Bessie Eyton

1890-07-05 – 1965-01-22 (age 74) Santa Barbara, California, USA

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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.

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Bessie Eyton

Bessie Eyton

Bessie Eyton

Bessie Eyton

Known For

Shotgun Jones

Shotgun Jones

1914

as Sally Lattier - the Daughter

Cheap Kisses

Cheap Kisses

1924

as Maybelle Wescott

Greater Wealth

1913

as Mrs. Ed Young

Blackbeard

Blackbeard

1911

as Conchita

Lend Me Your Name

Lend Me Your Name

as Sophronia

The Crisis

The Crisis

1916

as Virginia Carvel

The Still Alarm

The Still Alarm

1918

as Eleanor Fordham

The Spoilers

The Spoilers

1914

as Helen Chester

The City of Purple Dreams

The City of Purple Dreams

1918

as Kathlyn Otis

The Great Experiment

1915

as Ritta

In the Days of the Thundering Herd

In the Days of the Thundering Herd

1914

as Sally Madison

The Primitive Way

1915

as Mildred Manning

Children of Banishment

Children of Banishment

1919

as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie

Kid Pink and the Maharajah

1914

In the Long Ago

In the Long Ago

1913

as Starlight

The Usurper

The Usurper

1919

as Margaret Quentin

When the West Was Young

1914

as Nellie Halton

Beware of Strangers

Beware of Strangers

1917

as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

His Fighting Blood

1915

as Hope McTrigger

The Girl of Gold

The Girl of Gold

1925

as Ada Tremaine