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
(1918)
The Way of a Man with a Maid
as Gladys
(1917)
The Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan
(1917)
Beware of Strangers
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
(1917)
Who Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran
(1917)
The Law North of 65
as Jeanne
(1916)
The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel
(1916)
Twisted Trails
as Sunshine West
(1915)
The Primitive Way
as Mildred Manning
(1915)
His Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger
(1915)
The Red Blood of Courage
as Lydia Duane
(1915)
The Great Experiment
as Ritta
(1915)
The Two Natures Within Him
as Mary Bishop
(1915)
Lassoing a Lion
as Mary Valjon
(1915)
The Fork in the Road
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
(1914)
The Spoilers
as Helen Chester
(1914)
Shotgun Jones
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
(1914)
In Defiance of the Law
as Isobel Deane
(1914)
When the West Was Young
as Nellie Halton
(1914)
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
as Sally Madison
(1914)
(1914)
The White Mouse
as Jean Silver
(1914)
Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
(1914)
The Wilderness Mail
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
(1914)
The Smuggler's Sister
as Bessie
(1914)
Etienne of the Glad Heart
as Marie Le Groux
(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)
Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick
(1911)
Blackbeard
as Conchita
Crew
(1914)
The Smuggler's Sister
Writer