Agnes Ayres
Birthday
1892/04/04
Day of death
1940/12/25 (48 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Carbondale, Illinois, USA
Also know as
Agnes Eyre Henkel, Agnes Eyre
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...Read more
Acting
(1923) The Ten Commandments
as The Outcast
(1924) The Story Without a Name
as Mary Walsworth
(1923) Hollywood
as Agnes Ayres
(1929) The Donovan Affair
as Lydia Rankin
(1922) Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
as Self
(1921) The Sheik
as Lady Diana Mayo
(1923) Racing Hearts
as Virginia Kent
(1921) The Affairs of Anatol
as Annie Elliott
(1961) The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
(1926) The Son of the Sheik
as Diana - Wife of the Sheik
(1921) Too Much Speed
as Virginia MacMurran
(1922) Clarence
as Violet Pinney
(1924) The Guilty One
as Irene Short
(1922) The Ordeal
as Sybil Bruce
(1927) Eve's Love Letters
as The wife
(1917) Mrs. Balfame
as Alys Crumley
(1919) Sacred Silence
as Madge Summers
(1942) Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
(1920) Go and Get It
as Helen Allen
(1922) Bought and Paid For
as Virginia Blaine
(1917) The Venturers
as Mary Marsden
(1936) Small Town Girl
as Catherine (uncredited)
(1922) A Daughter of Luxury
as Mary Fenton
(1937) Midnight Taxi
as Society Woman
(1925) Morals for Men
as Bessie Hayes
(1918) A Little Ouija Work
as ---
(1921) Forbidden Fruit
as Mary Maddock
(1924) Detained
as ---
(1920) The Inner Voice
as Barbara
(1927) Life in Hollywood No. 7
as Herself
(1925) Her Market Value
as Nancy Dumont
(1923) The Marriage Maker
as Alexandra Vancy
(1924) Don't Call It Love
as Alice Meldrum
(1921) The Love Special
as Laura Gage
(1925) The Awful Truth
as Lucy Satterlee
(1923) The Heart Raider
as Muriel Gray (a speed girl)
(1921) Cappy Ricks
as Florrie Ricks
(1920) The Furnace
as Folly Valance
(1920) Held by the Enemy
as Rachel Hayne
(1937) Maid of Salem
as Townswoman (Uncredited)
(1917) Motherhood
as The Mother
(1917) The Debt
as The Girl
(1918) Mammon and the Archer
as Helen Lantry
(1922) The Lane That Had No Turning
as Madelinette
(1921) A Modern Salome
as Helen Torrence
(1924) When a Girl Loves
as Sasha Boroff
(1917) The Bottom of the Well
as Alice Buckingham
(1919) The Girl Problem
as Helen Reeves
(1924) Worldly Goods
as Eleanor Lawson