Bessie Eyton
Acting
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.
Filmography
The Usurper
as Margaret Quentin
A Man of Honor
as Christabel Beaumont
Children of Banishment
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
The Way of a Man with a Maid
as Gladys
The Still Alarm
as Eleanor Fordham
The City of Purple Dreams
as Kathlyn Otis
Who Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran
The Law North of 65
as Jeanne
The Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan
Beware of Strangers
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel
Twisted Trails
as Sunshine West
The Two Natures Within Him
as Mary Bishop
The Great Experiment
as Ritta
The Fork in the Road
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
The Red Blood of Courage
as Lydia Duane
The Primitive Way
as Mildred Manning
His Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger
Lassoing a Lion
as Mary Valjon
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
as Sally Madison
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
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
The Smuggler's Sister
as Bessie
Alone in the Jungle
as Helen Brown
In the Long Ago
as Starlight
Greater Wealth
as Mrs. Ed Young
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
as The Captain's Daughter
Blackbeard
as Conchita
Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick