Bessie Eyton

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1890-07-05

Place of Birth

Santa Barbara, California, USA
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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.

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Acting History

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