Bessie Eyton
Known for: Acting
Born: July 4, 1890 in Santa Barbara, California, USA - Died: January 21, 1965
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
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Who Shall Take My Life?
Mary Moran
The Law North of 65
Jeanne
Twisted Trails
Sunshine West
Kit Carson's Wooing
Lat-to-nick
When the West Was Young
Nellie Halton
Chip of the Flying U
Dr. Cecil Grantham
The White Mouse
Jean Silver
Greater Wealth
Mrs. Ed Young
Etienne of the Glad Heart
Marie Le Groux
The Wilderness Mail
Joan, a Young French-Canadian
In Defiance of the Law
Isobel Deane
The Smuggler's Sister
Bessie
Cheap Kisses
Maybelle Wescott
Lassoing a Lion
Mary Valjon
His Fighting Blood
Hope McTrigger
The Primitive Way
Mildred Manning
The Red Blood of Courage
Lydia Duane
The Fork in the Road
Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
The Great Experiment
Ritta
The Two Natures Within Him
Mary Bishop
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Shotgun Jones
Sally Lattier - the Daughter
The Girl of Gold
Ada Tremaine
In the Long Ago
Starlight