Bessie Eyton

Jul 05, 1890 - Jan 22, 1965 (74 years old) in 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

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Lassoing a Lion

Mary Valjon

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The Fork in the Road

Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte

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The Primitive Way

Mildred Manning

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His Fighting Blood

Hope McTrigger

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The Great Experiment

Ritta

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Alone in the Jungle

Helen Brown

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The Two Natures Within Him

Mary Bishop

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The Mate of the Alden Bessie

The Captain's Daughter

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Beware of Strangers

Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

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Twisted Trails

Sunshine West

Credits

The Girl of Gold 1925

Ada Tremaine

★ NR
Cheap Kisses 1924

Maybelle Wescott

★ NR
The Usurper 1919

Margaret Quentin

★ NR
The Way of a Man with a Maid 1918

Gladys

★ NR
Who Shall Take My Life? 1917

Mary Moran

★ NR
The Law North of 65 1917

Jeanne

★ NR
The Heart of Texas Ryan 1917

Texas Ryan

★ 4
Beware of Strangers 1917

Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

★ NR
The Crisis 1916

Virginia Carvel

★ 5.3
Twisted Trails 1916

Sunshine West

★ 5
The Two Natures Within Him 1915

Mary Bishop

★ NR
The Great Experiment 1915

Ritta

★ NR
The Fork in the Road 1915

Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte

★ NR
The Red Blood of Courage 1915

Lydia Duane

★ NR
The Primitive Way 1915

Mildred Manning

★ NR
His Fighting Blood 1915

Hope McTrigger

★ NR
Lassoing a Lion 1915

Mary Valjon

★ NR
In the Days of the Thundering Herd 1914

Sally Madison

★ NR
When the West Was Young 1914

Nellie Halton

★ NR
Chip of the Flying U 1914

Dr. Cecil Grantham

★ NR
The White Mouse 1914

Jean Silver

★ NR
Etienne of the Glad Heart 1914

Marie Le Groux

★ NR
The Wilderness Mail 1914

Joan, a Young French-Canadian

★ NR
In Defiance of the Law 1914

Isobel Deane

★ NR
Shotgun Jones 1914

Sally Lattier - the Daughter

★ NR
The Spoilers 1914

Helen Chester

★ 6.2
Kid Pink and the Maharajah 1914

★ NR
The Smuggler's Sister 1914

Bessie

★ NR
Alone in the Jungle 1913

Helen Brown

★ 6
In the Long Ago 1913

Starlight

★ NR
Greater Wealth 1913

Mrs. Ed Young

★ NR
The Mate of the Alden Bessie 1912

The Captain's Daughter

★ 4
Blackbeard 1911

Conchita

★ NR
Kit Carson's Wooing 1911

Lat-to-nick

★ NR

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