Bessie Eyton
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
0Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
Blackbeard
1911
0Shotgun Jones
1914
The Crisis
1916
Greater Wealth
1913
0In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
0The City of Purple Dreams
1918
Cheap Kisses
1924
0Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914
0In the Long Ago
1913
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912
In Defiance of the Law
1914
Filmography
Who Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran · 1917
Blackbeard
as Conchita · 1911
Shotgun Jones
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter · 1914
The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel · 1916
Greater Wealth
as Mrs. Ed Young · 1913
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
as Sally Madison · 1914
The City of Purple Dreams
as Kathlyn Otis · 1918
Cheap Kisses
as Maybelle Wescott · 1924
Etienne of the Glad Heart
as Marie Le Groux · 1914
In the Long Ago
as Starlight · 1913
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
as The Captain's Daughter · 1912
In Defiance of the Law
as Isobel Deane · 1914
Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham · 1914
When the West Was Young
as Nellie Halton · 1914
Alone in the Jungle
as Helen Brown · 1913
Lend Me Your Name
as Sophronia
The Way of a Man with a Maid
as Gladys · 1918
A Man of Honor
as Christabel Beaumont · 1919
The Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan · 1917
The Smuggler's Sister
as Bessie · 1914
The Red Blood of Courage
as Lydia Duane · 1915
The Girl of Gold
as Ada Tremaine · 1925
Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick · 1911
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
· 1914
The Law North of 65
as Jeanne · 1917
Children of Banishment
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie · 1919
The Still Alarm
as Eleanor Fordham · 1918
The Two Natures Within Him
as Mary Bishop · 1915
The Wilderness Mail
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian · 1914
The Spoilers
as Helen Chester · 1914
The Great Experiment
as Ritta · 1915
Beware of Strangers
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter · 1917
The Fork in the Road
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte · 1915
Lassoing a Lion
as Mary Valjon · 1915
The White Mouse
as Jean Silver · 1914
Twisted Trails
as Sunshine West · 1916
The Primitive Way
as Mildred Manning · 1915
The Usurper
as Margaret Quentin · 1919
His Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger · 1915