Actor
Bessie Eyton
July 5, 1890 · 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.
Often works with
Tom Santschi
8 titles together
The Crisis, The Spoilers, The Two Natures Within Him
Lafe McKee
6 titles together
The Two Natures Within Him, The Great Experiment, The Fork in the Road
Tom Mix
4 titles together
The Heart of Texas Ryan, The Law North of 65, Twisted Trails
Wheeler Oakman
4 titles together
The Spoilers, The Law North of 65, When the West Was Young
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Frank Clark
4 titles together
The Spoilers, Twisted Trails, When the West Was Young
George Fawcett
2 titles together
The Heart of Texas Ryan, The Crisis
Full filmography · 32
Lend Me Your Name
as Sophronia
Upcoming
The Girl of Gold
as Ada Tremaine
1925
Cheap Kisses
as Maybelle Wescott
1924
The Usurper
as Margaret Quentin
1919
A Man of Honor
as Christabel Beaumont
1919
Children of Banishment
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
1919
The Way of a Man with a Maid
as Gladys
1918
The Still Alarm
as Eleanor Fordham
1918
The City of Purple Dreams
as Kathlyn Otis
1918The Law North of 65
as Jeanne
1917
The Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan
1917
Beware of Strangers
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
1917