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