Frank Mayo

• Born: 1886
• Died: Jul 09, 1963 in Laguna Beach, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '20s-'40s
• Major Genres: Drama, Crime
• Career Highlights: Perfect Flapper, Alias the Bad Man, Souls for Sale
• First Major Screen Credit: The Brute Breaker (1919)

Biography

Silent film star Frank Mayo was in movies as early as 1913 when he began a long association with the World Film Company of New Jersey; later he was most closely linked with Universal Pictures. Equally impressive in a dinner jacket or rugged outdoor garb, Mayo was a dependable strong-and-stalwart hero in such Hollywood films as The Brute Breaker (19), Afraid to Fight (22) and Souls for Sale (23). Toward the end of the silent era, Mayo married actress Dagmar Godowsky, whose star began ascending even as her husband's eclipsed; the marriage was annulled in 1928. Confined to bit and extra roles in the 1930s and 1940s, Frank Mayo was frequently hired by producer Jack Warner and director Cecil B. DeMille, both of whom regularly employed the faded stars of the silent years; Mayo's final appearance was in DeMille's Samson and Delilah (49). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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