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.
Acting
Movie
The Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan
1917
Movie
The Spoilers
as Helen Chester
1914
Movie
The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel
1916
Movie
Blackbeard
as Conchita
1911
Movie
The Law North of 65
as Jeanne
1917
Movie
Twisted Trails
as Sunshine West
1916
Movie
When the West Was Young
as Nellie Halton
1914
Movie
Cheap Kisses
as Maybelle Wescott
1924
Movie
Lassoing a Lion
as Mary Valjon
1915
Movie
His Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger
1915
Movie
The Red Blood of Courage
as Lydia Duane
1915
Movie
The Fork in the Road
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
1915
Movie
The Great Experiment
as Ritta
1915
Movie
The Two Natures Within Him
as Mary Bishop
1915
Movie
The Girl of Gold
as Ada Tremaine
1925
Movie
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
as The Captain's Daughter
1912
Movie
Alone in the Jungle
as Helen Brown
1913
Movie
The Way of a Man with a Maid
as Gladys
1918
Movie
The Usurper
as Margaret Quentin
1919
Movie
A Man of Honor
as Christabel Beaumont
1919
Movie
Children of Banishment
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
1919
Movie
Who Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran
1917
Movie
Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick
1911
Movie
Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
1914
