Person

Bessie Eyton

Acting · 1890–1965 · Santa Barbara, California, USA

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.

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  Shotgun Jones

  Sally Lattier - the Daughter

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  The Crisis

  Virginia Carvel

• The Red Blood of Courage

  Lydia Duane

• When the West Was Young

  Nellie Halton

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  The Still Alarm

  Eleanor Fordham

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  In the Long Ago

  Starlight

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  Beware of Strangers

  Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

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  Children of Banishment

  Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie

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  The City of Purple Dreams

  Kathlyn Otis

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  In the Days of the Thundering Herd

  Sally Madison

• 1925The Girl of GoldAda Tremaine
• 1924Cheap KissesMaybelle Wescott
• 1919The UsurperMargaret Quentin
• 1919A Man of HonorChristabel Beaumont
• 1919Children of BanishmentMrs. Eloise Mackenzie
• 1918The Way of a Man with a MaidGladys
• 1918The Still AlarmEleanor Fordham
• 1918The City of Purple DreamsKathlyn Otis
• 1917Who Shall Take My Life?Mary Moran
• 1917The Law North of 65Jeanne
• 1917The Heart of Texas RyanTexas Ryan
• 1917Beware of StrangersMadeleine, Mentor's Daughter
• 1916The CrisisVirginia Carvel
• 1916Twisted TrailsSunshine West
• 1915The Two Natures Within HimMary Bishop
• 1915The Great ExperimentRitta
• 1915The Fork in the RoadElsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
• 1915The Red Blood of CourageLydia Duane
• 1915The Primitive WayMildred Manning
• 1915His Fighting BloodHope McTrigger
• 1915Lassoing a LionMary Valjon
• 1914In the Days of the Thundering HerdSally Madison
• 1914When the West Was YoungNellie Halton
• 1914Chip of the Flying UDr. Cecil Grantham
• 1914The White MouseJean Silver
• 1914Etienne of the Glad HeartMarie Le Groux
• 1914The Wilderness MailJoan, a Young French-Canadian
• 1914In Defiance of the LawIsobel Deane
• 1914Shotgun JonesSally Lattier - the Daughter
• 1914The SpoilersHelen Chester
• 1914Kid Pink and the Maharajah
• 1914The Smuggler's SisterBessie
• 1913Alone in the JungleHelen Brown
• 1913In the Long AgoStarlight
• 1913Greater WealthMrs. Ed Young
• 1912The Mate of the Alden BessieThe Captain's Daughter
• 1911BlackbeardConchita
• 1911Kit Carson's WooingLat-to-nick
• —Lend Me Your NameSophronia