{{Short description|American actress (1890–1983)}} {{Infobox person | name = Maude Wayne | image = Maud Wayne, silent film actress (SAYRE 10827).jpg | 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''', March 26, 1890-October 10, 1983) was an American film actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent film era.<ref>{{Cite web|date=17 Aug 1919|title=At the Theatre|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/506752024/?terms=%22maude%20wayne%22&match=1|access-date=2021-04-09|website=Beatrice Daily Sun|language=en}}</ref>
== Biography == 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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brich|first=Monica|date=March 20, 2020|title=Event recognizes silent film stars' Gage County roots|url=https://beatricedailysun.com/news/local/event-recognizes-silent-film-stars-gage-county-roots/article_41f7d5f2-3691-5779-8f95-0d6929d39f1e.html|access-date=2021-04-09|website=Beatrice Daily Sun|language=en}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1 Mar 1917|title=Miss Maude Wayne a Movie Star|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/586090851/?terms=%22maude%20wayne%22&match=1|access-date=2021-04-09|website=The Pawhuska Capital|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|date=12 Dec 1920|title=Maude Wayne Jumps from Sennett Comics to Paramount Films|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/76628472/?terms=%22maude%20wayne%22&match=1|access-date=2021-04-09|website=The Wichita Beacon|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=3 Jan 1921|title=Maude Wayne Is a Blonde Vamp|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/64313600/?terms=%22maude%20wayne%22&match=1|access-date=2021-04-09|website=Vancouver Daily World|language=en}}</ref>
She retired from acting in the late 1920s before she married fellow actor Johnnie Walker.<ref>{{Cite web|date=6 Apr 1928|title=Actor and Bride Flee to Ventura|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/380379660/?terms=%22maude%20wayne%22&match=1|access-date=2021-04-09|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en}}</ref>
==Partial filmography== * ''The Fighting Shepherdess'' (1920) * ''The Fighting Chance'' (1920) * ''Behold My Wife!'' (1920) * ''Risky Business'' (1920) * ''The Lure of Egypt'' (1921) * ''The Mysterious Rider'' (1921) * ''The Gray Dawn'' (1922) * ''Moran of the Lady Letty'' (1922) * ''The Bachelor Daddy'' (1922) * ''Shirley of the Circus'' (1922) * ''The Young Rajah'' (1922) * ''Prodigal Daughters'' (1923) * ''The Song of Love'' (1923) * ''The Silent Partner'' (1923) * ''Alias the Night Wind'' (1923) * ''Hollywood'' (1923) * ''Her Accidental Husband'' (1923) * ''His Forgotten Wife'' (1924) * ''Leap Year'' (1924) * ''When Husbands Flirt'' (1925) * ''Fashions for Women'' (1927) * ''Held by the Law'' (1927)
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0915607}}
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