Actor
Bessie Eyton
136 years · Santa Barbara, California, USA · 25 films
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.
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Filmography 24
The Girl of Gold
1925 · Ada Tremaine
Cheap Kisses
1924 · Maybelle Wescott
The Usurper
1919 · Margaret Quentin
A Man of Honor
1919 · Christabel Beaumont
Children of Banishment
1919 · Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918 · Gladys
The Still Alarm
1918 · Eleanor Fordham
The City of Purple Dreams
1918 · Kathlyn Otis
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917 · Mary Moran
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917 · Texas Ryan
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Beware of Strangers
1917 · Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
The Crisis
1916 · Virginia Carvel
Twisted Trails
1916 · Sunshine West
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914 · Sally Madison
Chip of the Flying U
1914 · Dr. Cecil Grantham
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914 · Marie Le Groux
Shotgun Jones
1914 · Sally Lattier - the Daughter
The Spoilers
1914 · Helen Chester
On Fawesome
The Smuggler's Sister
1914 · Bessie, Writer
Alone in the Jungle
1913 · Helen Brown
In the Long Ago
1913 · Starlight
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912 · The Captain's Daughter
Blackbeard
1911 · Conchita
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911 · Lat-to-nick