Bessie Eyton

Born: 1890-07-05 in Santa Barbara, California, USA

Died: 1965-01-22

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

1925

The Girl of Gold as Ada Tremaine

1924

Cheap Kisses as Maybelle Wescott

1919

A Man of Honor as Christabel Beaumont
Children of Banishment as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
The Usurper as Margaret Quentin

1918

The City of Purple Dreams as Kathlyn Otis
The Still Alarm as Eleanor Fordham
The Way of a Man with a Maid as Gladys

1917

Beware of Strangers as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
Who Shall Take My Life? as Mary Moran
The Heart of Texas Ryan as Texas Ryan
The Law North of 65 as Jeanne

1916

The Crisis as Virginia Carvel
Twisted Trails as Sunshine West

1915

The Red Blood of Courage as Lydia Duane
His Fighting Blood as Hope McTrigger
The Great Experiment as Ritta
The Two Natures Within Him as Mary Bishop
Lassoing a Lion as Mary Valjon
The Primitive Way as Mildred Manning
The Fork in the Road as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte

1914

Shotgun Jones as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
The White Mouse as Jean Silver
Etienne of the Glad Heart as Marie Le Groux
In the Days of the Thundering Herd as Sally Madison
When the West Was Young as Nellie Halton
The Wilderness Mail as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
The Smuggler's Sister as Bessie
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
The Spoilers as Helen Chester
In Defiance of the Law as Isobel Deane
Chip of the Flying U as Dr. Cecil Grantham

1913

In the Long Ago as Starlight
Greater Wealth as Mrs. Ed Young
Alone in the Jungle as Helen Brown

1912

The Mate of the Alden Bessie as The Captain's Daughter

1911

Blackbeard as Conchita
Kit Carson's Wooing as Lat-to-nick