Bessie Eyton
Acting
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.
As actor 39
Shotgun Jones
1914
The Crisis
1916
Cheap Kisses
1924
Blackbeard
1911
The White Mouse
1914
The Red Blood of Courage
1915
When the West Was Young
1914
Greater Wealth
1913
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914
Lend Me Your Name
A Man of Honor
1919
The City of Purple Dreams
1918
His Fighting Blood
1915
The Still Alarm
1918
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
Beware of Strangers
1917
The Two Natures Within Him
1915
The Wilderness Mail
1914
In the Long Ago
1913
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914
The Great Experiment
1915
Children of Banishment
1919
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912
Lassoing a Lion
1915
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
The Smuggler's Sister
1914
The Primitive Way
1915
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918
The Spoilers
1914
Chip of the Flying U
1914
The Usurper
1919
The Law North of 65
1917
The Girl of Gold
1925
Alone in the Jungle
1913
In Defiance of the Law
1914
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911
The Fork in the Road
1915
Twisted Trails
1916