
Bessie Eyton
Known For
Acting
Born
1890-07-05 in 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.
Most Known For

Cheap Kisses
as Maybelle Wescott

Greater Wealth
as Mrs. Ed Young

The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel

Blackbeard
as Conchita

Shotgun Jones
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter

The Spoilers
as Helen Chester

The City of Purple Dreams
as Kathlyn Otis

The Fork in the Road
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte

Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham

The White Mouse
as Jean Silver

His Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger

Beware of Strangers
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

In the Long Ago
as Starlight

When the West Was Young
as Nellie Halton

The Girl of Gold
as Ada Tremaine

The Red Blood of Courage
as Lydia Duane

The Law North of 65
as Jeanne

The Way of a Man with a Maid
as Gladys

Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick

Lassoing a Lion
as Mary Valjon