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.
Known For
24 titles
Cheap Kisses
Shotgun Jones
Twisted Trails
The Girl of Gold
Chip of the Flying U
The Spoilers
Alone in the Jungle
Kit Carson's Wooing
Who Shall Take My Life?
Beware of Strangers
The Heart of Texas Ryan
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Etienne of the Glad Heart
The Crisis
The Way of a Man with a Maid
In the Long Ago
The City of Purple Dreams
The Still Alarm
The Usurper
The Smuggler's Sister
Blackbeard
A Man of Honor
Children of Banishment
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
