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
The Unforgiven (1960)
as Mattilda Zachary
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
Duel in the Sun (1946)
as Laura Belle McCanles
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
as Lucy Burrows
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1986)
as Mrs Loftus
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
as Mother Mary of Mercy
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Whales of August (1987)
as Sarah Webber
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
The Cobweb (1955)
as Victoria Inch
Sweet Liberty (1986)
as Cecelia Burgess
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
as Self
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
A Wedding (1978)
as Nettie Sloan
Warning Shot (1967)
as Alice Willows
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987)
as Self
Sparrow (1978)
as Widow
The Comedians (1967)
as Mrs. Smith
Film Fun (1955)
as (archive footage)
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
as Melissa Harlow
Just Gold (1913)
as The First Brother's Sweetheart
Orders to Kill (1958)
as Mrs. Summers
The Sisters (1914)
as May
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
as Mrs. Bergesen
The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
Lillian Gish (1984)
as Self
The Wind (1928)
as Letty
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1974)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
as Hetty Seibert
Langlois (1970)
as Self
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
as Henriette Girard
Way Down East (1920)
as Anna Moore
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
as Payne's Sweetheart
Romola (1924)
as Romola
Lionpower from MGM (1967)
as Self - Mrs. Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)
as Miss Susie Slagle
Judith of Bethulia (1914)
as The Young Mother
The Scarlet Letter (1927)
as Hester Prynne
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998)
as Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
The Spiral Staircase (1961)
as Mrs. Warren
Arsenic and Old Lace (1969)
as Martha Brewster
The Tear That Burned (1914)
as Anita - the Truant
Hambone and Hillie (1983)
as Hillie Radcliffe
The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation' (1993)
as Self (Archive footage)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
as The Little Lady
Twin Detectives (1976)
as Billy Jo Haskins
Night Hunter (2011)
Actor
Thin Ice (1981)
as Grandmother
Hearts of the World (1918)
as The Girl - Marie Stephenson
The One She Loved (1912)
Actor
The Great Chase (1962)
Actor
A Misunderstood Boy (1913)
as The Daughter
Brutality (1912)
as At Theatre
One Romantic Night (1930)
as Princess Alexandra
The Informer (1912)
as Walk on role
The Movie Album (1932)
as (archive footage)
Top Man (1943)
as Beth Warren
The Folly of Anne (1914)
as Anne
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20) (1921)
as Herself
The Children Pay (1916)
as Millicent
Annie Laurie (1927)
as Annie Laurie
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter' (1995)
as Self
Oil and Water (1913)
as In First Audience (uncredited)
An Unseen Enemy (1912)
as Eldest Sister
So Runs the Way (1913)
as Fred's Wife
Sigrid Holmquist (2010)
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Discovering: Robert Mitchum (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Hobson's Choice (1983)
as Miss Molly Winkle
The Trip to Bountiful (1953)
as Carrie Watts
The White Sister (1923)
as Angela Chiaromonte
Diane of the Follies (1916)
as Diane
The Stolen Bride (1913)
Actor
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
as Self (archive footage)
A Modest Hero (1913)
as The Wife
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown (1986)
as Self (archive footage)
Captain Macklin (1915)
as Beatrice
The Enemy (1927)
as Pauli Arndt
Enoch Arden (1915)
as Annie Lee
The Mothering Heart (1913)
as The Wife
True Heart Susie (1919)
as Susie May Trueheart
In the Aisles of the Wild (1912)
as The Younger Daughter
Early Directors on Directing (2009)
as Self
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
The Flapper (2021)
as (archive footage)
His Double Life (1933)
as Alice Chalice
The Comedians in Africa (1967)
as Self (uncredited)
My Baby (1912)
Actor
A Timely Interception (1913)
as The Farmer's Daughter
The New York Hat (1912)
as Customer in Shop / Outside Church
A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
as Jennie Timberlake
La Bohème (1926)
as Mimi
The Left-Handed Man (1913)
as The Old Soldier's Daughter
Two Daughters of Eve (1912)
as In Theatre Crowd
So Near, Yet So Far (1912)
as A Friend
The Great Love (1918)
as Susie Broadplains
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
A Woman in the Ultimate (1913)
as Verda
Madonna of the Storm (1913)
as The Mother
The Painted Lady (1912)
as Belle at Ice Cream Festival
Souls Triumphant (1917)
as Lillian Vale
Daphne and the Pirate (1916)
as Daphne La Tour
A Cry for Help (1912)
as The Maid
His Lesson (1915)
as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
The Hunchback (1914)
as The Orphan - as an Adult
An Innocent Magdalene (1916)
as Dorothy Raleigh
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me (1988)
as Herself, Archive footage
The Lily and the Rose (1915)
as Mary Randolph
A Duel for Love (1914)
Actor
Sold for Marriage (1916)
as Marfa
Gold and Glitter (1912)
as The Young Woman
The Battle of the Sexes (1914)
as Jane Andrews, the daughter
Pathways of Life (1916)
Actor
Mrs. Winchester's House (1963)
as Narrator
The Lost House (1915)
as Dosia Dale
The Angel of Contention (1914)
as Nettie - the Angel
The Greatest Thing in Life (1918)
as Jeannette Peret
The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)
as Birthday Wellwisher
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918)
Actor
An Indian's Loyalty (1913)
as The Ranchero's Daughter
The Little Tease (1913)
as Girl in bandana
I Am Not a Racist (2019)
as Elsie (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle (1914)
as Kitty Belle
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 (2002)
Actor
The Green-Eyed Devil (1914)
as Mary Miller
The Lady and the Mouse (1913)
as The First Sister
The Greatest Question (1919)
as Nellie Jarvis
Lord Chumley (1914)
as Eleanor Butterworth
The House of Darkness (1913)
as The Nurse
The Quicksands (1914)
Actor
Man's Enemy (1914)
as Grace Lisle
During the Round-Up (1913)
as The Ranchero's Daughter
The Conscience of Hassan Bey (1913)
as The Rugmaker's Daughter
The Blue or the Gray (1913)
Actor
The Unwelcome Guest (1913)
as At Auction (uncredited)
From Farm to Fame (1922)
as Lillian Gish
The House Built Upon Sand (1916)
as Evelyn Dare