Bessie Eyton
Actor
- Born
- July 5, 1890 · Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Died
- January 22, 1965 (age 74)
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.
Known for
The Heart of Texas Ryan
February 25, 1917
The Spoilers
April 10, 1914
The Crisis
December 21, 1916
Blackbeard
November 23, 1911
Twisted Trails
December 11, 1916
Cheap Kisses
December 21, 1924
The Girl of Gold
February 16, 1925
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
January 4, 1912
Alone in the Jungle
June 14, 1913
The Way of a Man with a Maid
December 29, 1918
The Usurper
April 28, 1919
A Man of Honor
April 14, 1919
Acting39
- 1925The Girl of Gold as Ada Tremaine
- 1924Cheap Kisses as Maybelle Wescott
- 1919The Usurper as Margaret Quentin
- 1919A Man of Honor as Christabel Beaumont
- 1919Children of Banishment as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
- 1918The Way of a Man with a Maid as Gladys
- 1918The Still Alarm as Eleanor Fordham
- 1918The City of Purple Dreams as Kathlyn Otis
- 1917Who Shall Take My Life? as Mary Moran
- 1917