
Actor
Born July 5, 1890 in 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.

Lend Me Your Name
Sophronia

The Girl of Gold
Ada Tremaine

Cheap Kisses
Maybelle Wescott

The Usurper
Margaret Quentin

A Man of Honor
Christabel Beaumont

Children of Banishment
Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie

The Way of a Man with a Maid
Gladys

The Still Alarm
Eleanor Fordham

The City of Purple Dreams
Kathlyn Otis

Who Shall Take My Life?
Mary Moran

The Heart of Texas Ryan
Texas Ryan

Beware of Strangers
Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

The Crisis
Virginia Carvel

Twisted Trails
Sunshine West

In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Sally Madison

Chip of the Flying U
Dr. Cecil Grantham

Etienne of the Glad Heart
Marie Le Groux

Shotgun Jones
Sally Lattier - the Daughter

The Spoilers
Helen Chester

The Smuggler's Sister
Bessie

Alone in the Jungle
Helen Brown

In the Long Ago
Starlight

The Mate of the Alden Bessie
The Captain's Daughter

Blackbeard
Conchita

Kit Carson's Wooing
Lat-to-nick