Bessie Eyton
Known for Acting · 38 credits
- Born
- 1890-07-05
- Died
- 1965-01-22
- Place of birth
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Also known as
- Bessie Harrison
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.
Known For
Movies (38)
Twisted Trails
1916
as Sunshine West
Shotgun Jones
1914
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
Greater Wealth
1913
as Mrs. Ed Young
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918
as Gladys
Alone in the Jungle
1913
as Helen Brown
The White Mouse
1914
as Jean Silver
The Usurper
1919
as Margaret Quentin
The Red Blood of Courage
1915
as Lydia Duane
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
as Mary Moran
The Girl of Gold
1925
as Ada Tremaine
Lassoing a Lion
1915
as Mary Valjon
In the Long Ago
1913
as Starlight
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912
as The Captain's Daughter
The Great Experiment
1915
as Ritta
Cheap Kisses
1924
as Maybelle Wescott
The Primitive Way
1915
as Mildred Manning
Beware of Strangers
1917
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
The Spoilers
1914
as Helen Chester
The Fork in the Road
1915
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
A Man of Honor
1919
as Christabel Beaumont
The Wilderness Mail
1914
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
The Crisis
1916
as Virginia Carvel
The Two Natures Within Him
1915
as Mary Bishop
His Fighting Blood
1915
as Hope McTrigger
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
as Sally Madison
The Law North of 65
1917
as Jeanne
The City of Purple Dreams
1918
as Kathlyn Otis
The Still Alarm
1918
as Eleanor Fordham
When the West Was Young
1914
as Nellie Halton
The Smuggler's Sister
1914
as Bessie
Blackbeard
1911
as Conchita
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
as Texas Ryan
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911
as Lat-to-nick
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914
as Marie Le Groux
Chip of the Flying U
1914
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
In Defiance of the Law
1914
as Isobel Deane
Children of Banishment
1919
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
About Bessie Eyton
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. With 38 credits spanning from 1911 to 1925, Bessie Eyton has appeared in 38 films and 0 TV shows.
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Most Popular Bessie Eyton Movies
- Twisted Trails (1916) — as Sunshine West
- Shotgun Jones (1914) — as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
- Greater Wealth (1913) — as Mrs. Ed Young
- The Way of a Man with a Maid (1918) — as Gladys
- Alone in the Jungle (1913) — as Helen Brown
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