Bessie Eyton
Acting
1890-07-05 · Santa Barbara, California, USA
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(39)
movieThe Girl of Gold
as Ada Tremaine · 1925 · 9.0
movieCheap Kisses
as Maybelle Wescott · 1924 · 10.0
movieThe Usurper
as Margaret Quentin · 1919 · 9.0
movieA Man of Honor
as Christabel Beaumont · 1919 · 7.0
movieChildren of Banishment
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie · 1919 · 9.0
movieThe Way of a Man with a Maid
as Gladys · 1918 · 7.0
movieThe Still Alarm
as Eleanor Fordham · 1918 · 0.0
movieThe City of Purple Dreams
as Kathlyn Otis · 1918 · 0.0
movieWho Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran · 1917 · 0.0
movieThe Law North of 65
as Jeanne · 1917 · 8.0
movieThe Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan · 1917 · 3.8
movieBeware of Strangers
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter · 1917 · 0.0
movieThe Crisis
as Virginia Carvel · 1916 · 5.3
movieTwisted Trails
as Sunshine West · 1916 · 5.0
movieThe Two Natures Within Him
as Mary Bishop · 1915 · 7.0
movieThe Great Experiment
as Ritta · 1915 · 9.0
movieThe Fork in the Road
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte · 1915 · 9.0
movieThe Red Blood of Courage
as Lydia Duane · 1915 · 10.0
movieThe Primitive Way
as Mildred Manning · 1915 · 0.0
movieHis Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger · 1915 · 8.0
movieLassoing a Lion
as Mary Valjon · 1915 · 8.0
movieIn the Days of the Thundering Herd
as Sally Madison · 1914 · 0.0
movieWhen the West Was Young
as Nellie Halton · 1914 · 7.0
movieChip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham · 1914 · 0.0