Bessie Eyton
Acting
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.
Photos
The Spoilers
1914
Helen Chester
The Crisis
1916
Virginia Carvel
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
Texas Ryan
Twisted Trails
1916
Sunshine West
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912
The Captain's Daughter
Alone in the Jungle
1913
Helen Brown
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
Mary Moran
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911
Lat-to-nick
Chip of the Flying U
1914
Dr. Cecil Grantham
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914
Marie Le Groux
The Smuggler's Sister
1914
Bessie
Cheap Kisses
1924
Maybelle Wescott
Shotgun Jones
1914
Sally Lattier - the Daughter
The Girl of Gold
1925
Ada Tremaine
In the Long Ago
1913
Starlight
Blackbeard
1911
Conchita
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
Sally Madison
Beware of Strangers
1917
Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918
Gladys
The Usurper
1919
Margaret Quentin