Bessie Eyton

Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: July 5, 1890
Day of Death: January 22, 1965 (75 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
1925
1924
1917
1916
1915
1914
Actor Nellie Halton
When the West Was Young

Actor Dr. Cecil Grantham
Chip of the Flying U
Actor Jean Silver
The White Mouse

Actor Marie Le Groux
Etienne of the Glad Heart
Actor Joan, a Young French-Canadian
The Wilderness Mail
Actor Isobel Deane
In Defiance of the Law

Actor Bessie
The Smuggler's Sister
Actor
Kid Pink and the Maharajah

Actor Sally Lattier - the Daughter
Shotgun Jones

Actor Helen Chester
The Spoilers

Actor Sally Madison
In the Days of the Thundering Herd

Writer
The Smuggler's Sister