Acting
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.
Filmography
The Girl of Gold
Film · 1925
Cheap Kisses
Film · 1924
The Usurper
Film · 1919
A Man of Honor
Film · 1919
Children of Banishment
Film · 1919
The Way of a Man with a Maid
Film · 1918
The Still Alarm
Film · 1918
The City of Purple Dreams
Film · 1918
Who Shall Take My Life?
Film · 1917
The Law North of 65
Film · 1917
Beware of Strangers
Film · 1917
The Heart of Texas Ryan
Film · 1917
Twisted Trails
Film · 1916
The Crisis
Film · 1916
Lassoing a Lion
Film · 1915
His Fighting Blood
Film · 1915
The Primitive Way
Film · 1915
The Red Blood of Courage
Film · 1915
The Fork in the Road
Film · 1915
The Great Experiment
Film · 1915
The Two Natures Within Him
Film · 1915
When the West Was Young
Film · 1914
Chip of the Flying U
Film · 1914
The White Mouse
Film · 1914
Etienne of the Glad Heart
Film · 1914
The Wilderness Mail
Film · 1914
In Defiance of the Law
Film · 1914
The Smuggler's Sister
Film · 1914
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Film · 1914
Shotgun Jones
Film · 1914
The Spoilers
Film · 1914
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Film · 1914
Greater Wealth
Film · 1913
In the Long Ago
Film · 1913
Alone in the Jungle
Film · 1913
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Film · 1912
Kit Carson's Wooing
Film · 1911
Blackbeard
Film · 1911
Lend Me Your Name
Film