Bessie Eyton

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Bessie Eyton

Acting July 5, 1890

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 lik…

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Shotgun Jones

Shotgun Jones

1914 Movie
Blackbeard

Blackbeard

8.0 1911 Movie
The Crisis

The Crisis

5.3 1916 Movie
The Spoilers

The Spoilers

6.2 1914 Movie
The Heart of Texas Ryan

The Heart of Texas Ryan

3.6 1917 Movie
Cheap Kisses

Cheap Kisses

10.0 1924 Movie
Beware of Strangers

Beware of Strangers

1917 Movie
Lend Me Your Name

Lend Me Your Name

Movie
Etienne of the Glad Heart

Etienne of the Glad Heart

1914 Movie
In the Days of the Thundering Herd

In the Days of the Thundering Herd

1914 Movie
Children of Banishment

Children of Banishment

9.0 1919 Movie
Alone in the Jungle

Alone in the Jungle

6.0 1913 Movie

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 1925
    The Girl of Gold

    Movie Ada Tremaine

  2. 1924
    Cheap Kisses

    Movie Maybelle Wescott

  3. 1919
    The Usurper

    Movie Margaret Quentin

  4. 1919
    A Man of Honor

    Movie Christabel Beaumont

  5. 1919
    Children of Banishment

    Movie Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie

  6. 1918
    The Way of a Man with a Maid

    Movie Gladys

  7. 1918
    The Still Alarm

    Movie Eleanor Fordham

  8. 1918
    The City of Purple Dreams

    Movie Kathlyn Otis

  9. 1917
    Who Shall Take My Life?

    Movie Mary Moran

  10. 1917
    The Law North of 65

    Movie Jeanne

  11. 1917
    The Heart of Texas Ryan

    Movie Texas Ryan

  12. 1917
    Beware of Strangers

    Movie Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

  13. 1916
    The Crisis

    Movie Virginia Carvel

  14. 1916
    Twisted Trails

    Movie Sunshine West

  15. 1915
    The Two Natures Within Him

    Movie Mary Bishop

  16. 1915
    The Great Experiment

    Movie Ritta

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  1. 1915
    The Fork in the Road

    Movie Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte

  2. 1915
    The Red Blood of Courage

    Movie Lydia Duane

  3. 1915
    The Primitive Way

    Movie Mildred Manning

  4. 1915
    His Fighting Blood

    Movie Hope McTrigger

  5. 1915
    Lassoing a Lion

    Movie Mary Valjon

  6. 1914
    In the Days of the Thundering Herd

    Movie Sally Madison

  7. 1914
    When the West Was Young

    Movie Nellie Halton

  8. 1914
    Chip of the Flying U

    Movie Dr. Cecil Grantham

  9. 1914
    The White Mouse

    Movie Jean Silver

  10. 1914
    Etienne of the Glad Heart

    Movie Marie Le Groux

  11. 1914
    The Wilderness Mail

    Movie Joan, a Young French-Canadian

  12. 1914
    In Defiance of the Law

    Movie Isobel Deane

  13. 1914
    Shotgun Jones

    Movie Sally Lattier - the Daughter

  14. 1914
    The Spoilers

    Movie Helen Chester

  15. 1914
    Kid Pink and the Maharajah

    Movie

  16. 1914
    The Smuggler's Sister

    Movie Bessie

  17. 1913
    Alone in the Jungle

    Movie Helen Brown

  18. 1913
    In the Long Ago

    Movie Starlight

  19. 1913
    Greater Wealth

    Movie Mrs. Ed Young

  20. 1912
    The Mate of the Alden Bessie

    Movie The Captain's Daughter

  21. 1911
    Blackbeard

    Movie Conchita

  22. 1911
    Kit Carson's Wooing

    Movie Lat-to-nick

  23. —
    Lend Me Your Name

    Movie Sophronia