Bessie Eyton
Known for: Acting
Born: July 5, 1890
Died: January 22, 1965
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
39 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
9.0
The Girl of Gold
1925
10.0
Cheap Kisses
1924
9.0
The Usurper
1919
7.0
A Man of Honor
1919
9.0
Children of Banishment
1919
7.0
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918
NR
The Still Alarm
1918
NR
The City of Purple Dreams
1918
NR
Who Shall Take My Life?
19178.0
The Law North of 65
1917
3.6
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
NR
Beware of Strangers
1917
5.3
The Crisis
1916
5.0
Twisted Trails
19167.0
The Two Natures Within Him
19159.0
The Great Experiment
19159.0
The Fork in the Road
191510.0
The Red Blood of Courage
1915NR
The Primitive Way
19158.0
His Fighting Blood
19158.0
Lassoing a Lion
1915
NR
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
19147.0
When the West Was Young
1914
NR
Chip of the Flying U
1914NR
The White Mouse
1914
NR
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914NR
The Wilderness Mail
1914NR
In Defiance of the Law
1914
NR
Shotgun Jones
1914
6.2
The Spoilers
1914NR
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914
NR
The Smuggler's Sister
1914
6.0
Alone in the Jungle
1913
NR
In the Long Ago
1913NR
Greater Wealth
1913
4.0
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912
8.0
Blackbeard
1911
NR
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911
NR
Lend Me Your Name
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