Bessie Eyton
Biography
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
The Girl of Gold
1925
as Ada Tremaine
Cheap Kisses
1924
as Maybelle Wescott
The Usurper
1919
as Margaret Quentin
A Man of Honor
1919
as Christabel Beaumont
Children of Banishment
1919
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918
as Gladys
The Still Alarm
1918
as Eleanor Fordham
The City of Purple Dreams
1918
as Kathlyn Otis
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
as Mary Moran
- No poster
The Law North of 65
1917
as Jeanne
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
as Texas Ryan
Beware of Strangers
1917
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
The Crisis
1916
as Virginia Carvel
Twisted Trails
1916
as Sunshine West
- No poster
The Two Natures Within Him
1915
as Mary Bishop
- No poster
The Great Experiment
1915
as Ritta
- No poster
The Fork in the Road
1915
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
- No poster
The Red Blood of Courage
1915
as Lydia Duane
- No poster
The Primitive Way
1915
as Mildred Manning
- No poster
His Fighting Blood
1915
as Hope McTrigger
- No poster
Lassoing a Lion
1915
as Mary Valjon
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
as Sally Madison
- No poster
When the West Was Young
1914
as Nellie Halton
Chip of the Flying U
1914
as Dr. Cecil Grantham