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.

Known For

The Spoilers

The Crisis

In the Long Ago

Who Shall Take My Life?

The Heart of Texas Ryan

The Girl of Gold

The City of Purple Dreams

Kit Carson's Wooing

All Movies (39)

• The Girl of Gold1925 · as Ada Tremaine
• Cheap Kisses1924 · as Maybelle Wescott
• The Usurper1919 · as Margaret Quentin
• A Man of Honor1919 · as Christabel Beaumont
• Children of Banishment1919 · as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
• The Way of a Man with a Maid1918 · as Gladys
• The Still Alarm1918 · as Eleanor Fordham
• The City of Purple Dreams1918 · as Kathlyn Otis
• Who Shall Take My Life?1917 · as Mary Moran
• The Law North of 651917 · as Jeanne
• The Heart of Texas Ryan1917 · as Texas Ryan
• Beware of Strangers1917 · as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
• The Crisis1916 · as Virginia Carvel
• Twisted Trails1916 · as Sunshine West
• The Two Natures Within Him1915 · as Mary Bishop
• The Great Experiment1915 · as Ritta
• The Fork in the Road1915 · as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
• The Red Blood of Courage1915 · as Lydia Duane
• The Primitive Way1915 · as Mildred Manning
• His Fighting Blood1915 · as Hope McTrigger
• Lassoing a Lion1915 · as Mary Valjon
• In the Days of the Thundering Herd1914 · as Sally Madison
• When the West Was Young1914 · as Nellie Halton
• Chip of the Flying U1914 · as Dr. Cecil Grantham
• The White Mouse1914 · as Jean Silver
• Etienne of the Glad Heart1914 · as Marie Le Groux
• The Wilderness Mail1914 · as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
• In Defiance of the Law1914 · as Isobel Deane
• Shotgun Jones1914 · as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
• The Spoilers1914 · as Helen Chester
• Kid Pink and the Maharajah1914
• The Smuggler's Sister1914 · as Bessie
• Alone in the Jungle1913 · as Helen Brown
• In the Long Ago1913 · as Starlight
• Greater Wealth1913 · as Mrs. Ed Young
• The Mate of the Alden Bessie1912 · as The Captain's Daughter
• Blackbeard1911 · as Conchita
• Kit Carson's Wooing1911 · as Lat-to-nick
• Lend Me Your Name— · as Sophronia