Bessie Eyton
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1890-07-05
Deathday 1965-01-22 (74 years old)
Place of Birth Santa Barbara, California, USA
Also Known As Bessie Harrison
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
Actor
as Ada Tremaine
as Maybelle Wescott
as Mary Moran
as Jeanne
as Texas Ryan
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
as Virginia Carvel
as Sunshine West
as Mary Bishop
as Ritta
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
as Lydia Duane
as Mildred Manning
as Hope McTrigger
as Sally Madison
as Nellie Halton
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
as Jean Silver
as Marie Le Groux
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
as Isobel Deane
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
as Helen Chester
as Bessie
as Helen Brown
as Starlight
as Mrs. Ed Young
as The Captain's Daughter
as Conchita
as Lat-to-nick
Writer
as Writer