Bessie Eyton

Born: 1890-07-05

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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The Spoilers

as Helen Chester
Released: 1914-04-10

The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the...

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Beware of Strangers

as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
Released: 1917-02-10

Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell

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In the Long Ago

as Starlight
Released: 1913-05-15

A picture which illustrates an Indian myth, a poetic love story of the long ago, in which a...

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Chip of the Flying U

as Dr. Cecil Grantham
Released: 1914-08-29

When he's fired from his bank job aimless Claude Bennett decides to head West. Once he gets a...

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Kit Carson's Wooing

as Lat-to-nick
Released: 1911-09-11

Kit Carson, scout, hunter, trapper and soldier-of-fortune, has won the enmity of Azakah, the...

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Twisted Trails

as Sunshine West
Released: 1916-12-11

Ranch foreman Tom Snow is being hounded by sheriff Luke Fisher and his deputy, Brad Foster. The...

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Alone in the Jungle

as Helen Brown
Released: 1913-06-14

The Brown family, which consists of Hon. John Brown, his wife, two sons, Harold and Billy, and a...

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The Crisis

as Virginia Carvel
Released: 1916-12-21

Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel,...

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Cheap Kisses

as Maybelle Wescott
Released: 1924-12-21

Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes...

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Etienne of the Glad Heart

as Marie Le Groux
Released: 1914-08-03

Etienne Cloquet, a young woodsman, is in love with Marie, the pretty daughter of Paul Le Groux,...

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Blackbeard

as Conchita
Released: 1911-11-23

Pirates attack the town of Martinique and capture the governor. But the townspeople rally back...

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Shotgun Jones

as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
Released: 1914-04-27

Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of...

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Who Shall Take My Life?

as Mary Moran
Released: 1917-12-01

A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed....

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The Smuggler's Sister

as Bessie
Released: 1914-03-03

A smuggler is protected by his sister, who is loved by a revenue officer.

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The Heart of Texas Ryan

as Texas Ryan
Released: 1917-02-25

To get in the good graces of his rancher boss’s daughter, cowboy Single Shot captures a cattle...

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In the Days of the Thundering Herd

as Sally Madison
Released: 1914-11-30

Tom and Sally are the only survivors when their wagon train is attacked by Swift Wing's braves....

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The Mate of the Alden Bessie

as The Captain's Daughter
Released: 1912-01-04

The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest...

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The Girl of Gold

as Ada Tremaine
Released: 1925-02-16

Lucius Merrimore is the wealthy owner of a mine called "the Gold Girl," and as a result his...

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