Actor
Agnes Ayres
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
Acting
1961 -- The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | Self (archive footage)
1942 -- Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) | Self (archive footage)
1937 -- Midnight Taxi | Society Woman
1937 -- Maid of Salem | Townswoman (Uncredited)
1936 -- Small Town Girl | Catherine (uncredited)
1929 -- The Donovan Affair | Lydia Rankin
1927 -- Life in Hollywood No. 7 | Herself
1927 -- Eve's Love Letters | 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
1924 -- The Story Without a Name | Mary Walsworth
1924 -- Detained |
1924 -- The Guilty One | Irene Short
1924 -- Don't Call It Love | Alice Meldrum
1923 -- The Ten Commandments | The Outcast
1923 -- The Marriage Maker | Alexandra Vancy
1923 -- Hollywood | Agnes Ayres
1923 -- Racing Hearts | Virginia Kent
1923 -- The Heart Raider | Muriel Gray (a speed girl)
1922 -- Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 | Self
1922 -- Clarence | Violet Pinney
1922 -- The Ordeal | Sybil Bruce
1922 -- Bought and Paid For | Virginia Blaine
1922 -- The Lane That Had No Turning | Madelinette
1922 -- A Daughter of Luxury | Mary Fenton
1921 -- The Sheik | Lady Diana Mayo
1921 -- The Affairs of Anatol | Annie Elliott
1921 -- A Modern Salome | Helen Torrence
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 Valance
1920 -- Held by the Enemy | Rachel Hayne
1920 -- The Inner Voice | Barbara
1920 -- Go and Get It | Helen Allen
1919 -- Sacred Silence | Madge Summers
1918 -- Mammon and the Archer | Helen Lantry
1918 -- A Little Ouija Work |
1917 -- The Venturers | Mary Marsden
1917 -- The Debt | The Girl
1917 -- Mrs. Balfame | Alys Crumley
1917 -- Motherhood | The Mother
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