la Famous Players-Lasky com “Don't Change Your Husband” (1919) o “Men Women and Money” (1919). Durant els anys 20 va estar a la MGM participant en pel·lícules com “Souls for Sale” (1923), “Greed” (1925) o “Queen Kelly” (produïda durant els anys 1928-29 però estrenada el 1932). Va deixar el cinema amb l'arribada del sonor. Va morir a causa de problemes cardíacs i diabetis el 1940.[3]
Filmografia seleccionada
modifica- When the Fire-Bells Rang (1912)
- A Close Call (1912)
- Neighbors (1912)
- Katchem Kate (1912)
- A Dash Through the Clouds (1912)
- Trying to Fool Uncle (1912)
- The Speed Demon (1912)
- The Would-Be Shriner (1912)
- Hearts and Skirts (1912)
- Her Friend, the Doctor (1912)
- Helen's Marriage (1912)
- The Cowboy Guardians (1912)
- Fatty's Big Mix-Up (1912)
- Sharps and Chaps (1912)
- The Shanghaied Cowboys (1912)
- A Day's Outing (1912)
- The Bite of a Snake (1913)
- The High Cost of Reduction (1913)
- Kissing Kate (1913)
- The Masher Cop (1913)
- There Were Hoboes Three (1913)
- An Up-to-Date Lochinvar (1913)
- Look Not Upon the Wine (1913)
- A Queer Elopement (1913)
- Tightwad's Predicament (1913)
- The Power of the Camera (1913)
- A Delivery Package (1913)
- All Hail to the King (1913)
- Edwin Masquerades (1913)
- Highbrow Love (1913)
- Just Kids (1913)
- Jenks Becomes a Desperate Character (1913)
- An Old Maid's Deception (1913)
- A Sea Dog's Love (1913)
- The Sweat-Box (1913)
- A Chinese Puzzle (1913)
- While the Count Goes Bathing (1913)
- Mr. Spriggs Buys a Dog (1913)
- Cupid and the Cook (1913)
- Papa's Baby (1913)
- The Suffragette Minstrels (1913)
- Father's Chicken Dinner (1913)
- Objections Overruled (1913)
- Black and White (1913)
- Baby Indisposed]' (1913)
- Patsy's Luck (1913)
- The Cowboy Magnate (1913)
- The Prairie Trail (1913)
- The Raid of the Human Tigers (1913)
- War of the Cattle Range (1913)
- The God of Girzah (1913)
- Hiram's Hotel (1914)
- Children of Destiny (1914)
- And the Villain Still Pursued Her (1914)
- And the Dance Went On (1914)
- Tennessee (1914)
- The Feud at Beaver Creek (1914)
- Shorty and the Fortune Teller (1914)
- Shorty and Sherlock Holmes (1914)
- Casey's Vendetta (1914)
- A Corner in Hats (1914)
- The Housebreakers (1914)
- Love and Business (1915)
- A Flyer in Spring Water (1915)
- The Man Who Died (1915)
- A Flurry in Art (1915)
- Beulah (1915)
- Blue Blood and Yellow Backs (1915)
- No Flirting Allowed (1915)
- It Almost Happened (1915)
- Buck Parvin in the Movies (1915)
- Buck's Lady Friend (1915)
- This Is the Life (1915)
- The Supreme Test (1915)
- Pretenses (1915)
- Matching Dreams, (1916)
- Viviana (1916)
- A Sanitarium Scramble (1916)
- The Suppressed Order (1916)
- Overalls (1916)
- Revelation (1916)
- Intolerance (1916)
- Maid Mad (1916)
- Haystacks and Steeples (1916)
- A Charming Villain (1916)
- Billy the Bandit (1916)
- The Nick of Time Baby (1916)
- Honest Thieves (1917)
- The Beauty Doctor (1917)
- Her Fame and Shame (1917)
- Secrets of a Beauty Parlor (1917)
- A Box of Tricks (1917)
- Whose Baby? (1917)
- Dangers of a Brid] (1917)
- A Safe Danger (1918)
- Old Wives for New (1918)
- We Can't Have Everything (1918)
- A Pair of Silk Stockings (1918)
- The Goat (1918)
- Fuss and Feathers (1918)
- Under the Top (1919)
- Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
- Peggy Does Her Darndest (1919)
- Johnny Get Your Gun (1919)
- For Better, for Worse (1919)
- Men, Women, and Money (1919)
- A Very Good Young Man (1919)
- Rose o' the River (1919)
- The Heart of Youth (1919)
- The Lottery Man (1919)
- Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
- Jack Straw (1920)
- Jenny Be Good (1920)
- Mrs. Temple's Telegram (1920)
- Thou Art the Man (1920)
- The Soul of Youth (1920)
- The Fourteenth Man1920)
- Sweet Lavender (1920)
- A City Sparrow (1920)
- Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1920)
- The Snob (1921)
- Hold Your Horses (1921)
- The Blushing Bride (1921)
- The Love Special (1921)
- Sham (1921)
- Her Sturdy Oak (1921)
- Garments of Truth (1921)
- The Love Charm (1921)
- A Prince There Was (1921)
- Saturday Night (1922)
- Is Matrimony a Failure? (1922)
- For the Defense (1922)
- Our Leading Citizen (1922)
- While Satan Sleeps (1922)
- Borderland (1922)
- Manslaughter (1922)
- Youth to Youth (1922)
- Ocean Swells (1922)
- A Daughter of (1922)
- The White Flower (1923)
- Souls for Sale (1923)
- Desire (1923)
- Greed (1924)
- Dancing Days (1926)
- Red Signals (1927)
- Women's Wares (1927)
- Cheating Cheaters (1927)
- The Leopard Lady (1928)
- Bachelor's Paradise (1928)
- Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath (1928)
- The Head Man (1928)
- The Crash (1928)
- The Barker (1928)
- Queen Kelly (1932)
Referències
modifica- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 Walker, Brent E. Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies (en anglès). McFarland & Company, 2010, p. 485. ISBN 978-0-7864-3610-1.
- ↑ «ASHTON, Sylvia». Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual, 1920, pàg. 258.
- ↑ Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, (3a ed) (en anglès). McFarland & Company, 2016, p. 29. ISBN 978-0-7864-7992-4.