Bessie Eyton
Birthday: 1890-07-05
Deathday: 1965-01-22
Birthplace: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned
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.
Credits
| Year | Title | Character | |
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1925-02-16 | The Girl of Gold | Ada Tremaine |
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1924-12-21 | Cheap Kisses | Maybelle Wescott |
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1917-12-01 | Who Shall Take My Life? | Mary Moran |
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1917-10-06 | The Law North of 65 | Jeanne |
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1917-02-25 | The Heart of Texas Ryan | Texas Ryan |
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1917-02-10 | Beware of Strangers | Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter |
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1916-12-21 | The Crisis | Virginia Carvel |
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1916-12-11 | Twisted Trails | Sunshine West |
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1915-05-20 | The Two Natures Within Him | Mary Bishop |
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1915-04-19 | The Great Experiment | Ritta |
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1915-03-15 | The Fork in the Road | Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte |
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1915-02-22 | The Red Blood of Courage | Lydia Duane |
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1915-01-23 | The Primitive Way | Mildred Manning |
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1915-01-18 | His Fighting Blood | Hope McTrigger |
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1915-01-02 | Lassoing a Lion | Mary Valjon |
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1914-11-30 | In the Days of the Thundering Herd | Sally Madison |
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1914-09-07 | When the West Was Young | Nellie Halton |
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1914-08-29 | Chip of the Flying U | Dr. Cecil Grantham |
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1914-08-24 | The White Mouse | Jean Silver |
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1914-08-03 | Etienne of the Glad Heart | Marie Le Groux |
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1914-07-13 | The Wilderness Mail | Joan, a Young French-Canadian |
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1914-06-28 | In Defiance of the Law | Isobel Deane |
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1914-04-27 | Shotgun Jones | Sally Lattier - the Daughter |
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1914-04-10 | The Spoilers | Helen Chester |
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1914-03-12 | Kid Pink and the Maharajah | |
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1914-03-03 | The Smuggler's Sister | Bessie |
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1913-06-14 | Alone in the Jungle | Helen Brown |
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1913-05-15 | In the Long Ago | Starlight |
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1913-01-01 | Greater Wealth | Mrs. Ed Young |
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1912-01-04 | The Mate of the Alden Bessie | The Captain's Daughter |
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1911-11-23 | Blackbeard | Conchita |
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1911-09-11 | Kit Carson's Wooing | Lat-to-nick |