People
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.
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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The Girl of Gold as Ada Tremaine | 1925-02-16 |
Cheap Kisses as Maybelle Wescott | 1924-12-21 |
Who Shall Take My Life? as Mary Moran | 1917-12-01 |
The Law North of 65 as Jeanne | 1917-10-06 |
The Heart of Texas Ryan as Texas Ryan | 1917-02-25 |
Beware of Strangers as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter | 1917-02-10 |
The Crisis as Virginia Carvel | 1916-12-21 |
Twisted Trails as Sunshine West | 1916-12-11 |
The Two Natures Within Him as Mary Bishop | 1915-05-20 |
The Great Experiment as Ritta | 1915-04-19 |
The Fork in the Road as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte | 1915-03-15 |
The Red Blood of Courage as Lydia Duane | 1915-02-22 |
The Primitive Way as Mildred Manning | 1915-01-23 |
His Fighting Blood as Hope McTrigger | 1915-01-18 |
Lassoing a Lion as Mary Valjon | 1915-01-02 |
In the Days of the Thundering Herd as Sally Madison | 1914-11-30 |
When the West Was Young as Nellie Halton | 1914-09-07 |
Chip of the Flying U as Dr. Cecil Grantham | 1914-08-29 |
The White Mouse as Jean Silver | 1914-08-24 |
Etienne of the Glad Heart as Marie Le Groux | 1914-08-03 |
The Wilderness Mail as Joan, a Young French-Canadian | 1914-07-13 |
In Defiance of the Law as Isobel Deane | 1914-06-28 |
Shotgun Jones as Sally Lattier - the Daughter | 1914-04-27 |
The Spoilers as Helen Chester | 1914-04-10 |
Kid Pink and the Maharajah | 1914-03-12 |
The Smuggler's Sister as Bessie | 1914-03-03 |
Alone in the Jungle as Helen Brown | 1913-06-14 |
In the Long Ago as Starlight | 1913-05-15 |
Greater Wealth as Mrs. Ed Young | 1913-01-01 |
The Mate of the Alden Bessie as The Captain's Daughter | 1912-01-04 |
Blackbeard as Conchita | 1911-11-23 |
Kit Carson's Wooing as Lat-to-nick | 1911-09-11 |