Actor
Bessie Eyton
Born 1890 · 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.
Acting
The Red Blood of Courage
Lydia Duane · 1915
Cheap Kisses
Maybelle Wescott · 1924
The Girl of Gold
Ada Tremaine · 1925
The Fork in the Road
Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte · 1915
The Great Experiment
Ritta · 1915
The Usurper
Margaret Quentin · 1919
Children of Banishment
Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie · 1919
Blackbeard
Conchita · 1911
Lassoing a Lion
Mary Valjon · 1915
The Law North of 65
Jeanne · 1917
His Fighting Blood
Hope McTrigger · 1915
The Two Natures Within Him
Mary Bishop · 1915
The Way of a Man with a Maid
Gladys · 1918
When the West Was Young
Nellie Halton · 1914
A Man of Honor
Christabel Beaumont · 1919
The Spoilers
Helen Chester · 1914
Alone in the Jungle
Helen Brown · 1913
The Crisis
Virginia Carvel · 1916
Twisted Trails
Sunshine West · 1916
The Heart of Texas Ryan
Texas Ryan · 1917
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
The Captain's Daughter · 1912
Greater Wealth
Mrs. Ed Young · 1913
In the Long Ago
Starlight · 1913
The Wilderness Mail
Joan, a Young French-Canadian · 1914
