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.
38 movies
The Girl of Gold
1925·9.0
Cheap Kisses
1924·10.0
The Usurper
1919·9.0
A Man of Honor
1919·7.0
Children of Banishment
1919·9.0
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918·7.0
The Still Alarm
1918·0.0
The City of Purple Dreams
1918·0.0
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917·0.0
The Law North of 65
1917·8.0
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917·3.8
Beware of Strangers
1917·0.0
The Crisis
1916·5.3
Twisted Trails
1916·5.0
The Two Natures Within Him
1915·7.0
The Great Experiment
1915·9.0
The Fork in the Road
1915·9.0
The Red Blood of Courage
1915·10.0
The Primitive Way
1915·0.0
His Fighting Blood
1915·8.0
Lassoing a Lion
1915·8.0
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914·0.0
When the West Was Young
1914·7.0
Chip of the Flying U
1914·0.0
The White Mouse
1914·0.0
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914·0.0
The Wilderness Mail
1914·0.0
In Defiance of the Law
1914·0.0
Shotgun Jones
1914·0.0
The Spoilers
1914·6.2
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914·0.0
The Smuggler's Sister
1914·0.0
Alone in the Jungle
1913·6.0
In the Long Ago
1913·0.0
Greater Wealth
1913·0.0
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912·4.0
Blackbeard
1911·8.0
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911·0.0