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
- Children of Banishment as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
- A Man of Honor as Christabel Beaumont
- The Usurper as Margaret Quentin
1918
- The City of Purple Dreams as Kathlyn Otis
- The Way of a Man with a Maid as Gladys
- The Still Alarm as Eleanor Fordham
1917
- Who Shall Take My Life? as Mary Moran
- The Heart of Texas Ryan as Texas Ryan
- Beware of Strangers as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
- 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
- The Two Natures Within Him as Mary Bishop
- The Great Experiment as Ritta
- Lassoing a Lion as Mary Valjon
- His Fighting Blood as Hope McTrigger
- 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
- In the Days of the Thundering Herd as Sally Madison
- Etienne of the Glad Heart as Marie Le Groux
- Chip of the Flying U as Dr. Cecil Grantham
- Kid Pink and the Maharajah
- In Defiance of the Law as Isobel Deane
- The Smuggler's Sister as Bessie
- When the West Was Young as Nellie Halton
- The Wilderness Mail as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
- The Spoilers as Helen Chester
- The White Mouse as Jean Silver
1913
- Greater Wealth as Mrs. Ed Young
- In the Long Ago as Starlight
- 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