Bessie Eyton
Birthday: 1890-07-05
Place of Birth: Santa Barbara, California, USA
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.
Movies
Who Shall Take My Life?
A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. After...
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The Law North of 65
Pierre, away in the Northland, loves Jeanne. His love is returned and they are engaged to be married...
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Twisted Trails
Ranch foreman Tom Snow is being hounded by sheriff Luke Fisher and his deputy, Brad Foster. The pair...
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Kit Carson's Wooing
Kit Carson, scout, hunter, trapper and soldier-of-fortune, has won the enmity of Azakah, the cruel c...
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When the West Was Young
Ned Halton and his young bride, Nellie, depart from the east in a prairie schooner to seek a home in...
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Chip of the Flying U
When he's fired from his bank job aimless Claude Bennett decides to head West. Once he gets a job as...
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The White Mouse
Billy Silver, a young trapper, lives with his wife and little baby up in the region of the snows. Bi...
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Etienne of the Glad Heart
Etienne Cloquet, a young woodsman, is in love with Marie, the pretty daughter of Paul Le Groux, a sa...
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Greater Wealth
John Sharon, a steel magnate is immensely successful from the worldly point of view, while Ed Young,...
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The Wilderness Mail
Jan, the hunter, is in love with Marie, a French-Canadian girl. The same charmer has captivated Otto...
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In Defiance of the Law
Billy McVeigh, a member of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, runs amuck another person of this ser...
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The Smuggler's Sister
A smuggler is protected by his sister, who is loved by a revenue officer....
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Cheap Kisses
Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes wealthy,...
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Lassoing a Lion
Simon Valjon is inordinately jealous of his pretty, young wife, Mary, who, however, never gives him ...
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His Fighting Blood
In the mountains and hills of Kentucky, a feud has raged for many years between the McTriggers and t...
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The Red Blood of Courage
Professor Duane, an ethnologist, and his assistant, Roscoe Harding, plan a journey into the wilds of...
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The Primitive Way
Mildred Manning is the spoiled daughter of wealthy parents. She has a host of admirers, but does not...
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The Fork in the Road
In the prophecy of a palm reading hag that he will find his fate through his bravery, Rudolph, the i...
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The Great Experiment
John Morning, rich, without family, dreams of things that might have been. He discovers a poverty-st...
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The Two Natures Within Him
The Rev. William Morris is the director of a small church near a state penitentiary. He is convinced...
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Kid Pink and the Maharajah
A serio-comic tale shows wherein the East and the West strangely mingle despite Kipling's declaratio...
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Shotgun Jones
Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cat...
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The Girl of Gold
Lucius Merrimore is the wealthy owner of a mine called "the Gold Girl," and as a result his daughter...
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In the Long Ago
A picture which illustrates an Indian myth, a poetic love story of the long ago, in which a despised...
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Blackbeard
Pirates attack the town of Martinique and capture the governor. But the townspeople rally back in a ...
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The Mate of the Alden Bessie
The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest pro...
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The Spoilers
The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Go...
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Alone in the Jungle
The Brown family, which consists of Hon. John Brown, his wife, two sons, Harold and Billy, and a you...
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In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Tom and Sally are the only survivors when their wagon train is attacked by Swift Wing's braves. Star...
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The Crisis
Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the da...
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Beware of Strangers
Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell...
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The Heart of Texas Ryan
To get in the good graces of his rancher boss’s daughter, cowboy Single Shot captures a cattle raide...
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The Way of a Man with a Maid
When shipping clerk Arthur McArney falls in love with pretty stenographer Elsa Owenson, he finds him...
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The Still Alarm
"Bird," a clerk in Fordham's drugstore, agrees to place a large sum of money in the store's safe for...
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The City of Purple Dreams
Miss Otis nearly hits a derelict with her car, and out of sympathy she gives him some money and advi...
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A Man of Honor
On a treasure hunt in the tropics, adventurer Mortimer Gregg discovers beautiful Horse Island, and u...
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Children of Banishment
Foreman Dick Bream, of the lumber firm of Hill and Burchard, resigns from his job to buy a profitabl...
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