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
His Fighting Blood
1915
as Hope McTrigger
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
as Sally Madison
Cheap Kisses
1924
as Maybelle Wescott
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
as Texas Ryan
In the Long Ago
1913
as Starlight
The Spoilers
1914
as Helen Chester
The Crisis
1916
as Virginia Carvel
Chip of the Flying U
1914
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912
as The Captain's Daughter
The White Mouse
1914
as Jean Silver
Twisted Trails
1916
as Sunshine West
In Defiance of the Law
1914
as Isobel Deane
Shotgun Jones
1914
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
The Wilderness Mail
1914
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
as Mary Moran
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911
as Lat-to-nick
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914
as Marie Le Groux
Alone in the Jungle
1913
as Helen Brown
Beware of Strangers
1917
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter