Bessie Eyton

ActingBorn: July 5, 1890in Santa Barbara, California, USADied: January 22, 1965

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.

Bessie Eyton

The Girl of Gold

Cheap Kisses

The Usurper

A Man of Honor

Children of Banishment

The Way of a Man with a Maid

The Still Alarm

The City of Purple Dreams

Who Shall Take My Life?

The Law North of 65

The Heart of Texas Ryan

Beware of Strangers

The Crisis

Twisted Trails

The Two Natures Within Him

The Great Experiment

The Fork in the Road

The Red Blood of Courage

The Primitive Way

His Fighting Blood

Lassoing a Lion

In the Days of the Thundering Herd

When the West Was Young

Chip of the Flying U

The White Mouse

Etienne of the Glad Heart

The Wilderness Mail

In Defiance of the Law

Shotgun Jones

The Spoilers

Kid Pink and the Maharajah

The Smuggler's Sister

Alone in the Jungle

In the Long Ago

Greater Wealth

The Mate of the Alden Bessie

Blackbeard

Kit Carson's Wooing

Lend Me Your Name