Bessie Eyton
Acting
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
Acting39
movieThe Girl of Gold
1925
Ada Tremaine
movieCheap Kisses
1924
Maybelle Wescott
movieThe Usurper
1919
Margaret Quentin
movieA Man of Honor
1919
Christabel Beaumont
movieChildren of Banishment
1919
Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
movieThe Still Alarm
1918
Eleanor Fordham
movieThe City of Purple Dreams
1918
Kathlyn Otis
movieWho Shall Take My Life?
1917
Mary Moran
movieThe Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
Texas Ryan
movieBeware of Strangers
1917
Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
movieThe Crisis
1916
Virginia Carvel
movieTwisted Trails
1916
Sunshine West
The Fork in the Road
1915
Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
The Primitive Way
1915
Mildred Manning
His Fighting Blood
1915
Hope McTrigger
Lassoing a Lion
1915
Mary Valjon
movieIn the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
Sally Madison
movieChip of the Flying U
1914
Dr. Cecil Grantham
The White Mouse
1914
Jean Silver
movieEtienne of the Glad Heart
1914
Marie Le Groux
The Wilderness Mail
1914
Joan, a Young French-Canadian
movieShotgun Jones
1914
Sally Lattier - the Daughter
movieThe Spoilers
1914
Helen Chester
movieAlone in the Jungle
1913
Helen Brown
movieIn the Long Ago
1913
Starlight
Greater Wealth
1913
Mrs. Ed Young
movieThe Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912
The Captain's Daughter
movieBlackbeard
1911
Conchita
movieKit Carson's Wooing
1911
Lat-to-nick
movieLend Me Your Name
Sophronia