Bessie Eyton

Bessie Eyton

aka. Bessie Harrison

Birthday

1890-07-05

Deathday

1965-01-22

Place of Birth

Santa Barbara, California, USA

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.

Cast

Who Shall Take My Life?
0
Twisted Trails
5
The Spoilers
6.2
Chip of the Flying U
0
Etienne of the Glad Heart
0
Beware of Strangers
0
The Heart of Texas Ryan
4
When the West Was Young
0
Alone in the Jungle
6
The Wilderness Mail
0
Shotgun Jones
0
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
0
The Smuggler's Sister
0
The Crisis
5.3
Kit Carson's Wooing
0
His Fighting Blood
0
The Girl of Gold
0
The Red Blood of Courage
0
Cheap Kisses
0
The White Mouse
0
In the Long Ago
0
Greater Wealth
0
The Law North of 65
0
In Defiance of the Law
0
Blackbeard
0
The Fork in the Road
0
Lassoing a Lion
0
The Two Natures Within Him
0
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
0
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
4
The Great Experiment
0
The Primitive Way
0
The Way of a Man with a Maid
0

Crew

The Smuggler's Sister
0