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Agnes Gavin (1872–1947) was an Australian actor and screenwriter in the silent film era, she worked in collaboration with her husband John Gavin throughout her career. She wrote the majority of his films and was arguably the first specialist screenwriter in the history of the Australian film industry. In newspapers she was advertised as the "well known picture dramatizer" and was praised for creating "cleverly constructed stories".

Personal life
She was born as Agnes Adele Wangenheim. At the age of eighteen she married Barnett Kurtz, however they divorced in 1897 in a highly publicized case.

On October 3, 1898, she married stage actor John Gavin, for many years they worked together in Vaudeville and Bland Holt's stage company.

In 1904, Agnes Gavin was accused of abusing her neighbour with violent language. The court ordered her bound to the peace for six months.

In an early marriage she had a daughter named Isadore, she later died in 1917. John Gavin died in 1938 and Agnes followed in 1947. The couple is survived by two daughters and several grandchildren.

Career
In 1910, Gavin and her husband made their first film together. The pair were best known for making films about bushrangers such as Captain Thunderbolt, Captain Moonlite, Ben Hall and Frank Gardiner, and convict-era melodramas.

She adapted her 1917 film The Murder of Captain Fryatt into a play: Captain Fryatt; Or, For King and Country.

Filmography

 * Thunderbolt (1910)
 * Moonlite (1910) (also known as: Captain Moonlite)
 * Ben Hall and his Gang (1911)
 * Frank Gardiner, the King of the Road (1911)
 * Keane of Kalgoorlie (1911)
 * The Mark of the Lash (1911)
 * The Drover's Sweetheart (1911)
 * Assigned to his Wife (1911)
 * The Assigned Servant (1911)
 * An Interrupted Divorce (1916)
 * Charlie at the Sydney Show (1916)
 * The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell (1916)
 * The Murder of Captain Fryatt (1917)
 * His Convict Bride (1918) (also known as: For the Term of Her Natural Life)
 * Trooper O'Brien (1928) (originally The Key of Fate )

Scripts

 * The White Hope (announced 1911)
 * Outlaw Ned Kelly and His Gang (registered in 1918)
 * Binda's Mistress of the Girl of the Soil (registered in 1930)

Books

 * Golden Heart, or Odds On (1923)
 * Money Down Brown (1926)

Plays

 * Captain Fryatt; or, for king and country : dramatised from the scenario (1917)