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