Acting
Bessie Eyton
Also Known As: Bessie Harrison
Birth Date
July 5, 1890
Death Date
January 22, 1965
(passed away at 74)
Place of Birth
Santa Barbara, California, USA
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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
Shotgun Jones
Sally Lattier - the Daughter
1914
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The Crisis
Virginia Carvel
1916
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Greater Wealth
Mrs. Ed Young
1913
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The Red Blood of Courage
Lydia Duane
1915
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When the West Was Young
Nellie Halton
1914
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Cheap Kisses
Maybelle Wescott
1924
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Blackbeard
Conchita
1911
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Beware of Strangers
Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
1917
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Etienne of the Glad Heart
Marie Le Groux
1914
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The White Mouse
Jean Silver
1914
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Who Shall Take My Life?
Mary Moran
1917
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The Wilderness Mail
Joan, a Young French-Canadian
1914
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The Still Alarm
Eleanor Fordham
1918
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In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Sally Madison
1914
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Children of Banishment
Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
1919
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In the Long Ago
Starlight
1913
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The City of Purple Dreams
Kathlyn Otis
1918
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Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914
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Movie
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
The Captain's Daughter
1912
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The Great Experiment
Ritta
1915