Bessie Eyton

Born: 1890-07-05, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Died: 1965-01-22

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 Crisis (1916)
• Shotgun Jones (1914)
• Blackbeard (1911)
• Lend Me Your Name
• Who Shall Take My Life? (1917)
• Cheap Kisses (1924)
• A Man of Honor (1919)
• Children of Banishment (1919)
• Beware of Strangers (1917)
• The Still Alarm (1918)
• The Girl of Gold (1925)
• In the Long Ago (1913)
• In the Days of the Thundering Herd (1914)
• Alone in the Jungle (1913)
• The City of Purple Dreams (1918)
• Etienne of the Glad Heart (1914)
• Twisted Trails (1916)
• The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917)
• The Mate of the Alden Bessie (1912)
• The Smuggler's Sister (1914)
• The Way of a Man with a Maid (1918)
• The Usurper (1919)
• Kit Carson's Wooing (1911)