Bessie Eyton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 5, 1890
- Died
- January 22, 1965
- Birthplace
- 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
Lend Me Your Name TBA
as Sophronia
The Girl of Gold 1925
as Ada Tremaine
Cheap Kisses 1924
as Maybelle Wescott
The Usurper 1919
as Margaret Quentin
A Man of Honor 1919
as Christabel Beaumont
Children of Banishment 1919
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
The Way of a Man with a Maid 1918
as Gladys
The Still Alarm 1918
as Eleanor Fordham
The City of Purple Dreams 1918
as Kathlyn Otis
Who Shall Take My Life? 1917
as Mary Moran
- The Law North of 65
The Law North of 65 1917
as Jeanne
The Heart of Texas Ryan 1917
as Texas Ryan
Beware of Strangers 1917
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
The Crisis 1916
as Virginia Carvel
Twisted Trails 1916
as Sunshine West
- The Two Natures Within Him
The Two Natures Within Him 1915
as Mary Bishop
- The Great Experiment
The Great Experiment 1915
as Ritta
- The Fork in the Road
The Fork in the Road 1915
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
- The Red Blood of Courage
The Red Blood of Courage 1915
as Lydia Duane
- The Primitive Way
The Primitive Way 1915
as Mildred Manning
- His Fighting Blood
His Fighting Blood 1915
as Hope McTrigger
- Lassoing a Lion
Lassoing a Lion 1915
as Mary Valjon
In the Days of the Thundering Herd 1914
as Sally Madison
- When the West Was Young
When the West Was Young 1914
as Nellie Halton
Chip of the Flying U 1914
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
- The White Mouse
The White Mouse 1914
as Jean Silver
Etienne of the Glad Heart 1914
as Marie Le Groux
- The Wilderness Mail
The Wilderness Mail 1914
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
- In Defiance of the Law
In Defiance of the Law 1914
as Isobel Deane
Shotgun Jones 1914
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
The Spoilers 1914
as Helen Chester
- Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Kid Pink and the Maharajah 1914
Actor
The Smuggler's Sister 1914
as Bessie, Writer
Alone in the Jungle 1913
as Helen Brown
In the Long Ago 1913
as Starlight
- Greater Wealth
Greater Wealth 1913
as Mrs. Ed Young
The Mate of the Alden Bessie 1912
as The Captain's Daughter
Blackbeard 1911
as Conchita
Kit Carson's Wooing 1911
as Lat-to-nick
Credits from TMDB.