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
Cheap Kisses
1924
as Maybelle Wescott
Chip of the Flying U
1914
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
Twisted Trails
1916
as Sunshine West
In Defiance of the Law
1914
as Isobel Deane
The Spoilers
1914
as Helen Chester
His Fighting Blood
1915
as Hope McTrigger
The Wilderness Mail
1914
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
Shotgun Jones
1914
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
The White Mouse
1914
as Jean Silver
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
as Texas Ryan
When the West Was Young
1914
as Nellie Halton
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
as Mary Moran
Alone in the Jungle
1913
as Helen Brown
The Girl of Gold
1925
as Ada Tremaine
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
as Sally Madison
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914
The Red Blood of Courage
1915
as Lydia Duane
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914
as Marie Le Groux
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911
as Lat-to-nick
In the Long Ago
1913
as Starlight