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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1890-07-05 (134 years old)

Place of Birth

Santa Barbara, California, USA

Bessie Eyton

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

Acting

1925

The Girl of Gold as Ada Tremaine

1924

Cheap Kisses as Maybelle Wescott

1918

1917

Beware of Strangers as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

1916

Twisted Trails as Sunshine West
The Crisis as Virginia Carvel

1915

Lassoing a Lion as Mary Valjon
His Fighting Blood as Hope McTrigger
The Primitive Way as Mildred Manning
The Fork in the Road as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte

1914

When the West Was Young as Nellie Halton
Chip of the Flying U as Dr. Cecil Grantham
The White Mouse as Jean Silver
Etienne of the Glad Heart as Marie Le Groux
The Wilderness Mail as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
In Defiance of the Law as Isobel Deane
Shotgun Jones as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
The Spoilers as Helen Chester

1913

Greater Wealth as Mrs. Ed Young
In the Long Ago as Starlight
Alone in the Jungle as Helen Brown

1912

The Mate of the Alden Bessie as The Captain's Daughter

1911

Kit Carson's Wooing as Lat-to-nick
Blackbeard as Conchita

Writing

1914