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The Sheik is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky, directed by George Melford, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, and featuring Adolphe Menjou. It was based on the bestselling 1919 romance novel of the same name by Edith Maude Hull and was adapted for the screen by Monte M. Katterjohn .
The Sheik is a 1919 novel by English writer E. M. Hull. It was the first of a series of novels she wrote with desert settings that set off a major revival of the "desert romance" genre of romantic fiction . [ 1 ]
Edith Maud Hull (16 August 1880 – 11 February 1947) was a British writer of romance novels, typically credited as E. M. Hull. [1] [2] She is best known for The Sheik, which became an international best seller in 1921.
Sheikh (/ ʃ eɪ k, ʃ iː k / SHAYK, SHEEK, [1] Arabic: شَيْخ, romanized: shaykh, commonly, plural: شُيُوخ, shuyūkh) [a] is an honorific title in the Arabic language, literally meaning "elder". It commonly designates a tribal chief or a Muslim scholar. Though this title generally refers to men, there are also a small number of ...
English: The Sheik (1921) by George Melford, with English intertitles. Digital transfer based on a print and a fine-grain master. Color is based on tinting and toning notes from an archived continuity script from Paramount Pictures.
The Son of the Sheik (1926). In his final film performance before his death in 1926, Rudolph Valentino tackles two roles, as a father and his son. Ahmed (Rudolph Valentino), the son of an Arab sheik and a kidnapped English gentlewoman (Agnes Ayres), loves local dancing girl Yasmin (Vilma Banky).
The Sheik, a 1921 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, based on the novel; The Son of the Sheik, a 1926 sequel to the earlier film also starring Rudolph Valentino; She's a Sheik, a 1927 film starring Bebe Daniels, based on the novel with a gender-reversed plot "Sheik", a 1973 song on ZZ Top's album Tres Hombres
Edward George Farhat (June 7, 1926 – January 18, 2003) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name The Sheik.In wrestling, Farhat, whose career debuted in 1947, is credited as one of the originators of the hardcore style, is also retroactively called The Original Sheik, mostly to distinguish him from the similarly-named The Iron Sheik who debuted in 1972.