Bessie Eyton
Birthday: 1890-07-05 | Place of Birth: Santa Barbara, California, USABessie 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
Acting
Role
as Ada Tremaine
as Maybelle Wescott
as Christabel Beaumont
as Margaret Quentin
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
as Eleanor Fordham
as Gladys
as Kathlyn Otis
as Jeanne
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
as Mary Moran
as Texas Ryan
as Sunshine West
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
as Hope McTrigger
as Lydia Duane
as Mary Bishop
as Mary Valjon
as Mildred Manning
as Ritta
as Bessie
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
as Helen Chester
as Isobel Deane
as Jean Silver
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
as Marie Le Groux
as Nellie Halton
as Sally Madison
