Acting
Bessie Eyton
EN cinema · 39 credits
Born
5 July 1890
Died
22 January 1965 (aged 74)
Birthplace
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Also known as Bessie Harrison
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
Filmography
Lend Me Your Name
as Sophronia
The Girl of Gold
as Ada Tremaine
Cheap Kisses
as Maybelle Wescott
The Usurper
as Margaret Quentin
A Man of Honor
as Christabel Beaumont
Children of Banishment
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
The Still Alarm
as Eleanor Fordham
The City of Purple Dreams
as Kathlyn Otis
Who Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran
Beware of Strangers
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
The Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan
Twisted Trails
as Sunshine West
The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel
Lassoing a Lion
1915
Lassoing a Lion
as Mary Valjon
His Fighting Blood
1915
His Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger
The Primitive Way
1915
The Primitive Way
as Mildred Manning
The Fork in the Road
1915
The Fork in the Road
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
When the West Was Young
1914
When the West Was Young
as Nellie Halton
Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
The White Mouse
1914
The White Mouse
as Jean Silver
Etienne of the Glad Heart
as Marie Le Groux
The Wilderness Mail
1914
The Wilderness Mail
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
The Smuggler's Sister
as Bessie, Writer
Shotgun Jones
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
The Spoilers
as Helen Chester
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
as Sally Madison
Greater Wealth
1913
Greater Wealth
as Mrs. Ed Young
In the Long Ago
as Starlight
Alone in the Jungle
as Helen Brown
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
as The Captain's Daughter
Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick
Blackbeard
as Conchita