Agnes Herring (February 4, 1876 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1939.
She was born in
San Francisco
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and died in
Santa Monica, California
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.
Partial filmography
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The Vagabond Prince
''The Vagabond Prince'' is a 1916 silent film directed by Charles Giblyn and starring H. B. Warner and Dorothy Dalton. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and distributed by Triangle.
Cast
* H. B. Warner - Prince Torio
* Dorothy Dalton - Lola " ...
'' (1916)
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The Crab'' (1917)
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Madcap Madge
''Madcap Madge'' is a 1917 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Raymond B. West and starring Olive Thomas, Charles Gunn, Dorcas Matthews, Aggie Herring, and Jack Livingston. The film was released by Triangle Film Corporation on June 24, ...
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Wee Lady Betty
''Wee Lady Betty'' is a 1917 American silent film, silent drama film produced and distributed by the Triangle Film Corporation. It was directed by Charles Miller (director), Charles Miller and stars Bessie Love, Frank Borzage, and Charles K. Fren ...
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The Snarl
''The Snarl'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Raymond B. West and starring Bessie Barriscale, Charles Gunn and Howard Hickman.Connelly p.412 The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Brunton.
Cast
* Bessie Bar ...
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The Millionaire Vagrant
''The Millionaire Vagrant'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Charles Ray, Sylvia Breamer and J. Barney Sherry.Golden p.32
Cast
* Charles Ray as Steven Du Peyster
* Sylvia Breamer as Ruth Vail ...
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Within the Cup
''Within the Cup'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Raymond B. West and starring Bessie Barriscale, George Fisher and Edward Coxen.Slide p.82
Cast
* Bessie Barriscale as Thisbe Lorraine
* George Fisher as Le Saint Hammond
* Ed ...
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Cupid Forecloses
''Cupid Forecloses'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film starring Bessie Love and Wallace MacDonald. It was directed by David Smith and produced by Vitagraph Studios. It was based on the popular novel ''Hurrying Fate and Geraldine'' by Flo ...
'' (1919)
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A Yankee Princess
''A Yankee Princess'' is a 1919 American silent film, silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It was directed by David Smith (director), David Smith and stars Bessie Love, who also wrote the screenpl ...
'' (1919)
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A Man's Fight
''A Man's Fight'' is a lost 1919 American silent drama film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and starring Dustin Farnum and Lois Wilson.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, wealthy clubman Roger Carr (Farnum) assumes responsibility for a murder ...
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The Lord Loves the Irish
''The Lord Loves the Irish'' is a 1919 American silent film, silent comedy film directed by Ernest C. Warde and starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Aggie Herring and James O. Barrows.Gmür p.381
Cast
* J. Warren Kerrigan as Miles Machree
* Aggie Herring ...
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The Hoodlum'' (1919)
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A Girl Named Mary
''A Girl Named Mary'' is a 1919 American silent romantic drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Walter Edwards, the film is based on the novel of the same name by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins ...
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Todd of the Times
''Todd of the Times'' is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Eliot Howe and starring Frank Keenan, Charles A. Post, and Aggie Herring
Agnes Herring (February 4, 1876 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress. She a ...
'' (1919)
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Daredevil Jack
''Daredevil Jack'' is a 1920 American silent 15-chapter action film serial directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and featuring Lon Chaney as a villain. The chapters were shown weekly between February and Ma ...
'' (1920)
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The Sagebrusher
''The Sagebrusher'' is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Roy Stewart, Marguerite De La Motte and Noah Beery.Goble p.229
Cast
* Roy Stewart as Dr. Barnes
* Marguerite De La Motte as Mary Warren
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'' (1920)
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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' (1920)
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Hairpins'' (1920)
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Big Happiness'' (1920)
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The Dream Cheater'' (1920)
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The Dwelling Place of Light'' (1920)
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Among Those Present
''Among Those Present'' is a 1921 American "three-reeler" silent comedy film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis and Mary Pickford .
Plot
Mrs. O'Brien (Herring) is eager to be accepted as part of high societ ...
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The Lure of Egypt
''The Lure of Egypt'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Howard C. Hickman and starring Robert McKim, Claire Adams and Joseph J. Dowling.Munden p.468
Plot
‘’The Lure of Egypt’’ is an adaptation of the novel ‘’There ...
'' (1921)
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The Mysterious Rider'' (1921)
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Queenie'' (1921)
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Oliver Twist
''Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress'', Charles Dickens's second novel, was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Born in a workhouse, the orphan Oliver Twist is bound into apprenticeship with ...
'' (1922)
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A Blind Bargain
''A Blind Bargain'' is a 1922 American silent horror film starring Lon Chaney and Raymond McKee, released through Goldwyn Pictures. The film was directed by Wallace Worsley and is based on Barry Pain's 1897 novel ''The Octave of Claudius''. Lo ...
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Heart's Haven
''Heart's Haven'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Benjamin B. Hampton and starring Robert McKim, Claire Adams and Carl Gantvoort.Munden p.64
Cast
* Robert McKim as Adam Breed
* Claire Adams as Vivian Breed
* Carl Gantvoort ...
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The Ragged Heiress
''The Ragged Heiress'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Shirley Mason, John Harron and Edwin Stevens.Parish & Pitts p.22
Cast
* Shirley Mason as Lucia Moreton
* John Harron as Glen Wharton
* Edwin ...
'' (1922)
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The Isle of Lost Ships'' (1923)
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What a Wife Learned'' (1923)
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Let's Go'' (1923)
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The Brass Bottle'' (1923)
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The Age of Desire
''The Age of Desire'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Josef Swickard, William Collier Jr., and Mary Philbin. It was distributed through Associated First National Pictures.
Plot
As described in a fil ...
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Pioneer Trails
''Pioneer Trails'' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by David Smith and starring Cullen Landis, Alice Calhoun, and Bertram Grassby
Bertram Grassby (23 December 1880 – 7 December 1953) was an English actor. He appeared i ...
'' (1923)
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The Silent Watcher
''The Silent Watcher'' is a lost 1924 American silent melodrama film directed by Frank Lloyd. It stars Glenn Hunter and Bessie Love. It was produced by Frank Lloyd Productions/ First National and distributed by First National Pictures. It was ...
'' (1924)
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Wine of Youth
''Wine of Youth'' is a 1924 American silent comedy drama film directed by King Vidor, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, shortly after the merger which created MGM in April 1924. Vidor did not consider it important enough to mention in his aut ...
'' (1924)
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Any Woman
''Any Woman'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Henry King and written by Randolph Bartlett, Jules Furthman, Arthur Somers Roche and Beatrice Van. The film stars Alice Terry, Donald Reed, Margarita Fischer, Lawson Butt, Aggie ...
'' (1925)
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Pampered Youth
''Pampered Youth'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by David Smith and starring Cullen Landis, Alice Calhoun, and Allan Forrest. It is an adaption of the 1918 novel ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' by Booth Tarkington. It was one of ...
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Peacock Feathers
''Peacock Feathers'' is a 1925 American drama film directed by Svend Gade and written by James O. Spearing and Svend Gade. It is based on a 1924 novel of the same name by Temple Bailey. The film stars Jacqueline Logan, Cullen Landis, Ward Cr ...
'' (1925)
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Sally, Irene and Mary'' (1925)
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The Frontier Trail
''The Frontier Trail'' is a lost 1926 American silent Western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Harry Carey.
Plot
Cast
* Harry Carey - Jim Cardigan
* Mabel Julienne Scott - Dolly Mainard
* Ernest Hilliard - Captain Blackwell
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'' (1926)
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Watch Your Wife
''Watch Your Wife'' is a 1926 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Svend Gade and starring Virginia Valli, Pat O'Malley and Nat Carr.Langman p.264
Cast
* Virginia Valli as Claudia Langham
* Pat O'Malley as James Langham
* Nat ...
'' (1926)
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Kosher Kitty Kelly'' (1926)
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Sweet Daddies'' (1926)
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Twinkletoes
''Twinkletoes'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent romantic drama film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Colleen Moore. The film, as with most of Moore's vehicles at this time, was produced by her husband John McCormick (producer), Jo ...
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Loco Luck
''Loco Luck'' is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and written by Doris Malloy and Isadore Bernstein. The film stars Art Acord, Fay Wray, Aggie Herring, William Steele, Al Jennings and George F. Marion. The fi ...
'' (1927)
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Finnegan's Ball
''Finnegan's Ball'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by James P. Hogan and starring Blanche Mehaffey, Mack Swain and Cullen Landis. It is based on an 1894 Broadway play of the same title.Munden p.246
Synopsis
The Finnegan family ...
'' (1927)
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The Gorilla'' (1927)
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The Princess from Hoboken
''The Princess from Hoboken'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Allen Dale and featuring Boris Karloff. This is now considered to be a lost film.
Cast
* Edmund Burns as Terence O'Brien
* Blanche Mehaffey as Sheila O'Toole
* Eth ...
'' (1927)
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Mother Machree
''Mother Machree'' is a 1928 American silent drama film, directed by John Ford, based on the 1924 work ''The Story of Mother Machree'' by Rida Johnson Young about a poor Irish immigrant in America. Rida Johnson Young had invented Mother Machr ...
'' (1928)
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Lady Be Good'' (1928)
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Do Your Duty'' (1928)
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The Head of the Family'' (1928)
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Dark Streets'' (1929)
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Smiling Irish Eyes
''Smiling Irish Eyes'' (1929) is a Vitaphone American pre-Code musical film with Technicolor sequences. The film is now considered a lost film. However, the Vitaphone discs still exist.
Plot
Rory O'More leaves his sweetheart Kathleen O'Connor ba ...
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In the Next Room
''In The Next Room'' is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery film released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. and directed by Edward F. Cline. The movie stars Jack Mulhall and Alice Day. The film was based on the play of the ...
'' (1930)
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Clancy in Wall Street
''Clancy in Wall Street'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film. It stars Charles Murray, who had made a number of films for Edward Small.
It was also known as ''Clancy Caught Short'' and was described as the first comedy about the stock mark ...
'' (1930)
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Kathleen Mavourneen'' (1930)
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Broadway Babies
''Broadway Babies'', aka ''Broadway Daddies'' (UK) and ''Ragazze d'America'' (Italy), is a 1929 talkie, all-talking Pre-Code Hollywood, Pre-Code black and white American musical film produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a subsidi ...
'' (1930)
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Meet the Wife'' (1931)
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Green Eyes'' (1934)
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The Quitter'' (1934)
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Stolen Sweets'' (1934)
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The Curtain Falls
''The Curtain Falls'' (german: Der Vorhang fällt) is a 1939 German crime film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Anneliese Uhlig, Elfie Mayerhofer and Hilde Sessak. It was based on a play by Paul van der Hurck and was made by UFA at the com ...
'' (1934)
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Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad is an antihero/supervillain team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first version of the Suicide Squad debuted in ''The Brave and the Bold'' #25 (September 1959) and the second and modern version, cre ...
'' (1935)
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The Man in Blue'' (1937)
References
External links
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1876 births
1939 deaths
20th-century American actresses
Actresses from San Francisco
American film actresses
American silent film actresses
Western (genre) film actresses