Bessie Eyton
Acting
Born: 1890-07-05 in Santa Barbara, California, USA
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
The Heart of Texas Ryan
Texas Ryan
The Spoilers
Helen Chester
The Crisis
Virginia Carvel
Blackbeard
Conchita
Twisted Trails
Sunshine West
Cheap Kisses
Maybelle Wescott
The Girl of Gold
Ada Tremaine
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
The Captain's Daughter
Alone in the Jungle
Helen Brown
The Way of a Man with a Maid
Gladys
The Usurper
Margaret Quentin
A Man of Honor
Christabel Beaumont
Children of Banishment
Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
Who Shall Take My Life?
Mary Moran
Kit Carson's Wooing
Lat-to-nick
Chip of the Flying U
Dr. Cecil Grantham
Etienne of the Glad Heart
Marie Le Groux
The Smuggler's Sister
Bessie
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Shotgun Jones
Sally Lattier - the Daughter
In the Long Ago
Starlight
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Sally Madison
Beware of Strangers
Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
The Still Alarm
Eleanor Fordham
The City of Purple Dreams
Kathlyn Otis
Lend Me Your Name
Sophronia