Bessie Eyton
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.
Known for
- Who Shall Take My Life? (1917)
- Shotgun Jones (1914)
- The Crisis (1916)
- Blackbeard (1911)
- Cheap Kisses (1924)
- Etienne of the Glad Heart (1914)
- In the Days of the Thundering Herd (1914)
- The City of Purple Dreams (1918)
- The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917)
- In the Long Ago (1913)
- The Mate of the Alden Bessie (1912)
- Alone in the Jungle (1913)
- The Way of a Man with a Maid (1918)
- Chip of the Flying U (1914)
- Lend Me Your Name
- A Man of Honor (1919)
- The Girl of Gold (1925)
- Children of Banishment (1919)
- Kit Carson's Wooing (1911)
- The Smuggler's Sister (1914)