Bessie Eyton
Acting
Born: 1890-07-05 in Santa Barbara, California, USA
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.
Known For
The Crisis
Virginia Carvel
Blackbeard
Conchita
Shotgun Jones
Sally Lattier - the Daughter
Lend Me Your Name
Sophronia
Who Shall Take My Life?
Mary Moran
The Still Alarm
Eleanor Fordham
Beware of Strangers
Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
A Man of Honor
Christabel Beaumont
Cheap Kisses
Maybelle Wescott
Etienne of the Glad Heart
Marie Le Groux
The City of Purple Dreams
Kathlyn Otis
Alone in the Jungle
Helen Brown
The Spoilers
Helen Chester
Children of Banishment
Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Sally Madison
The Way of a Man with a Maid
Gladys
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
The Captain's Daughter
The Smuggler's Sister
Bessie
Chip of the Flying U
Dr. Cecil Grantham
In the Long Ago
Starlight
The Heart of Texas Ryan
Texas Ryan
Twisted Trails
Sunshine West
The Girl of Gold
Ada Tremaine
The Usurper
Margaret Quentin
Kit Carson's Wooing
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