Bessie Eyton

Acting

Born July 5, 1890, Santa Barbara, California, USA

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

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