Bessie Eyton
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Who Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran
1917
The Law North of 65
as Jeanne
1917
Twisted Trails
as Sunshine West
1916
Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick
1911
When the West Was Young
as Nellie Halton
1914
Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
1914
The White Mouse
as Jean Silver
1914
Greater Wealth
as Mrs. Ed Young
1913
Etienne of the Glad Heart
as Marie Le Groux
1914
The Wilderness Mail
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
1914
In Defiance of the Law
as Isobel Deane
1914
The Smuggler's Sister
as Bessie
1914
Cheap Kisses
as Maybelle Wescott
1924
Lassoing a Lion
as Mary Valjon
1915
His Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger
1915
The Primitive Way
as Mildred Manning
1915
The Red Blood of Courage
as Lydia Duane
1915
The Fork in the Road
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
1915
The Great Experiment
as Ritta
1915
The Two Natures Within Him
as Mary Bishop
1915