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