Bessie Eyton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 5, 1890
- Died
- January 22, 1965 (aged 74)
- Birthplace
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
Biography
Bessie starred in at least 200 melodrama, action westerns and crime films. In the 1910 she was visiting the Selig Film studios with a party of friends, when a director saw and liked her red hair because he said it would photograph a beautiful black, so he offered her a minor role, she had no formal training on stage, as did many early film actors, she was talented and soon rose to be one of Selig's most popular stars.
Known For
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Filmography
Lend Me Your Name
Movie · as Sophronia
The Girl of Gold
Movie · as Ada Tremaine
Cheap Kisses
Movie · as Maybelle Wescott
The Usurper
Movie · as Margaret Quentin
A Man of Honor
Movie · as Christabel Beaumont
Children of Banishment
Movie · as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
The Way of a Man with a Maid
Movie · as Gladys
The Still Alarm
Movie · as Eleanor Fordham
The City of Purple Dreams
Movie · as Kathlyn Otis
Who Shall Take My Life?
Movie · as Mary Moran
The Law North of 65
Movie · as Jeanne
Beware of Strangers
Movie · as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
The Heart of Texas Ryan
Movie · as Texas Ryan
Twisted Trails
Movie · as Sunshine West
The Crisis
Movie · as Virginia Carvel
Lassoing a Lion
Movie · as Mary Valjon
The Primitive Way
Movie · as Mildred Manning
The Red Blood of Courage
Movie · as Lydia Duane
His Fighting Blood
Movie · as Hope McTrigger
The Fork in the Road
Movie · as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
The Great Experiment
Movie · as Ritta
The Two Natures Within Him
Movie · as Mary Bishop
Chip of the Flying U
Movie · as Dr. Cecil Grantham
The White Mouse
Movie · as Jean Silver
When the West Was Young
Movie · as Nellie Halton
Etienne of the Glad Heart
Movie · as Marie Le Groux
The Wilderness Mail
Movie · as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
In Defiance of the Law
Movie · as Isobel Deane
The Smuggler's Sister
Movie · as Bessie
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Movie
Shotgun Jones
Movie · as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
The Spoilers
Movie · as Helen Chester
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Movie · as Sally Madison
Greater Wealth
Movie · as Mrs. Ed Young
In the Long Ago
Movie · as Starlight
Alone in the Jungle
Movie · as Helen Brown
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Movie · as The Captain's Daughter
Kit Carson's Wooing
Movie · as Lat-to-nick
Blackbeard
Movie · as Conchita