
Bessie Eyton
Known for Acting · 38 credits
- Born
- 1890-07-05
- Died
- 1965-01-22
- Place of birth
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Also known as
- Bessie Harrison
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.
Known For
Movies (38)

Shotgun Jones
1914
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter

Twisted Trails
1916
as Sunshine West
Greater Wealth
1913
as Mrs. Ed Young
His Fighting Blood
1915
as Hope McTrigger

The Girl of Gold
1925
as Ada Tremaine

The Crisis
1916
as Virginia Carvel

The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918
as Gladys

Beware of Strangers
1917
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
as Mary Moran
Lassoing a Lion
1915
as Mary Valjon
The Great Experiment
1915
as Ritta
The Primitive Way
1915
as Mildred Manning

The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912
as The Captain's Daughter
The White Mouse
1914
as Jean Silver

The Usurper
1919
as Margaret Quentin

The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
as Texas Ryan
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914

A Man of Honor
1919
as Christabel Beaumont
The Two Natures Within Him
1915
as Mary Bishop

In the Long Ago
1913
as Starlight

Alone in the Jungle
1913
as Helen Brown
The Red Blood of Courage
1915
as Lydia Duane

Cheap Kisses
1924
as Maybelle Wescott
The Wilderness Mail
1914
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
When the West Was Young
1914
as Nellie Halton

The City of Purple Dreams
1918
as Kathlyn Otis

The Spoilers
1914
as Helen Chester
The Fork in the Road
1915
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte

Kit Carson's Wooing
1911
as Lat-to-nick
The Law North of 65
1917
as Jeanne

In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
as Sally Madison

Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914
as Marie Le Groux

Chip of the Flying U
1914
as Dr. Cecil Grantham

The Still Alarm
1918
as Eleanor Fordham

Blackbeard
1911
as Conchita
In Defiance of the Law
1914
as Isobel Deane

The Smuggler's Sister
1914
as Bessie

Children of Banishment
1919
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
About 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. With 38 credits spanning from 1911 to 1925, Bessie Eyton has appeared in 38 films and 0 TV shows.
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Most Popular Bessie Eyton Movies
- Shotgun Jones (1914) — as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
- Twisted Trails (1916) — as Sunshine West
- Greater Wealth (1913) — as Mrs. Ed Young
- His Fighting Blood (1915) — as Hope McTrigger
- The Girl of Gold (1925) — as Ada Tremaine
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