Eileen Dennes
actress
- Birth name:
- Eileen Amhurst Cowen
- Born:
- 1898-02-01, Alverstoke, Hampshire, England, UK
- Died:
- 1991-01-22, Hungerford, Berkshire, England, UK
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Irish stage and film actress Eileen Dennes was born in Dublin in 1898. Began on the stage in the early 1910's. She sailed to America in the mid 1910's, arrived in Hollywood in 1917 and found work at the Empire All Star Film Co and was offered the role as Ethel Fielding in her debut film 'The Unforseen' with Olive Tell she made one more film in Hollywood that same year and decided to find film work in England, Cecil Hepworth offered her a contract and she made her first British film as Rhoda Meredith in 'Sheba' starring Alma Taylor and Gerald Ames in 1919 afterwards Hepworth gave her the chance in starring roles, such as in 'Once Aboard the Lugger' in 1920, 'Mr. Justice Raffles' in 1921 and 'The Pipes of Pan' again with Alma Taylor in 1923. Eileen last film appearance was as Lucy in 'The Squire of Long Hadley' with Brian Aherne for the Stoll Film Co in 1925.
Filmography
In the vault (6)
