Bessie Eyton
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.
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- Born:
- Jul 5, 1890 In Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 32
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Kit Carson's Wooing 1911-09-11
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Girl of Gold 1925-02-16
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Girl of Gold | Ada Tremaine | 1925-02-16 |
| Movie | Cheap Kisses | Maybelle Wescott | 1924-12-21 |
| Movie | The Heart of Texas Ryan | Texas Ryan | 1917-02-25 |
| Movie | Beware of Strangers | Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter | 1917-02-10 |
| Movie | Who Shall Take My Life? | Mary Moran | 1917-12-01 |
| Movie | The Law North of 65 | Jeanne | 1917-10-06 |
| Movie | Twisted Trails | Sunshine West | 1916-12-11 |
| Movie | The Crisis | Virginia Carvel | 1916-12-21 |
| Movie | His Fighting Blood | Hope McTrigger | 1915-01-18 |
| Movie | The Primitive Way | Mildred Manning | 1915-01-23 |
| Movie | Lassoing a Lion | 1915-01-02 | |
| Movie | The Great Experiment | Ritta | 1915-04-19 |
| Movie | The Red Blood of Courage | Lydia Duane | 1915-02-22 |
| Movie | The Two Natures Within Him | Mary Bishop | 1915-05-20 |
| Movie | The Fork in the Road | Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte | 1915-03-15 |
| Movie | Shotgun Jones | Sally Lattier - the Daughter | 1914-04-27 |
| Movie | The Spoilers | Helen Chester | 1914-04-10 |
| Movie | The Smuggler's Sister | Bessie | 1914-03-03 |
| Movie | In Defiance of the Law | Isobel Deane | 1914-06-28 |
| Movie | Kid Pink and the Maharajah | 1914-03-12 | |
| Movie | In the Days of the Thundering Herd | Sally Madison | 1914-11-30 |
| Movie | When the West Was Young | Nellie Halton | 1914-09-07 |
| Movie | The Wilderness Mail | Joan, a Young French-Canadian | 1914-07-13 |
| Movie | Chip of the Flying U | Dr. Cecil Grantham | 1914-08-29 |
| Movie | The White Mouse | Jean Silver | 1914-08-24 |
| Movie | Etienne of the Glad Heart | Marie Le Groux | 1914-08-03 |
| Movie | Greater Wealth | Mrs. Ed Young | 1913-01-01 |
| Movie | Alone in the Jungle | Helen Brown | 1913-06-14 |
| Movie | In the Long Ago | Starlight | 1913-05-15 |
| Movie | The Mate of the Alden Bessie | The Captain's Daughter | 1912-01-04 |
| Movie | Kit Carson's Wooing | Lat-to-nick | 1911-09-11 |
| Movie | Blackbeard | Conchita | 1911-11-23 |