🎭 Actor
Bessie Eyton
🎂 Born 5 July 1890 (age 74)✝ 22 January 1965📍 Santa Barbara, California, USA
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Popularity Score
24
Acting Credits
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.
Known For
Full Filmography(24 films)
YearTitleRating
1914The Spoilers★ 6.21913In the Long Ago—1916The Crisis★ 5.31917The Heart of Texas Ryan★ 3.81918The City of Purple Dreams—1917Who Shall Take My Life?—1924Cheap Kisses★ 10.01918The Still Alarm—1918The Way of a Man with a Maid★ 7.01919A Man of Honor★ 7.01914Shotgun Jones—1914Etienne of the Glad Heart—1914In the Days of the Thundering Herd—1911Kit Carson's Wooing—1911Blackbeard★ 8.01925The Girl of Gold★ 9.01914Chip of the Flying U—1912The Mate of the Alden Bessie★ 4.01919Children of Banishment★ 9.01919The Usurper★ 9.01917Beware of Strangers—1913Alone in the Jungle★ 6.01914The Smuggler's Sister—1916Twisted Trails★ 5.0