Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
32
Gender
Female
Birthday
July 05, 1890 ( 75 years old )
Place of Birth
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Also Known As
Bessie Harrison
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?
1917-12-01The Law North of 65
1917-10-06Twisted Trails
1916-12-11Kit Carson's Wooing
1911-09-11Chip of the Flying U
1914-08-29The White Mouse
1914-08-24When the West Was Young
1914-09-07Greater Wealth
1913-01-01Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914-08-03The Wilderness Mail
1914-07-13