Known for

Acting

Born

Jul 5, 1890

Died

Jan 22, 1965 (aged 74)

Place of birth

Santa Barbara, California, USA

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.

Titles

Cheap Kisses

Movie • 1924

In the Days of the Thundering Herd

Movie • 1914

Beware of Strangers

Movie • 1917

The Spoilers

Movie • 1914

Chip of the Flying U

Movie • 1914

Alone in the Jungle

Movie • 1913

The Heart of Texas Ryan

Movie • 1917

Kit Carson's Wooing

Movie • 1911

Twisted Trails

Movie • 1916