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Bessie Eyton
Bessie Eyton

Bessie Eyton

ActingBorn July 5, 1890Died January 22, 1965 (age 74)Santa Barbara, California, USA

Biography

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

1925
The Girl of Gold

as Ada Tremaine

Movie
1924
Cheap Kisses

as Maybelle Wescott

Movie
1919
The Usurper

as Margaret Quentin

Movie
1919
A Man of Honor

as Christabel Beaumont

Movie
1919
Children of Banishment

as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie

Movie
1918
The Still Alarm

as Eleanor Fordham

Movie
1918Movie
1917Movie
1917Movie
1917Movie
1917
Beware of Strangers

as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

Movie
1916
The Crisis

as Virginia Carvel

Movie
1916
Twisted Trails

as Sunshine West

Movie
1915Movie
1915Movie
1915
The Fork in the Road

as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte

Movie
1915Movie
1915
The Primitive Way

as Mildred Manning

Movie
1915
His Fighting Blood

as Hope McTrigger

Movie
1915
Lassoing a Lion

as Mary Valjon

Movie
1914Movie
1914
When the West Was Young

as Nellie Halton

Movie
1914
Chip of the Flying U

as Dr. Cecil Grantham

Movie
1914
The White Mouse

as Jean Silver

Movie
1914
Etienne of the Glad Heart

as Marie Le Groux

Movie
1914
The Wilderness Mail

as Joan, a Young French-Canadian

Movie
1914
In Defiance of the Law

as Isobel Deane

Movie
1914
Shotgun Jones

as Sally Lattier - the Daughter

Movie
1914
The Spoilers

as Helen Chester

Movie
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1913
Alone in the Jungle

as Helen Brown

Movie
1913
In the Long Ago

as Starlight

Movie
1913
Greater Wealth

as Mrs. Ed Young

Movie
1912
The Mate of the Alden Bessie

as The Captain's Daughter

Movie
1911
Blackbeard

as Conchita

Movie
1911
Kit Carson's Wooing

as Lat-to-nick

Movie
Lend Me Your Name

as Sophronia

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJuly 5, 1890
Day of DeathJanuary 22, 1965
Place of BirthSanta Barbara, California, USA
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