Bessie Eyton
Acting • 1890-07-05 • Santa Barbara, California, USA
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
3.6The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
8.0Blackbeard
1911
9.0Children of Banishment
1919
6.2The Spoilers
1914
5.3The Crisis
1916
9.0The Girl of Gold
1925
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Filmography
- 1925★ 9.0
- 1924★ 10.0
- 1919★ 9.0
- 1919★ 9.0
- 1919★ 7.0
- 1918★ 7.0
- 1918
- 1918
- 1917★ 3.6
- 1917★ 8.0
- 1917
- 1917
- 1916★ 5.3
- 1916★ 5.0
- 1915★ 10.0
- 1915★ 9.0
- 1915★ 9.0
- 1915★ 8.0
- 1915★ 8.0
- 1915★ 7.0
- 1915
- 1914★ 6.2
- 1914★ 7.0
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1913★ 6.0
- 1913
- 1913
- 1912★ 4.0
- 1911★ 8.0
- 1911
