Bessie Eyton
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Film
Shotgun Jones
Sally Lattier - the Daughter
1914
Film
Cheap Kisses
Maybelle Wescott
1924
Film
Blackbeard
Conchita
1911
Film
The Crisis
Virginia Carvel
1916
Film
The Spoilers
Helen Chester
1914
Film
Lend Me Your Name
Sophronia
Greater Wealth
Mrs. Ed Young
1913
Film
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Sally Madison
1914
Film
The Still Alarm
Eleanor Fordham
1918
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914
Film
In the Long Ago
Starlight
1913
Film
Beware of Strangers
Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
1917
Film
The Girl of Gold
Ada Tremaine
1925
Film
The City of Purple Dreams
Kathlyn Otis
1918
Film
Chip of the Flying U
Dr. Cecil Grantham
1914
Film
Etienne of the Glad Heart
Marie Le Groux
1914
Film
A Man of Honor
Christabel Beaumont
1919
Film
The Usurper
Margaret Quentin
1919
Film
Children of Banishment
Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
1919
When the West Was Young
Nellie Halton
1914
Film
Alone in the Jungle
Helen Brown
1913
Film
Twisted Trails
Sunshine West
1916
The Great Experiment
Ritta
1915
Film
Who Shall Take My Life?
Mary Moran
1917
Film
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
The Captain's Daughter
1912
The Red Blood of Courage
Lydia Duane
1915
The White Mouse
Jean Silver
1914
The Wilderness Mail
Joan, a Young French-Canadian
1914
Film
The Way of a Man with a Maid
Gladys
1918
His Fighting Blood
Hope McTrigger
1915
The Primitive Way
Mildred Manning
1915
Film
The Heart of Texas Ryan
Texas Ryan
1917
Film
Kit Carson's Wooing
Lat-to-nick
1911
Film
The Smuggler's Sister
Bessie
1914
In Defiance of the Law
Isobel Deane
1914
Lassoing a Lion
Mary Valjon
1915
The Fork in the Road
Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
1915
The Law North of 65
Jeanne
1917
The Two Natures Within Him
Mary Bishop
1915