Bessie Eyton
View on IMDb ↗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
Cheap Kisses
The Girl of Gold
The Usurper
Children of Banishment
Blackbeard
A Man of Honor
The Way of a Man with a Maid
The Spoilers
Alone in the Jungle
The CrisisFilmography (39)
- 1925
The Girl of GoldAda Tremaine - 1924
Cheap KissesMaybelle Wescott - 1919
The UsurperMargaret Quentin - 1919
Children of BanishmentMrs. Eloise Mackenzie - 1919
A Man of HonorChristabel Beaumont - 1918
The Way of a Man with a MaidGladys - 1918
The Still AlarmEleanor Fordham - 1918
The City of Purple DreamsKathlyn Otis - 1917The Law North of 65Jeanne
- 1917
The Heart of Texas RyanTexas Ryan - 1917
Who Shall Take My Life?Mary Moran - 1917
Beware of StrangersMadeleine, Mentor's Daughter - 1916
The CrisisVirginia Carvel - 1916
Twisted TrailsSunshine West - 1915The Red Blood of CourageLydia Duane
- 1915The Fork in the RoadElsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
- 1915The Great ExperimentRitta
- 1915Lassoing a LionMary Valjon
- 1915His Fighting BloodHope McTrigger
- 1915The Two Natures Within HimMary Bishop
- 1915The Primitive WayMildred Manning
- 1914When the West Was YoungNellie Halton
- 1914
The SpoilersHelen Chester - 1914
Chip of the Flying UDr. Cecil Grantham - 1914The White MouseJean Silver
- 1914
Etienne of the Glad HeartMarie Le Groux - 1914The Wilderness MailJoan, a Young French-Canadian
- 1914In Defiance of the LawIsobel Deane
- 1914
The Smuggler's SisterBessie - 1914Kid Pink and the Maharajah
- 1914
Shotgun JonesSally Lattier - the Daughter - 1914
In the Days of the Thundering HerdSally Madison - 1913
Alone in the JungleHelen Brown - 1913Greater WealthMrs. Ed Young
- 1913
In the Long AgoStarlight - 1912
The Mate of the Alden BessieThe Captain's Daughter - 1911
BlackbeardConchita - 1911
Kit Carson's WooingLat-to-nick - —
Lend Me Your NameSophronia