Bessie Eyton

Birthday: 7/5/1890
Deathday: 1/22/1965
Place of birth: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Fame for: Acting
Also known as: Bessie Harrison

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.