Actor

Bessie Eyton

Birthday: July 5, 1890

Born in: 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.

Movie Credits

The Girl of Gold (1925) as Ada Tremaine
Age: 34
Cheap Kisses (1924) as Maybelle Wescott
Age: 34
The Usurper (1919) as Margaret Quentin
Age: 28
A Man of Honor (1919) as Christabel Beaumont
Age: 28
Children of Banishment (1919) as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
Age: 28
The Way of a Man with a Maid (1918) as Gladys
Age: 28
The Still Alarm (1918) as Eleanor Fordham
Age: 28
The City of Purple Dreams (1918) as Kathlyn Otis
Age: 27
Who Shall Take My Life? (1917) as Mary Moran
Age: 27
The Law North of 65 (1917) as Jeanne
Age: 27
The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917) as Texas Ryan
Age: 26
Beware of Strangers (1917) as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
Age: 26
The Crisis (1916) as Virginia Carvel
Age: 26
Twisted Trails (1916) as Sunshine West
Age: 26
The Two Natures Within Him (1915) as Mary Bishop
Age: 24
The Great Experiment (1915) as Ritta
Age: 24
The Fork in the Road (1915) as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
Age: 24
The Red Blood of Courage (1915) as Lydia Duane
Age: 24
The Primitive Way (1915) as Mildred Manning
Age: 24
His Fighting Blood (1915) as Hope McTrigger
Age: 24
Lassoing a Lion (1915) as Mary Valjon
Age: 24
In the Days of the Thundering Herd (1914) as Sally Madison
Age: 24
When the West Was Young (1914) as Nellie Halton
Age: 24
Chip of the Flying U (1914) as Dr. Cecil Grantham
Age: 24
The White Mouse (1914) as Jean Silver
Age: 24
Etienne of the Glad Heart (1914) as Marie Le Groux
Age: 24
The Wilderness Mail (1914) as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
Age: 24
In Defiance of the Law (1914) as Isobel Deane
Age: 23
Shotgun Jones (1914) as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
Age: 23
The Spoilers (1914) as Helen Chester
Age: 23
Kid Pink and the Maharajah (1914)
Age: 23
The Smuggler's Sister (1914) as Bessie
Age: 23
Alone in the Jungle (1913) as Helen Brown
Age: 22
In the Long Ago (1913) as Starlight
Age: 22
Greater Wealth (1913) as Mrs. Ed Young
Age: 22
The Mate of the Alden Bessie (1912) as The Captain's Daughter
Age: 21
Blackbeard (1911) as Conchita
Age: 21
Kit Carson's Wooing (1911) as Lat-to-nick
Age: 21