Agnes Ayres
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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 dir...
Known For
Filmography
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
as Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
as Self (archive footage)
Midnight Taxi
1937
as Society Woman
Maid of Salem
1937
as Townswoman (Uncredited)
Small Town Girl
1936
as Catherine (uncredited)
The Donovan Affair
1929
as Lydia Rankin
Into the Night
1928
as Billie Mardon
Eve's Love Letters
1927
as The wife
Life in Hollywood No. 7
1927
as Herself
The Son of the Sheik
1926
as Diana - Wife of the Sheik
Morals for Men
1925
as Bessie Hayes
Her Market Value
1925
as Nancy Dumont
The Awful Truth
1925
as Lucy Satterlee
Tomorrow's Love
1925
as Judith Stanley
The Story Without a Name
1924
as Mary Walsworth
The Guilty One
1924
as Irene Short
Detained
1924
Don't Call It Love
1924
as Alice Meldrum
When a Girl Loves
1924
as Sasha Boroff
Worldly Goods
1924
as Eleanor Lawson
Bluff
1924
as Betty Hallowell
The Ten Commandments
1923
as The Outcast
Hollywood
1923
as Agnes Ayres
Racing Hearts
1923
as Virginia Kent
The Marriage Maker
1923
as Alexandra Vancy
The Heart Raider
1923
as Muriel Gray (a speed girl)
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922
as Self
Clarence
1922
as Violet Pinney
The Ordeal
1922
as Sybil Bruce
Bought and Paid For
1922
as Virginia Blaine
A Daughter of Luxury
1922
as Mary Fenton
The Lane That Had No Turning
1922
as Madelinette
The Sheik
1921
as Lady Diana Mayo
The Affairs of Anatol
1921
as Annie Elliott
Too Much Speed
1921
as Virginia MacMurran
Forbidden Fruit
1921
as Mary Maddock
The Love Special
1921
as Laura Gage
Cappy Ricks
1921
as Florrie Ricks
A Modern Salome
1921
as Helen Torrence
Go and Get It
1920
as Helen Allen
The Inner Voice
1920
as Barbara
The Furnace
1920
as Folly Valance
Held by the Enemy
1920
as Rachel Hayne
Sacred Silence
1919
as Madge Summers
The Girl Problem
1919
as Helen Reeves
The Gamblers
1919
as Isabel Emerson
In Honor's Web
1919
as Irene Carson
A Stitch in Time
1919
as Lela Trevor
A Little Ouija Work
1918
Mammon and the Archer
1918
as Helen Lantry
Mrs. Balfame
1917
as Alys Crumley
The Venturers
1917
as Mary Marsden
Motherhood
1917
as The Mother
The Debt
1917
as The Girl
The Bottom of the Well
1917
as Alice Buckingham
The Dazzling Miss Davison
1917
as Lillian - Miss Davison's Sister
Richard the Brazen
1917
as Imogene