Jul 5, 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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| Movie | 1917 | Who Shall Take My Life? | Mary Moran | |
| Movie | 1917 | The Law North of 65 | Jeanne | |
| Movie | 1916 | Twisted Trails | Sunshine West | |
| Movie | 1911 | Kit Carson's Wooing | Lat-to-nick | |
| Movie | 1914 | When the West Was Young | Nellie Halton | |
| Movie | 1914 | Chip of the Flying U | Dr. Cecil Grantham | |
| Movie | 1914 | The White Mouse | Jean Silver | |
| Movie | 1914 | Etienne of the Glad Heart | Marie Le Groux | |
| Movie | 1913 | Greater Wealth | Mrs. Ed Young | |
| Movie | 1914 | The Wilderness Mail | Joan, a Young French-Canadian | |
| Movie | 1914 | In Defiance of the Law | Isobel Deane | |
| Movie | 1914 | The Smuggler's Sister | Bessie | |
| Movie | 1924 | Cheap Kisses | Maybelle Wescott | |
| Movie | 1915 | Lassoing a Lion | Mary Valjon | |
| Movie | 1915 | His Fighting Blood | Hope McTrigger | |
| Movie | 1915 | The Red Blood of Courage | Lydia Duane | |
| Movie | 1915 | The Primitive Way | Mildred Manning | |
| Movie | 1915 | The Fork in the Road | Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte | |
| Movie | 1915 | The Great Experiment | Ritta | |
| Movie | 1915 | The Two Natures Within Him | Mary Bishop | |
| Movie | 1914 | Kid Pink and the Maharajah | ||
| Movie | 1914 | Shotgun Jones | Sally Lattier - the Daughter | |
| Movie | 1925 | The Girl of Gold | Ada Tremaine | |
| Movie | 1913 | In the Long Ago | Starlight | |
| Movie | 1911 | Blackbeard | Conchita | |
| Movie | 1912 | The Mate of the Alden Bessie | The Captain's Daughter | |
| Movie | 1914 | The Spoilers | Helen Chester | |
| Movie | 1913 | Alone in the Jungle | Helen Brown | |
| Movie | 1914 | In the Days of the Thundering Herd | Sally Madison | |
| Movie | 1916 | The Crisis | Virginia Carvel | |
| Movie | 1917 | Beware of Strangers | Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter | |
| Movie | 1917 | The Heart of Texas Ryan | Texas Ryan | |
| Movie | 1918 | The Way of a Man with a Maid | Gladys | |
| Movie | 1919 | The Usurper | Margaret Quentin |
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| Movie | 1914 | The Smuggler's Sister | Writer | Writing |
