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Bessie Eyton

Bessie Eyton

Birthday: 1890-07-05 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1925
The Girl of Gold

as    Ada Tremaine

1924
Cheap Kisses

as    Maybelle Wescott

1919
A Man of Honor

as    Christabel Beaumont

1919
The Usurper

as    Margaret Quentin

1919
Children of Banishment

as    Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie

1918
The Still Alarm

as    Eleanor Fordham

1918
The Way of a Man with a Maid

as    Gladys

1918
The City of Purple Dreams

as    Kathlyn Otis

1917
The Law North of 65

as    Jeanne

1917
Beware of Strangers

as    Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

1917
Who Shall Take My Life?

as    Mary Moran

1917
The Heart of Texas Ryan

as    Texas Ryan

1916
Twisted Trails

as    Sunshine West

1915
The Fork in the Road

as    Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte

1915
His Fighting Blood

as    Hope McTrigger

1915
The Red Blood of Courage

as    Lydia Duane

1915
The Two Natures Within Him

as    Mary Bishop

1915
Lassoing a Lion

as    Mary Valjon

1915
The Primitive Way

as    Mildred Manning

1915
The Great Experiment

as    Ritta

1914
The Smuggler's Sister

as    Bessie

1914
Chip of the Flying U

as    Dr. Cecil Grantham

1914
The Spoilers

as    Helen Chester

1914
In Defiance of the Law

as    Isobel Deane

1914
The White Mouse

as    Jean Silver

1914
The Wilderness Mail

as    Joan, a Young French-Canadian

1914
Etienne of the Glad Heart

as    Marie Le Groux

1914
When the West Was Young

as    Nellie Halton

1914
In the Days of the Thundering Herd

as    Sally Madison