Bessie Eyton

Bessie Eyton

ActorWriter Jul 5 (died age 74) Santa Barbara, California, USA 1911–1925 (14 year career)

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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.

Known For

The Spoilers

The Spoilers

Helen Chester

The Crisis

The Crisis

Virginia Carvel

The Heart of Texas Ryan

The Heart of Texas Ryan

Texas Ryan

Alone in the Jungle

Alone in the Jungle

Helen Brown

Twisted Trails

Twisted Trails

Sunshine West

The Mate of the Alden Bessie

The Mate of the Alden Bessie

The Captain's Daughter

The Girl of Gold

The Girl of Gold

Ada Tremaine

Cheap Kisses

Cheap Kisses

Maybelle Wescott

Filmography

Acting (38)

Movies (38)

The Girl of Gold

The Girl of Gold

as Ada Tremaine

Cheap Kisses

Cheap Kisses

as Maybelle Wescott

Children of Banishment

Children of Banishment

as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie

A Man of Honor

A Man of Honor

as Christabel Beaumont

The Usurper

The Usurper

as Margaret Quentin

The Still Alarm

The Still Alarm

as Eleanor Fordham

The City of Purple Dreams

The City of Purple Dreams

as Kathlyn Otis

The Way of a Man with a Maid

The Way of a Man with a Maid

as Gladys

Beware of Strangers

Beware of Strangers

as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

Who Shall Take My Life?

Who Shall Take My Life?

as Mary Moran

The Heart of Texas Ryan

The Heart of Texas Ryan

as Texas Ryan

The Law North of 65

as Jeanne

Twisted Trails

Twisted Trails

as Sunshine West

The Crisis

The Crisis

as Virginia Carvel

The Red Blood of Courage

as Lydia Duane

Lassoing a Lion

as Mary Valjon

The Fork in the Road

as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte

The Primitive Way

as Mildred Manning

His Fighting Blood

as Hope McTrigger

The Great Experiment

as Ritta

The Two Natures Within Him

as Mary Bishop

In Defiance of the Law

as Isobel Deane

Kid Pink and the Maharajah

When the West Was Young

as Nellie Halton

The White Mouse

as Jean Silver

In the Days of the Thundering Herd

In the Days of the Thundering Herd

as Sally Madison

Shotgun Jones

Shotgun Jones

as Sally Lattier - the Daughter

The Smuggler's Sister

The Smuggler's Sister

as Bessie

Etienne of the Glad Heart

Etienne of the Glad Heart

as Marie Le Groux

The Wilderness Mail

as Joan, a Young French-Canadian

The Spoilers

The Spoilers

as Helen Chester

Chip of the Flying U

Chip of the Flying U

as Dr. Cecil Grantham

Greater Wealth

as Mrs. Ed Young

In the Long Ago

In the Long Ago

as Starlight

Alone in the Jungle

Alone in the Jungle

as Helen Brown

The Mate of the Alden Bessie

The Mate of the Alden Bessie

as The Captain's Daughter

Blackbeard

Blackbeard

as Conchita

Kit Carson's Wooing

Kit Carson's Wooing

as Lat-to-nick

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

The Smuggler's Sister

The Smuggler's Sister

Writer