Bessie Eyton
Acting • Born 1890-07-05 – Died 1965-01-22
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.
Filmography
38 credits
Who Shall Take My Life?
Movie • 1917
Mary Moran
The Law North of 65
Movie • 1917
Jeanne
Twisted Trails
Movie • 1916
Sunshine West
Kit Carson's Wooing
Movie • 1911
Lat-to-nick
When the West Was Young
Movie • 1914
Nellie Halton
Chip of the Flying U
Movie • 1914
Dr. Cecil Grantham
The White Mouse
Movie • 1914
Jean Silver
Etienne of the Glad Heart
Movie • 1914
Marie Le Groux
Greater Wealth
Movie • 1913
Mrs. Ed Young
The Wilderness Mail
Movie • 1914
Joan, a Young French-Canadian
In Defiance of the Law
Movie • 1914
Isobel Deane
The Smuggler's Sister
Movie • 1914
Bessie
Cheap Kisses
Movie • 1924
Maybelle Wescott
Lassoing a Lion
Movie • 1915
Mary Valjon
His Fighting Blood
Movie • 1915
Hope McTrigger
The Red Blood of Courage
Movie • 1915
Lydia Duane
The Primitive Way
Movie • 1915
Mildred Manning
The Fork in the Road
Movie • 1915
Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
The Great Experiment
Movie • 1915
Ritta
The Two Natures Within Him
Movie • 1915
Mary Bishop
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Movie • 1914
Shotgun Jones
Movie • 1914
Sally Lattier - the Daughter
The Girl of Gold
Movie • 1925
Ada Tremaine
In the Long Ago
Movie • 1913
Starlight
Blackbeard
Movie • 1911
Conchita
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Movie • 1912
The Captain's Daughter
The Spoilers
Movie • 1914
Helen Chester
Alone in the Jungle
Movie • 1913
Helen Brown
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Movie • 1914
Sally Madison
The Crisis
Movie • 1916
Virginia Carvel
Beware of Strangers
Movie • 1917
Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
The Heart of Texas Ryan
Movie • 1917
Texas Ryan
The Way of a Man with a Maid
Movie • 1918
Gladys
The Usurper
Movie • 1919
Margaret Quentin
The Still Alarm
Movie • 1918
Eleanor Fordham
The City of Purple Dreams
Movie • 1918
Kathlyn Otis
A Man of Honor
Movie • 1919
Christabel Beaumont
Children of Banishment
Movie • 1919
Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie