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24
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Actor
Bessie Eyton
Acting
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Movies: 24Series: 0Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 1690990
IMDb ID: nm0264286
Known for: Acting
Born: July 5, 1890
Died: January 22, 1965
Age: 74
Place of birth: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1911 - 1925
Years active: 15
Wikidata: Q2899921
Also known as
Bessie Harrison
Other jobs
Writer (1)
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.
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Movie credits linked with Bessie Eyton.
The Girl of Gold
as Ada Tremaine
1925 Movie
Cheap Kisses
as Maybelle Wescott
1924 Movie
The Usurper
as Margaret Quentin
1919 Movie
A Man of Honor
as Christabel Beaumont
1919 Movie
Children of Banishment
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
1919 Movie
The Way of a Man with a Maid
as Gladys
1918 Movie
The Still Alarm
as Eleanor Fordham
1918 Movie
The City of Purple Dreams
as Kathlyn Otis
1918 Movie
Who Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran
1917 Movie
4.0
The Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan
1917 Movie
Beware of Strangers
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
1917 Movie
5.3
The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel
1916 Movie
5.0
Twisted Trails
as Sunshine West
1916 Movie
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
as Sally Madison
1914 Movie
Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
1914 Movie
Etienne of the Glad Heart
as Marie Le Groux
1914 Movie
Shotgun Jones
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
1914 Movie
6.2
The Spoilers
as Helen Chester
1914 Movie
The Smuggler's Sister
as Bessie
1914 Movie
6.0
Alone in the Jungle
as Helen Brown
1913 Movie
In the Long Ago
as Starlight
1913 Movie
4.0
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
as The Captain's Daughter
1912 Movie
Blackbeard
as Conchita
1911 Movie
Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick
1911 Movie