Bessie Eyton
Acting · Born Jul 5, 1890 · Died Jan 22, 1965 (74) · 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.
Films
The Girl of Gold
19259.0
Cheap Kisses
192410.0
The Usurper
19199.0
A Man of Honor
19197.0
Children of Banishment
19199.0
The Way of a Man with a Maid
19187.0
The Still Alarm
1918
The City of Purple Dreams
1918
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
The Heart of Texas Ryan
19173.6
Beware of Strangers
1917
The Crisis
19165.3
Twisted Trails
19165.0
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
Chip of the Flying U
1914
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914
Shotgun Jones
1914
The Spoilers
19146.2
The Smuggler's Sister
1914
Alone in the Jungle
19136.0
In the Long Ago
1913
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
19124.0
Blackbeard
19118.0
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911
Lend Me Your Name
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