Bessie Eyton
Acting · Born 1890-07-05 · 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.
As cast
The Girl of Gold 1925
Cast
Cheap Kisses 1924
Cast
The Usurper 1919
Cast
A Man of Honor 1919
Cast
Children of Banishment 1919
Cast
The Way of a Man with a Maid 1918
Cast
The Still Alarm 1918
Cast
The City of Purple Dreams 1918
Cast
Who Shall Take My Life? 1917
Cast
No poster
The Law North of 65 1917
Cast
The Heart of Texas Ryan 1917
Cast
Beware of Strangers 1917
Cast
The Crisis 1916
Cast
Twisted Trails 1916
Cast
No poster
The Two Natures Within Him 1915
Cast
No poster
The Great Experiment 1915
Cast
No poster
The Fork in the Road 1915
Cast
No poster
The Red Blood of Courage 1915
Cast
No poster
The Primitive Way 1915
Cast
No poster
His Fighting Blood 1915
Cast
No poster
Lassoing a Lion 1915
Cast
In the Days of the Thundering Herd 1914
Cast
No poster
When the West Was Young 1914
Cast
Chip of the Flying U 1914
Cast
No poster
The White Mouse 1914
Cast
Etienne of the Glad Heart 1914
Cast
No poster
The Wilderness Mail 1914
Cast
No poster
In Defiance of the Law 1914
Cast
Shotgun Jones 1914
Cast
The Spoilers 1914
Cast
No poster
Kid Pink and the Maharajah 1914
Cast
The Smuggler's Sister 1914
Cast
Alone in the Jungle 1913
Cast
In the Long Ago 1913
Cast
No poster
Greater Wealth 1913
Cast
The Mate of the Alden Bessie 1912
Cast
Blackbeard 1911
Cast
Kit Carson's Wooing 1911
Cast
As director
No directing credits found.