Bessie Eyton

Known For

Acting

Born

Jul 05, 1890

Died

Jan 22, 1965

Place of Birth

Santa Barbara, California, USA

Credits

39 titles

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

1925

The Girl of Gold

Ada Tremaine

Movie
1924

Cheap Kisses

Maybelle Wescott

Movie
1919

The Usurper

Margaret Quentin

Movie
1919

A Man of Honor

Christabel Beaumont

Movie
1919

Children of Banishment

Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie

Movie
1918

The Way of a Man with a Maid

Gladys

Movie
1918

The Still Alarm

Eleanor Fordham

Movie
1918

The City of Purple Dreams

Kathlyn Otis

Movie
1917

Who Shall Take My Life?

Mary Moran

Movie
1917

The Law North of 65

Jeanne

Movie
1917

The Heart of Texas Ryan

Texas Ryan

Movie
1917

Beware of Strangers

Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

Movie
1916

The Crisis

Virginia Carvel

Movie
1916

Twisted Trails

Sunshine West

Movie
1915

The Two Natures Within Him

Mary Bishop

Movie
1915

The Great Experiment

Ritta

Movie
1915

The Fork in the Road

Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte

Movie
1915

The Red Blood of Courage

Lydia Duane

Movie
1915

The Primitive Way

Mildred Manning

Movie
1915

His Fighting Blood

Hope McTrigger

Movie
1915

Lassoing a Lion

Mary Valjon

Movie
1914

In the Days of the Thundering Herd

Sally Madison

Movie
1914

When the West Was Young

Nellie Halton

Movie
1914

Chip of the Flying U

Dr. Cecil Grantham

Movie
1914

The White Mouse

Jean Silver

Movie
1914

Etienne of the Glad Heart

Marie Le Groux

Movie
1914

The Wilderness Mail

Joan, a Young French-Canadian

Movie
1914

In Defiance of the Law

Isobel Deane

Movie
1914

Shotgun Jones

Sally Lattier - the Daughter

Movie
1914

The Spoilers

Helen Chester

Movie
1914

Kid Pink and the Maharajah

Movie
1914

The Smuggler's Sister

Bessie

Movie
1913

Alone in the Jungle

Helen Brown

Movie
1913

In the Long Ago

Starlight

Movie
1913

Greater Wealth

Mrs. Ed Young

Movie
1912

The Mate of the Alden Bessie

The Captain's Daughter

Movie
1911

Blackbeard

Conchita

Movie
1911

Kit Carson's Wooing

Lat-to-nick

Movie
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Lend Me Your Name

Sophronia

Movie