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