07/05/1890
Santa Barbara, California, USA:
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.
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The Girl of Gold (1925) as Ada Tremaine |
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Cheap Kisses (1924) as Maybelle Wescott |
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The Usurper (1919) as Margaret Quentin |
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A Man of Honor (1919) as Christabel Beaumont |
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Children of Banishment (1919) as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie |
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The Way of a Man with a Maid (1918) as Gladys |
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The Still Alarm (1918) as Eleanor Fordham |
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The City of Purple Dreams (1918) as Kathlyn Otis |
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Who Shall Take My Life? (1917) as Mary Moran |
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The Law North of 65 (1917) as Jeanne |
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The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917) as Texas Ryan |
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Beware of Strangers (1917) as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter |
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The Crisis (1916) as Virginia Carvel |
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Twisted Trails (1916) as Sunshine West |
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The Two Natures Within Him (1915) as Mary Bishop |
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The Great Experiment (1915) as Ritta |
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The Fork in the Road (1915) as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte |
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The Red Blood of Courage (1915) as Lydia Duane |
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The Primitive Way (1915) as Mildred Manning |
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His Fighting Blood (1915) as Hope McTrigger |
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Lassoing a Lion (1915) as Mary Valjon |
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In the Days of the Thundering Herd (1914) as Sally Madison |
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When the West Was Young (1914) as Nellie Halton |
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Chip of the Flying U (1914) as Dr. Cecil Grantham |
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The White Mouse (1914) as Jean Silver |
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Etienne of the Glad Heart (1914) as Marie Le Groux |
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The Wilderness Mail (1914) as Joan, a Young French-Canadian |
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In Defiance of the Law (1914) as Isobel Deane |
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Shotgun Jones (1914) as Sally Lattier - the Daughter |
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The Spoilers (1914) as Helen Chester |
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Kid Pink and the Maharajah (1914) as |
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The Smuggler's Sister (1914) as Bessie |
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Alone in the Jungle (1913) as Helen Brown |
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In the Long Ago (1913) as Starlight |
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Greater Wealth (1913) as Mrs. Ed Young |
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The Mate of the Alden Bessie (1912) as The Captain's Daughter |
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Blackbeard (1911) as Conchita |
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Kit Carson's Wooing (1911) as Lat-to-nick |
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The Smuggler's Sister (1914) Writer |