Bessie Eyton
Known for ActingBorn 1890-07-05 — died 1965-01-22Santa 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.
Known for
The Crisis
1916 · as Virginia Carvel
Blackbeard
1911 · as Conchita
Shotgun Jones
1914 · as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
In the Long Ago
1913 · as Starlight
The City of Purple Dreams
1918 · as Kathlyn Otis
The White Mouse
1914 · as Jean Silver
Cheap Kisses
1924 · as Maybelle Wescott
The Still Alarm
1918 · as Eleanor Fordham
Greater Wealth
1913 · as Mrs. Ed Young
The Red Blood of Courage
1915 · as Lydia Duane
Beware of Strangers
1917 · as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
His Fighting Blood
1915 · as Hope McTrigger
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914 · as Marie Le Groux
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914 · as Sally Madison
When the West Was Young
1914 · as Nellie Halton
Lend Me Your Name
as Sophronia
The Great Experiment
1915 · as Ritta
The Wilderness Mail
1914 · as Joan, a Young French-Canadian