Bessie Eyton
Born: 1890-07-05
• 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 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 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?
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The Law North of 65
The Heart of Texas Ryan
Beware of Strangers
The Crisis
Twisted Trails
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The Two Natures Within Him
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The Great Experiment
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The Fork in the Road
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The Red Blood of Courage
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The Primitive Way
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His Fighting Blood
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Lassoing a Lion
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
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When the West Was Young
Chip of the Flying U
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The White Mouse
Etienne of the Glad Heart
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The Wilderness Mail
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In Defiance of the Law
Shotgun Jones
The Spoilers
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Kid Pink and the Maharajah
The Smuggler's Sister
Alone in the Jungle
In the Long Ago
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Greater Wealth
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Blackbeard
Kit Carson's Wooing