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Agnes Ayres (1898–1940)

Actress

Born in Carbondale, Illinois, Agnes Ayres got into films in Chicago, where she was studying at school, by playing extra and bit parts in films being shot there. She achieved fame as "Lady Mayo" opposite Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik, which was such a monster hit it spawned a sequel in which she also appeared... See full bio »

Born:

Agnes Eyre Henkel
in Carbondale, Illinois, USA

Died:

(age 42) in Los Angeles, California, USA
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1937 Morning, Judge (short)
Mrs. Kennedy
 
1937 Souls at Sea
Bit Role (uncredited)
 
1937 Midnight Taxi
Society Woman (uncredited)
 
1937 Maid of Salem
Townswoman (uncredited)
 
1936 Small Town Girl
Catherine (uncredited)
 
1929 The Donovan Affair
Lydia Rankin
 
1929 Bye, Bye, Buddy
Glad O'Brien
 
1929 Broken Hearted
 
1928 Into the Night
Billie Mardon
 
1928 The Lady of Victories (short)
Josephine
 
1927 Eve's Love Letters (short)
The wife
 
1926 The Son of the Sheik
Diana - Wife of the Sheik
 
1925 Morals for Men
Bessie Hayes
 
1925 The Awful Truth
Lucy Satterlee
 
1925 Her Market Value
Nancy Dumont
 
1925 Tomorrow's Love
Judith Stanley
 
1924 Worldly Goods
Eleanor Lawson
 
1924 The Story Without a Name
Mary Walsworth
 
1924 Detained (short)
 
1924 The Guilty One
Irene Short
 
1924 Bluff
Betty Hallowell
 
1924 When a Girl Loves
Sasha Boroff
 
1923 Don't Call It Love
Alice Meldrum
 
1923 The Ten Commandments
The Outcast
 
1923 The Marriage Maker
Alexandra Vancy
 
1923 Racing Hearts
Virginia Kent
 
1923 The Heart Raider
Muriel Gray (a speed girl)
 
1922 A Daughter of Luxury
Mary Fenton
 
1922 Clarence
Violet Pinney
 
1922 Borderland
Spirit/Dora Becket/Edith Wayne
 
1922 The Ordeal
Sybil Bruce
 
1922 Bought and Paid For
Virginia Blaine
 
1922 The Lane That Had No Turning
Madelinette
 
1921 The Sheik
Lady Diana Mayo
 
1921 The Affairs of Anatol
Annie Elliott
 
1921 Cappy Ricks
Florrie Ricks
 
1921 Too Much Speed
Virginia MacMurran
 
1921 The Love Special
Laura Gage
 
1921 Forbidden Fruit
Mary Maddock
 
1920 The Furnace
Folly Vallance
 
1920 Held by the Enemy
Rachel Hayne
 
1920 Go and Get It
Helen Allen
 
1920 The Inner Voice
Barbara
 
1920 A Modern Salome
Helen Torrence
 
1919 The Ghost of a Chance (short)
 
1919 Sacred Silence
Madge Summers
 
1919 The Gamblers
Isabel Emerson
 
1919 In Honor's Web
Irene Carson
 
1919 The Buried Treasure (short)
 
1919 The Guardian of the Accolade (short)
 
1919 A Stitch in Time
Lela Trevor
 
1919 Shocks of Doom (short)
 
1919 The Girl Problem
Helen Reeves
 
1918 Transients in Arcadia (short)
 
1918 A Bird of Bagdad (short)
 
1918 Springtime à la Carte (short)
 
1918 Mammon and the Archer (short)
 
1918 One Thousand Dollars
Margarett Hayden
 
1918 The Girl and the Graft (short)
 
1918 Sisters of the Golden Circle (short)
Mrs. James Williams
 
1918 The Enchanted Profile (short)
Ida Bates
 
1918 The Purple Dress (short)
Maida
 
1918 A Ramble in Aphasia (short)
 
1918 Tobin's Palm (short)
 
1918 Surprising Husband (short)
 
1918 The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball (short)
 
1918 Their Godson (short)
 
1918 Sweets to the Sour (short)
 
1918 Coals for the Fire (short)
 
1918 Their Anniversary Feast (short)
 
1918 A Four Cornered Triangle (short)
 
1918 Seeking an Oversoul (short)
 
1918 A Little Ouija Work (short)
 
1917 His Wife's Hero (short)
The Cause
 
1917 His Wife Got All the Credit (short)
 
1917 He Had to Camouflage (short)
 
1917 Paging Page Two (short)
 
1917 A Family Flivver (short)
 
1917 The Renaissance at Charleroi
Adele Fauquier (as Agnes Eyre)
 
1917 The Bottom of the Well
Alice Buckingham
 
1917 The Furnished Room (short) (as Agnes Eyre)
 
1917 The Defeat of the City
Alicia Van Der Pool (as Agnes Eyre)
 
1917 The Venturers (as Agnes Eyre)
 
1917 Richard the Brazen
Imogene (as Agnes Eyre)
 
1917 The Dazzling Miss Davison
Lillian, Miss Davison's Sister (as Agnes Eyre)
 
1917 The Mirror
Undetermined Role (as Agnes Eyre)
 
1917 Hedda Gabler (as Agnes Eyre)
 
1917 The Debt
The Girl (as Agnes Eyre)
 
1917 Mrs. Balfame
Alys Crumley (as Agnes Eyre)
 
1917/I Motherhood
The Mother (as Agnes Eyre)
 
1915 His New Job (short)
Extra, Secretary (uncredited)
 
1914 The Masked Wrestler (short)
Undetermined Secondary Role (unconfirmed) (uncredited)
 
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1923 Hollywood
Herself
 
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2006 Life Is a Dream in Cinema: Pola Negri (documentary)
Herself
 
1980 Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary)
Herself
 
1961 The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (video documentary)
Herself
 
1947 Flicker Flashbacks No. 2, Series 5 (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1941 Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 2 (short)
 
1938 Personality Parade (documentary short)
Herself (scene with Rudolph Valentino) (uncredited)
 
1937 Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (documentary short)
Herself
 

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The Sheik -- A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert. His New Job -- Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set he is told to help the carpenter...
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Personal Details

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Alternate Names:

Agnes Eyre

Height:

5' 3" (1.60 m)
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Trivia:

She lost much of her fortune in the 1929 stock market crash. See more »

Star Sign:

Aries