Lillian Gish
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Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W. Griffith, including her leading role in Griffith's seminal Birth of a Nation (1915). Her sound-era film appearances were sporadic, but included memorable roles in the controversial western Duel in the Sun (1946) and the offbeat thriller Night of the Hunter (1955). She did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s, and closed her career playing, for the first time, opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August. The American Film Institute (AFI) named Gish 17th among the greatest female stars of all time. She was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1971, and in 1984 she received an AFI Life Achievement Award.
Known for
Credits
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
as Rachel Cooper
Lionpower from MGM (1967)
as Self - Mrs. Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Unforgiven (1960)
as Mattilda Zachary
Romola (1924)
as Romola
Captain Macklin (1915)
as Beatrice
Film Fun (1955)
as (archive footage)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
The Sisters (1914)
as May
Duel in the Sun (1946)
as Laura Belle McCanles
Langlois (1970)
as Self
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
as Melissa Harlow
Lillian Gish (1984)
as Self
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
as Mother Mary of Mercy
Sparrow (1978)
as Widow
Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
as Hetty Seibert
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
as Lucy Burrows
The Cobweb (1955)
as Victoria Inch
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1986)
as Mrs Loftus
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
as Self
The Stolen Bride (1913)
Actor
The Whales of August (1987)
as Sarah Webber
Sweet Liberty (1986)
as Cecelia Burgess
Mrs. Winchester's House (1963)
as Narrator
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
as Mrs. Bergesen
The Comedians (1967)
as Mrs. Smith
The Flapper (2021)
as (archive footage)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1969)
as Martha Brewster
The Tear That Burned (1914)
as Anita - the Truant
The Wind (1928)
as Letty
Warning Shot (1967)
as Alice Willows
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
Night Hunter (2011)
Actor
Judith of Bethulia (1914)
as The Young Mother
True Heart Susie (1919)
as Susie May Trueheart
Orders to Kill (1958)
as Mrs. Summers
The Movie Album (1932)
as (archive footage)
The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation' (1993)
as Self (Archive footage)
Way Down East (1920)
as Anna Moore
Just Gold (1913)
as The First Brother's Sweetheart
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987)
as Self
So Runs the Way (1913)
as Fred's Wife
Brutality (1912)
as At Theatre
The Children Pay (1916)
as Millicent
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
as Self (archive footage)
Oil and Water (1913)
as In First Audience (uncredited)
The Folly of Anne (1914)
as Anne
A Modest Hero (1913)
as The Wife
A Wedding (1978)
as Nettie Sloan
In the Aisles of the Wild (1912)
as The Younger Daughter
Madonna of the Storm (1913)
as The Mother
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
as Henriette Girard
The Scarlet Letter (1927)
as Hester Prynne
The Comedians in Africa (1967)
as Self (uncredited)
The White Sister (1923)
as Angela Chiaromonte
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20) (1921)
as Herself
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
Hambone and Hillie (1983)
as Hillie Radcliffe
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
as Payne's Sweetheart
Gold and Glitter (1912)
as The Young Woman
Hearts of the World (1918)
as The Girl - Marie Stephenson
The Trip to Bountiful (1953)
as Carrie Watts
A Duel for Love (1914)
Actor
The One She Loved (1912)
Actor
Hobson's Choice (1983)
as Miss Molly Winkle
Two Daughters of Eve (1912)
as In Theatre Crowd
A Misunderstood Boy (1913)
as The Daughter
Twin Detectives (1976)
as Billy Jo Haskins
The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)
as Birthday Wellwisher
Top Man (1943)
as Beth Warren
An Unseen Enemy (1912)
as Eldest Sister
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter' (1995)
as Self
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1974)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Battle of the Sexes (1914)
as Jane Andrews, the daughter
The New York Hat (1912)
as Customer in Shop / Outside Church
The Unwelcome Guest (1913)
as At Auction (uncredited)
An Innocent Magdalene (1916)
as Dorothy Raleigh
Daphne and the Pirate (1916)
as Daphne La Tour
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
as The Little Lady
Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)
as Miss Susie Slagle
Enoch Arden (1915)
as Annie Lee
An Indian's Loyalty (1913)
as The Ranchero's Daughter
Annie Laurie (1927)
as Annie Laurie
So Near, Yet So Far (1912)
as A Friend
The Spiral Staircase (1961)
as Mrs. Warren
The Conscience of Hassan Bey (1913)
as The Rugmaker's Daughter
The Lily and the Rose (1915)
as Mary Randolph
Diane of the Follies (1916)
as Diane
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
The House of Darkness (1913)
as The Nurse
Sold for Marriage (1916)
as Marfa
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
The Greatest Question (1919)
as Nellie Jarvis
I Am Not a Racist (2019)
as Elsie (archive footage) (uncredited)
La Bohème (1926)
as Mimi
One Romantic Night (1930)
as Princess Alexandra
The Enemy (1927)
as Pauli Arndt
Sigrid Holmquist (2010)
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
The Great Love (1918)
as Susie Broadplains
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle (1914)
as Kitty Belle
A Cry for Help (1912)
as The Maid
The Great Chase (1962)
Actor
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown (1986)
as Self (archive footage)
Lord Chumley (1914)
as Eleanor Butterworth
My Baby (1912)
Actor
The Hunchback (1914)
as The Orphan - as an Adult
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998)
as Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
The Green-Eyed Devil (1914)
as Mary Miller
A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
as Jennie Timberlake
The House Built Upon Sand (1916)
as Evelyn Dare
The Mothering Heart (1913)
as The Wife
The Painted Lady (1912)
as Belle at Ice Cream Festival
A Timely Interception (1913)
as The Farmer's Daughter
The Informer (1912)
as Walk on role
Souls Triumphant (1917)
as Lillian Vale
The Angel of Contention (1914)
as Nettie - the Angel
The Lady and the Mouse (1913)
as The First Sister
From Farm to Fame (1922)
as Lillian Gish
Thin Ice (1981)
as Grandmother
The Greatest Thing in Life (1918)
as Jeannette Peret
The Little Tease (1913)
as Girl in bandana
Early Directors on Directing (2009)
as Self
A Woman in the Ultimate (1913)
as Verda
His Lesson (1915)
as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me (1988)
as Herself, Archive footage
The Blue or the Gray (1913)
Actor
During the Round-Up (1913)
as The Ranchero's Daughter
His Double Life (1933)
as Alice Chalice
The Quicksands (1914)
Actor
Pathways of Life (1916)
Actor
The Left-Handed Man (1913)
as The Old Soldier's Daughter
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 (2002)
Actor
The Lost House (1915)
as Dosia Dale
Man's Enemy (1914)
as Grace Lisle
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918)
Actor