Bessie Eyton
1890-07-05 (1890)Santa Barbara, California, USAActing
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
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
MOVIE • 1912
The Crisis
MOVIE • 1916
The Still Alarm
MOVIE • 1918
Shotgun Jones
MOVIE • 1914
Who Shall Take My Life?
MOVIE • 1917
Beware of Strangers
MOVIE • 1917
Cheap Kisses
MOVIE • 1924
The City of Purple Dreams
MOVIE • 1918
In the Long Ago
MOVIE • 1913
Twisted Trails
MOVIE • 1916
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
MOVIE • 1914
The Way of a Man with a Maid
MOVIE • 1918
The Heart of Texas Ryan
MOVIE • 1917
The Spoilers
MOVIE • 1914
The Girl of Gold
MOVIE • 1925
Blackbeard
MOVIE • 1911
Chip of the Flying U
MOVIE • 1914
Alone in the Jungle
MOVIE • 1913