Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 5, 1890
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | The Girl of Gold | Ada Tremaine |
| 1924 | Cheap Kisses | Maybelle Wescott |
| 1919 | The Usurper | Margaret Quentin |
| 1919 | A Man of Honor | Christabel Beaumont |
| 1919 | Children of Banishment | Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie |
| 1918 | The Way of a Man with a Maid | Gladys |
| 1918 | The Still Alarm | Eleanor Fordham |
| 1918 | The City of Purple Dreams | Kathlyn Otis |
| 1917 | Who Shall Take My Life? | Mary Moran |
| 1917 | The Law North of 65 | Jeanne |
| 1917 | Beware of Strangers | Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter |
| 1917 | The Heart of Texas Ryan | Texas Ryan |
| 1916 | Twisted Trails | Sunshine West |
| 1916 | The Crisis | Virginia Carvel |
| 1915 | Lassoing a Lion | Mary Valjon |
| 1915 | His Fighting Blood | Hope McTrigger |
| 1915 | The Primitive Way | Mildred Manning |
| 1915 | The Red Blood of Courage | Lydia Duane |
| 1915 | The Fork in the Road | Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte |
| 1915 | The Great Experiment | Ritta |
| 1915 | The Two Natures Within Him | Mary Bishop |
| 1914 | When the West Was Young | Nellie Halton |
| 1914 | Chip of the Flying U | Dr. Cecil Grantham |
| 1914 | The White Mouse | Jean Silver |
| 1914 | Etienne of the Glad Heart | Marie Le Groux |
| 1914 | The Wilderness Mail | Joan, a Young French-Canadian |
| 1914 | In Defiance of the Law | Isobel Deane |
| 1914 | The Smuggler's Sister | Bessie |
| 1914 | Kid Pink and the Maharajah | |
| 1914 | Shotgun Jones | Sally Lattier - the Daughter |
| 1914 | The Spoilers | Helen Chester |
| 1914 | In the Days of the Thundering Herd | Sally Madison |
| 1913 | Greater Wealth | Mrs. Ed Young |
| 1913 | In the Long Ago | Starlight |
| 1913 | Alone in the Jungle | Helen Brown |
| 1912 | The Mate of the Alden Bessie | The Captain's Daughter |
| 1911 | Kit Carson's Wooing | Lat-to-nick |
| 1911 | Blackbeard | Conchita |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
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