Bessie Eyton
Birthday
1890/07/05
Day of death
1965/01/22 (74 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Also know as
Bessie Harrison
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.
Acting
(1917) Who Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran
(1917) The Law North of 65
as Jeanne
(1916) Twisted Trails
as Sunshine West
(1911) Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick
(1914) Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
(1914) The White Mouse
as Jean Silver
(1914) When the West Was Young
as Nellie Halton
(1913) Greater Wealth
as Mrs. Ed Young
(1914) Etienne of the Glad Heart
as Marie Le Groux
(1914) The Wilderness Mail
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
(1914) In Defiance of the Law
as Isobel Deane
(1914) The Smuggler's Sister
as Bessie
(1924) Cheap Kisses
as Maybelle Wescott
(1915) Lassoing a Lion
as ---
(1915) The Primitive Way
as Mildred Manning
(1915) The Red Blood of Courage
as Lydia Duane
(1915) His Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger
(1915) The Fork in the Road
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
(1915) The Great Experiment
as Ritta
(1915) The Two Natures Within Him
as Mary Bishop
(1914) Kid Pink and the Maharajah
as ---
(1914) Shotgun Jones
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
(1925) The Girl of Gold
as Ada Tremaine
(1913) In the Long Ago
as Starlight
(1911) Blackbeard
as Conchita
(1912) The Mate of the Alden Bessie
as The Captain's Daughter
(1914) The Spoilers
as Helen Chester
(1913) Alone in the Jungle
as Helen Brown
(1914) In the Days of the Thundering Herd
as Sally Madison
(1916) The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel
(1917) Beware of Strangers
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
(1917) The Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan