Bessie Eyton
ActingBorn 1890-07-05 · Santa Barbara, California, USADied 1965-01-22
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.
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Lend Me Your Name
The Girl of Gold
Feb 16, 1925Rated 9 out of 10
Cheap Kisses
Dec 21, 1924Rated 10 out of 10
The Usurper
Apr 28, 1919Rated 9 out of 10
A Man of Honor
Apr 14, 1919Rated 7 out of 10
Children of Banishment
Feb 03, 1919Rated 9 out of 10
The Way of a Man with a Maid
Dec 29, 1918Rated 7 out of 10
The Still Alarm
Jul 15, 1918
The City of Purple Dreams
Jan 10, 1918
Who Shall Take My Life?
Dec 01, 1917
The Law North of 65
Oct 06, 1917Rated 8 out of 10
Beware of Strangers
Feb 10, 1917
The Heart of Texas Ryan
Feb 25, 1917Rated 3.6 out of 10
Twisted Trails
Dec 11, 1916Rated 5 out of 10
The Crisis
Dec 21, 1916Rated 5.3 out of 10Lassoing a Lion
Jan 02, 1915Rated 8 out of 10His Fighting Blood
Jan 18, 1915Rated 8 out of 10The Red Blood of Courage
Feb 22, 1915Rated 10 out of 10The Primitive Way
Jan 23, 1915The Fork in the Road
Mar 15, 1915Rated 9 out of 10The Great Experiment
Apr 19, 1915Rated 9 out of 10The Two Natures Within Him
May 20, 1915Rated 7 out of 10When the West Was Young
Sep 07, 1914Rated 7 out of 10
Chip of the Flying U
Aug 29, 1914The White Mouse
Aug 24, 1914
Etienne of the Glad Heart
Aug 03, 1914The Wilderness Mail
Jul 13, 1914In Defiance of the Law
Jun 28, 1914
The Smuggler's Sister
Mar 03, 1914Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Mar 12, 1914
Shotgun Jones
Apr 27, 1914
The Spoilers
Apr 10, 1914Rated 6.2 out of 10
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Nov 30, 1914Greater Wealth
Jan 01, 1913
In the Long Ago
May 15, 1913
Alone in the Jungle
Jun 14, 1913Rated 6 out of 10
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Jan 04, 1912Rated 4 out of 10
Kit Carson's Wooing
Sep 11, 1911
Blackbeard
Nov 23, 1911Rated 8 out of 10