Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 5, 1890
Place of Birth
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Also Known As
- Bessie Harrison
Bessie Eyton
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.
Known For - Movies
The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel
The Spoilers
as Helen Chester
The City of Purple Dreams
as Kathlyn Otis
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Greater Wealth
as Mrs. Ed Young
Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
as Sally Madison
Shotgun Jones
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
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Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Alone in the Jungle
as Helen Brown
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In Defiance of the Law
as Isobel Deane