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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 5, 1890
Died
January 22, 1965
Place of Birth
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Also Known As
- Bessie Harrison
Bessie Eyton
0.2 Popularity
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
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Ada Tremaine
The Girl of Gold
1925
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Maybelle Wescott
Cheap Kisses
1924
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Gladys
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918
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Mary Moran
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
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Jeanne
The Law North of 65
1917
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Texas Ryan
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
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Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
Beware of Strangers
1917
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Virginia Carvel
The Crisis
1916
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Sunshine West
Twisted Trails
1916
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Mary Bishop
The Two Natures Within Him
1915
Credits
The Girl of Gold
as Ada Tremaine
1925
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Cheap Kisses
as Maybelle Wescott
1924
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The Way of a Man with a Maid
as Gladys
1918
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Who Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran
1917
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The Law North of 65
as Jeanne
1917
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The Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan
1917
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Beware of Strangers
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
1917
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The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel
1916
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Twisted Trails
as Sunshine West
1916
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The Two Natures Within Him
as Mary Bishop
1915
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The Great Experiment
as Ritta
1915
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The Fork in the Road
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
1915
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The Red Blood of Courage
as Lydia Duane
1915
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The Primitive Way
as Mildred Manning
1915
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His Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger
1915
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Lassoing a Lion
as Mary Valjon
1915
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In the Days of the Thundering Herd
as Sally Madison
1914
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When the West Was Young
as Nellie Halton
1914
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Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
1914
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The White Mouse
as Jean Silver
1914
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Etienne of the Glad Heart
as Marie Le Groux
1914
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The Wilderness Mail
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
1914
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In Defiance of the Law
as Isobel Deane
1914
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Shotgun Jones
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
1914
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The Spoilers
as Helen Chester
1914
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Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914
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The Smuggler's Sister
as Bessie
1914
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Alone in the Jungle
as Helen Brown
1913
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In the Long Ago
as Starlight
1913
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Greater Wealth
as Mrs. Ed Young
1913
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The Mate of the Alden Bessie
as The Captain's Daughter
1912
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Blackbeard
as Conchita
1911
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Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick
1911
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