- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 4, 1892
- Place of Birth
- Carbondale, Illinois, USA
- Died
- December 25, 1940
Agnes Ayres
From Wikipedia Agnes Ayres (April 4, 1892 – December 25, 1940) was an American actress who rose to fame during the silent film era. She was known for her role as Lady Diana Mayo in The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik opposite Rudolph Valentino. She was born Agnes Eyre Henkel in Carbondale, Illinois to Solon and Emma Slack Henkel on April 4, 1898. She had an older brother named Solon William Henkel born in 1888. Ayres began her career in 1914 when she was noticed by an Essanay Studios staff director and cast as an extra in a crowd scene. After moving to New York City with her mother to pursue a career in acting, Ayres was spotted by actress Alice Joyce. Joyce noticed the physical resemblance the two shared, which eventually led to Ayres being cast in Richard the Brazen (1917) as Joyce's character's sister. Ayres' career began to gain momentum when Paramount Pictures founder Jesse Lasky …
Filmography
movieThe Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961 · Self (archive footage)
movieScreen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942 · Self (archive footage)
movieMidnight Taxi
1937 · Society Woman
movieMaid of Salem
1937 · Townswoman (Uncredited)
movieSmall Town Girl
1936 · Catherine (uncredited)
movieThe Donovan Affair
1929 · Lydia Rankin
movieInto the Night
1928 · Billie Mardon
movieLife in Hollywood No. 7
1927 · Herself
movieEve's Love Letters
1927 · The wife
movieThe Son of the Sheik
1926 · Diana - Wife of the Sheik
movieMorals for Men
1925 · Bessie Hayes
movieThe Awful Truth
1925 · Lucy Satterlee
movieHer Market Value
1925 · Nancy Dumont
Tomorrow's Love
movieTomorrow's Love
1925 · Judith Stanley
movieWorldly Goods
1924 · Eleanor Lawson
movieThe Story Without a Name
1924 · Mary Walsworth
movieDetained
1924
movieThe Guilty One
1924 · Irene Short
movieBluff
1924 · Betty Hallowell
movieWhen a Girl Loves
1924 · Sasha Boroff
movieDon't Call It Love
1924 · Alice Meldrum
movieThe Ten Commandments
1923 · The Outcast
movieThe Marriage Maker
1923 · Alexandra Vancy
movieHollywood
1923 · Agnes Ayres
movieRacing Hearts
1923 · Virginia Kent
movieThe Heart Raider
1923 · Muriel Gray (a speed girl)
movieScreen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922 · Self
movieClarence
1922 · Violet Pinney
movieThe Ordeal
1922 · Sybil Bruce
movieBought and Paid For
1922 · Virginia Blaine
movieThe Lane That Had No Turning
1922 · Madelinette
A Daughter of Luxury
movieA Daughter of Luxury
1922 · Mary Fenton
movieThe Sheik
1921 · Lady Diana Mayo
movieThe Affairs of Anatol
1921 · Annie Elliott
movieA Modern Salome
1921 · Helen Torrence
movieCappy Ricks
1921 · Florrie Ricks
movieToo Much Speed
1921 · Virginia MacMurran
movieThe Love Special
1921 · Laura Gage
movieForbidden Fruit
1921 · Mary Maddock
movieThe Furnace
1920 · Folly Valance
movieHeld by the Enemy
1920 · Rachel Hayne
movieThe Inner Voice
1920 · Barbara
movieGo and Get It
1920 · Helen Allen
movieIn Honor's Web
1919 · Irene Carson
movieSacred Silence
1919 · Madge Summers
movieThe Gamblers
1919 · Isabel Emerson
movieA Stitch in Time
1919 · Lela Trevor
movieThe Girl Problem
1919 · Helen Reeves
movieMammon and the Archer
1918 · Helen Lantry
movieA Little Ouija Work
1918
movieThe Bottom of the Well
1917 · Alice Buckingham
movieThe Venturers
1917 · Mary Marsden
movieRichard the Brazen
1917 · Imogene
movieThe Dazzling Miss Davison
1917 · Lillian - Miss Davison's Sister
movieThe Debt
1917 · The Girl
movieMrs. Balfame
1917 · Alys Crumley
movieMotherhood
1917 · The Mother