Bessie Eyton
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
Top 38 Movies
The Spoilers
1914
The Usurper
1919
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
The Girl of Gold
1925
The Crisis
1916
Beware of Strangers
1917
In the Long Ago
1913
The City of Purple Dreams
1918
Shotgun Jones
1914
Chip of the Flying U
1914
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
Twisted Trails
1916
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912
Cheap Kisses
1924
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
Alone in the Jungle
1913
The Smuggler's Sister
1914
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914
The Still Alarm
1918
Blackbeard
1911
Children of Banishment
1919
A Man of Honor
1919