Maude Wayne | |
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Born | Maude Lois Wehn March 26, 1890 |
Died | October 10, 1983 (aged 93) Los Angeles, California, US |
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse | Johnnie Walker |
Relatives | Richard Wayne |
Maude Wayne (born Maude Wehn) was an American film actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent film era. [1]
Maude was born in Beatrice, Nebraska, to Louis Wehn and Maria McCathern. She was the youngest of the couple's children, and her brother Richard Wayne also became an actor. [2]
After starting as an extra in Triangle Film productions, she began appearing in Keystone Studios films around 1917, often as one of Mack Sennett's bathing beauties. [3] Following a few years spent in comedies, she later transitioned to heavier, vampier, more dramatic roles at Paramount Pictures, sometimes playing the leading lady to Rudolph Valentino. [4] [5]
She retired from acting in the late 1920s before she married fellow actor Johnnie Walker. [6]
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