Bessie Eyton

Known for: Acting

Born: 1890-07-05 – 1965-01-22 (aged 74)

From: 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 (39)

MOVIE★ 9.0
The Girl of Gold
1925
as Ada Tremaine
MOVIE★ 10.0
Cheap Kisses
1924
as Maybelle Wescott
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Usurper
1919
as Margaret Quentin
MOVIE★ 7.0
A Man of Honor
1919
as Christabel Beaumont
MOVIE★ 9.0
Children of Banishment
1919
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918
as Gladys
MOVIE
The Still Alarm
1918
as Eleanor Fordham
MOVIE
The City of Purple Dreams
1918
as Kathlyn Otis
MOVIE
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
as Mary Moran
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Law North of 65
1917
as Jeanne
MOVIE★ 3.8
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
as Texas Ryan
MOVIE
Beware of Strangers
1917
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Crisis
1916
as Virginia Carvel
MOVIE★ 5.0
Twisted Trails
1916
as Sunshine West
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Two Natures Within Him
1915
as Mary Bishop
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Great Experiment
1915
as Ritta
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Fork in the Road
1915
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Red Blood of Courage
1915
as Lydia Duane
MOVIE
The Primitive Way
1915
as Mildred Manning
MOVIE★ 8.0
His Fighting Blood
1915
as Hope McTrigger
MOVIE★ 8.0
Lassoing a Lion
1915
as Mary Valjon
MOVIE
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
as Sally Madison
MOVIE★ 7.0
When the West Was Young
1914
as Nellie Halton
MOVIE
Chip of the Flying U
1914
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
MOVIE
The White Mouse
1914
as Jean Silver
MOVIE
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914
as Marie Le Groux
MOVIE
The Wilderness Mail
1914
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
MOVIE
In Defiance of the Law
1914
as Isobel Deane
MOVIE
Shotgun Jones
1914
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Spoilers
1914
as Helen Chester
MOVIE
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914
MOVIE
The Smuggler's Sister
1914
as Bessie
MOVIE★ 6.0
Alone in the Jungle
1913
as Helen Brown
MOVIE
In the Long Ago
1913
as Starlight
MOVIE
Greater Wealth
1913
as Mrs. Ed Young
MOVIE★ 4.0
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912
as The Captain's Daughter
MOVIE★ 8.0
Blackbeard
1911
as Conchita
MOVIE
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911
as Lat-to-nick
MOVIE
Lend Me Your Name
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as Sophronia