Bessie Eyton
Department: 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.
Known For
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
The Law North of 65
1917
Twisted Trails
1916
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911
When the West Was Young
1914
Chip of the Flying U
1914
The White Mouse
1914
Greater Wealth
1913
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914
The Wilderness Mail
1914
In Defiance of the Law
1914
The Smuggler's Sister
1914
Cheap Kisses
1924
Lassoing a Lion
1915
His Fighting Blood
1915
The Primitive Way
1915
The Red Blood of Courage
1915
The Fork in the Road
1915
The Great Experiment
1915
The Two Natures Within Him
1915
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914
Shotgun Jones
1914
The Girl of Gold
1925
In the Long Ago
1913
Blackbeard
1911
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912
The Spoilers
1914
Alone in the Jungle
1913
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
The Crisis
1916
Beware of Strangers
1917
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918
The Usurper
1919
The Still Alarm
1918
The City of Purple Dreams
1918
A Man of Honor
1919
Children of Banishment
1919