Bessie Eyton

Bessie Eyton

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

05/07/1890

Day of Death

22/01/1965
(75) years old

Place of Birth

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 ... Read More

Filmography

Cast

1925

The Girl of Gold

as Ada Tremaine

1924

Cheap Kisses

as Maybelle Wescott

1919

The Usurper

as Margaret Quentin

1918

The Still Alarm

as Eleanor Fordham

1918

The City of Purple Dreams

as Kathlyn Otis

1917

Who Shall Take My Life?

as Mary Moran

1917

The Law North of 65

as Jeanne

1917

The Heart of Texas Ryan

as Texas Ryan

1917

Beware of Strangers

as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

1916

The Crisis

as Virginia Carvel

1916

Twisted Trails

as Sunshine West

1915

The Two Natures Within Him

as Mary Bishop

1915

The Fork in the Road

as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte

1915

The Red Blood of Courage

as Lydia Duane

1915

The Primitive Way

as Mildred Manning

1915

His Fighting Blood

as Hope McTrigger

1915

Lassoing a Lion

as Mary Valjon

1914

When the West Was Young

as Nellie Halton

1914

Chip of the Flying U

as Dr. Cecil Grantham

1914

The White Mouse

as Jean Silver

1914

Etienne of the Glad Heart

as Marie Le Groux

1914

The Wilderness Mail

as Joan, a Young French-Canadian

1914

In Defiance of the Law

as Isobel Deane

1914

Shotgun Jones

as Sally Lattier - the Daughter

1914

The Spoilers

as Helen Chester

1913

Alone in the Jungle

as Helen Brown

1913

In the Long Ago

as Starlight

1913

Greater Wealth

as Mrs. Ed Young

1912

The Mate of the Alden Bessie

as The Captain's Daughter

1911

Blackbeard

as Conchita

1911

Kit Carson's Wooing

as Lat-to-nick

Crew