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