Bessie Eyton
July 5, 1890 (134 years old) in 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.
Known For
Credits
- 1925 · The Girl of Gold as Ada Tremaine
- 1924 · Cheap Kisses as Maybelle Wescott
- 1917 · Who Shall Take My Life? as Mary Moran
- 1917 · The Law North of 65 as Jeanne
- 1917 · The Heart of Texas Ryan as Texas Ryan
- 1917 · Beware of Strangers as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
- 1916 · The Crisis as Virginia Carvel
- 1916 · Twisted Trails as Sunshine West
- 1915 · The Two Natures Within Him as Mary Bishop
- 1915 · The Great Experiment as Ritta
- 1915 · The Fork in the Road as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
- 1915 · The Red Blood of Courage as Lydia Duane
- 1915 · The Primitive Way as Mildred Manning
- 1915 · His Fighting Blood as Hope McTrigger
- 1915 · Lassoing a Lion as
- 1914 · In the Days of the Thundering Herd as Sally Madison
- 1914 · When the West Was Young as Nellie Halton
- 1914 · Chip of the Flying U as Dr. Cecil Grantham
- 1914 · The White Mouse as Jean Silver
- 1914 · Etienne of the Glad Heart as Marie Le Groux
- 1914 · The Wilderness Mail as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
- 1914 · In Defiance of the Law as Isobel Deane
- 1914 · Shotgun Jones as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
- 1914 · The Spoilers as Helen Chester
- 1914 · Kid Pink and the Maharajah as
- 1914 · The Smuggler's Sister as Bessie
- 1913 · Alone in the Jungle as Helen Brown
- 1913 · In the Long Ago as Starlight
- 1913 · Greater Wealth as Mrs. Ed Young
- 1912 · The Mate of the Alden Bessie as The Captain's Daughter
- 1911 · Blackbeard as Conchita
- 1911 · Kit Carson's Wooing as Lat-to-nick