Maude Wayne | |
Birth Name: | Maude Lois Wehn |
Birth Date: | March 26, 1890 |
Birth Place: | Beatrice, Nebraska, US |
Death Date: | October 10, 1983 (aged 93) |
Death Place: | 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]