Bessie Eyton
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1890-07-05
Day of Death
1965-01-22 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Santa Barbara, California, USA
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
Acting
(1925)
The Girl of Gold
as Ada Tremaine
(1924)
Cheap Kisses
as Maybelle Wescott
(1919)
The Usurper
as Margaret Quentin
(1918)
The Way of a Man with a Maid
as Gladys
(1917)
Who Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran
(1917)
The Law North of 65
as Jeanne
(1917)
Beware of Strangers
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
(1917)
The Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan
(1916)
The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel
(1916)
Twisted Trails
as Sunshine West
(1915)
The Fork in the Road
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
(1915)
Lassoing a Lion
as Mary Valjon
(1915)
The Great Experiment
as Ritta
(1915)
The Red Blood of Courage
as Lydia Duane
(1915)
The Primitive Way
as Mildred Manning
(1915)
The Two Natures Within Him
as Mary Bishop
(1915)
His Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger
(1914)
The Spoilers
as Helen Chester
(1914)
The Wilderness Mail
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
(1914)
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
as Sally Madison
(1914)
Shotgun Jones
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
(1914)
The Smuggler's Sister
as Bessie
(1914)
Etienne of the Glad Heart
as Marie Le Groux
(1914)
The White Mouse
as Jean Silver
(1914)
When the West Was Young
as Nellie Halton
(1914)
(1914)
In Defiance of the Law
as Isobel Deane
(1914)
Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
(1913)
Greater Wealth
as Mrs. Ed Young
(1913)
In the Long Ago
as Starlight
(1913)
Alone in the Jungle
as Helen Brown
(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
Crew
(1914)
The Smuggler's Sister
Writer