Bessie Eyton
Acting
1890-07-05 · Santa Barbara, California, USA
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.
Filmography
The Girl of Gold
1925 · Movie
Cheap Kisses
1924 · Movie
The Usurper
1919 · Movie
A Man of Honor
1919 · Movie
Children of Banishment
1919 · Movie
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918 · Movie
The Still Alarm
1918 · Movie
The City of Purple Dreams
1918 · Movie
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917 · Movie
The Law North of 65
1917 · Movie
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917 · Movie
Beware of Strangers
1917 · Movie
The Crisis
1916 · Movie
Twisted Trails
1916 · Movie
The Two Natures Within Him
1915 · Movie
The Great Experiment
1915 · Movie
The Fork in the Road
1915 · Movie
The Red Blood of Courage
1915 · Movie
The Primitive Way
1915 · Movie
His Fighting Blood
1915 · Movie
Lassoing a Lion
1915 · Movie
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914 · Movie
When the West Was Young
1914 · Movie
Chip of the Flying U
1914 · Movie
The White Mouse
1914 · Movie
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914 · Movie
The Wilderness Mail
1914 · Movie
In Defiance of the Law
1914 · Movie
Shotgun Jones
1914 · Movie
The Spoilers
1914 · Movie
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914 · Movie
The Smuggler's Sister
1914 · Movie
Alone in the Jungle
1913 · Movie
In the Long Ago
1913 · Movie
Greater Wealth
1913 · Movie
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912 · Movie
Blackbeard
1911 · Movie
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911 · Movie
Lend Me Your Name
Movie