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