---
name: "Sylvia Ashton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sylvia-ashton"
fi1m_id: "sylvia-ashton"
imdb_id: "nm0039276"
tmdb_id: 35505
wikidata_id: "Q348189"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 January 1880"
died: "17 November 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:10:42.287005+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Sylvia Ashton

## Identity

Sylvia Ashton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sylvia-ashton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sylvia-ashton
- **IMDb ID:** nm0039276
- **TMDB ID:** 35505
- **Wikidata ID:** Q348189
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Ashton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348189, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039276/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35505

Actor. Born 25 January 1880 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Died 17 November 1940.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 January 1880, Denver, Colorado, USA
- **Died:** 17 November 1940
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Ashton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348189, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039276/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35505

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Greed*](https://film.one/film/greed.md) (86)

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## Biography

Sylvia Ashton was an American actress of the silent film era. Born in Denver, Colorado, she began her screen career in 1912 as a member of D.W. Griffith's stock company and subsequently worked for Famous Players–Lasky. She appeared regularly in Cecil B. DeMille productions and was often cast in mother and grandmother roles.

Ashton appeared in more than 130 films between 1912 and 1929. She is credited as Mommer Sieppe in *Greed* (1924) and as Kelly's Aunt (uncredited) in *Queen Kelly* (1929). Other notable appearances include an uncredited role in *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916). She retired from films shortly after the transition to sound.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Greed* (1924), Fi1m 86, as Mommer Sieppe — [page](https://film.one/film/greed.md)

## Complete filmography (72)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Queen Kelly* (1929), as Kelly's Aunt (uncredited)
- *The Crash* (1928), as Mrs. Carleton
- *The Barker* (1928), as Ma Benson
- *The Head Man* (1928), as Mrs. Briggs
- *Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath* (1928), as Ma Slocum
- *Bachelor’s Paradise* (1928), as Mrs. Malone
- *Cheating Cheaters* (1927), as Mrs. Brockton
- *Red Signals* (1927), as Opal Summers
- *Dancing Days* (1926), as Katinka
- *Greed* (1924), as Mommer Sieppe — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/greed.md)
- *Desire* (1923), as Mrs. Patrick Ryan
- *Souls for Sale* (1923), as Mrs. Kale (uncredited)
- *The White Flower* (1923), as Mrs. Gregory Bolton
- *Youth to Youth* (1922), as Mrs. Jolley
- *Manslaughter* (1922), as Prison Matron
- *While Satan Sleeps* (1922), as Mrs. Bones
- *Our Leading Citizen* (1922), as Mrs. Brazey
- *For the Defense* (1922), as Signora Bartoni
- *Is Matrimony a Failure?* (1922), as Mrs. Pearson
- *Saturday Night* (1922), as Mrs. O'Day
- *A Daughter of Luxury* (1922), as Mrs. Walford
- *A Prince There Was* (1921), as Mrs. Prouty
- *The Love Charm* (1921), as Julia Nast
- *Garments of Truth* (1921), as Widow Jones
- *Her Sturdy Oak* (1921), as Belle Bright
- *Sham* (1921), as Aunt Bella
- *The Love Special* (1921), as Mrs. Whitney
- *Hold Your Horses* (1921), as Hoonora Canavan
- *The Snob* (1921), as Mrs. Haynes
- *Conrad in Quest of His Youth* (1920), as Mary Page
- *A City Sparrow* (1920), as Mrs. Babb
- *Sweet Lavender* (1920), as Dotty Driscoe
- *The Fourteenth Man* (1920), as Mrs. Tidmarsh
- *The Soul of Youth* (1920), as Mrs. Hodge
- *Why Change Your Wife?* (1920), as Aunt Kate
- *Mrs. Temple's Telegram* (1920), as Mrs. Fuller
- *Jenny Be Good* (1920), as Sophia Shuttles
- *Thou Art the Man* (1920), as Chaperone
- *Jack Straw* (1920), as Mrs. Parker Jennings
- *The Lottery Man* (1919), as Mrs. Peyton
- *The Heart of Youth* (1919), as The Cook
- *A Very Good Young Man* (1919), as Mrs. Douglas
- *Men, Women, and Money* (1919), as Aunt Hannah
- *For Better, for Worse* (1919), as Sylvia's Aunt
- *Johnny Get Your Gun* (1919), as Aunt Agatha
- *Peggy Does Her Darndest* (1919), as Mrs. Ensloe
- *Don't Change Your Husband* (1919), as Mrs. Huckney
- *Under the Top* (1919), as Lotta Crust
- *Fuss and Feathers* (1918), as Mrs. Ledyard
- *The Goat* (1918), as The Baby Vampire
- *A Pair of Silk Stockings* (1918), as Lady Gower
- *We Can't Have Everything* (1918), as Kedzie's Mother
- *Old Wives for New* (1918), as Sophy Murdock
- *Secrets of a Beauty Parlor* (1917), as Beauty Parlor Worker
- *Her Fame and Shame* (1917), as Carrie Little
- *The Nick of Time Baby* (1916), as The Rival's Mother
- *Billy the Bandit* (1916), as Mrs. Uno I. Love
- *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916), as Woman at Jenkins Employees Dance (uncredited) — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/intolerance-loves-struggle-throughout-the-ages.md)
- *The Suppressed Order* (1916), as Mammy June
- *Pretenses* (1915), as Mrs. Guffy
- *Casey's Vendetta* (1914), as Casey's Wife
- *Black and White* (1913), as Black Woman
- *The Suffragette Minstrels* (1913), as Old Woman
- *Father's Chicken Dinner* (1913), Actor
- *Papa's Baby* (1913), as Mama Binks
- *Sharps and Chaps* (1912), as Mrs. De Risque
- *The Cowboy Guardians* (1912), as The Widow
- *Her Friend, the Doctor* (1912), as Ma Carston
- *Hearts and Skirts* (1912), as Chaperone to Mabel
- *The Speed Demon* (1912), as The Speed Demon's Wife's Friend
- *A Dash Through the Clouds* (1912), as Carmelita
- *When the Fire-Bells Rang* (1912), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Sylvia Ashton](https://film.one/media/person/3849764/gallery-8b3c1449688c.jpg) Sylvia Ashton — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Silent_films_actress_Sylvia_Ashton_%28SAYRE_2888%29.jpg/1280px-Silent_films_actress_Sylvia_Ashton_%28SAYRE_2888%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Silent films actress Sylvia Ashton. Subjects: actresses, motion pictures (1921)](https://film.one/media/person/3849764/gallery-110e63620157.jpg) Silent films actress Sylvia Ashton. Subjects: actresses, motion pictures (1921) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Silent_films_actress_Sylvia_Ashton_%28SAYRE_2269%29.jpg/1280px-Silent_films_actress_Sylvia_Ashton_%28SAYRE_2269%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Sylvia Ashton](https://film.one/media/person/3849764/gallery-5b6e9b81ef94.jpg) Sylvia Ashton — Image via TMDB

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