Bessie Eyton
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel 1916
The Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan 1917
Twisted Trails
as Sunshine West 1916
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
as The Captain's Daughter 1912
Alone in the Jungle
as Helen Brown 1913
Who Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran 1917
The Law North of 65
as Jeanne 1917
Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick 1911
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 1914
Greater Wealth
as Mrs. Ed Young 1913
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 1914