Lillian Gish

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: Acting

Born: Springfield, Ohio, USA, 1893-10-14

Died: 1993-02-27

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1912	An Unseen Enemy	Eldest Sister	56
2	1912	Two Daughters of Eve	In Theatre Crowd	0
3	1912	So Near, Yet So Far	A Friend	59
4	1912	In the Aisles of the Wild	The Younger Daughter	0
5	1912	The One She Loved		0
6	1912	The Painted Lady	Belle at Ice Cream Festival	55
7	1912	The Musketeers of Pig Alley	The Little Lady	62
8	1912	Gold and Glitter	The Young Woman	0
9	1912	My Baby		48
10	1912	The Informer	Walk on role	0
11	1912	Brutality	At Theatre	0
12	1912	The New York Hat	Customer in Shop / Outside Church	57
13	1912	The Burglar’s Dilemma	Birthday Wellwisher	53
14	1912	A Cry for Help	The Maid	0
15	1913	Oil and Water	In First Audience (uncredited)	0
16	1913	The Unwelcome Guest	At Auction (uncredited)	50
17	1913	The Stolen Bride		0
18	1913	The Little Tease	Girl in bandana	50
19	1913	A Misunderstood Boy	The Daughter	0
20	1913	The Left-Handed Man	The Old Soldier's Daughter	0
21	1913	The Lady and the Mouse	The First Sister	0
22	1913	The House of Darkness	The Nurse	50
23	1913	Just Gold	The First Brother's Sweetheart	0
24	1913	A Timely Interception	The Farmer's Daughter	48
25	1913	The Mothering Heart	The Wife	58
26	1913	During the Round-Up	The Ranchero's Daughter	0
27	1913	An Indian's Loyalty	The Ranchero's Daughter	0
28	1913	A Woman in the Ultimate	Verda	0
29	1913	A Modest Hero	The Wife	0
30	1913	So Runs the Way	Fred's Wife	0
31	1913	Madonna of the Storm	The Mother	0
32	1913	The Blue or the Gray		0
33	1913	The Battle at Elderbush Gulch	Melissa Harlow	59
34	1913	The Conscience of Hassan Bey	The Rugmaker's Daughter	0
35	1914	A Duel for Love		0
36	1914	The Green-Eyed Devil	Mary Miller	0
37	1914	Judith of Bethulia	The Young Mother	62
38	1914	The Hunchback	The Orphan - as an Adult	0
39	1914	The Battle of the Sexes	Jane Andrews, the daughter	0
40	1914	The Quicksands		0
41	1914	Home, Sweet Home	Payne's Sweetheart	53
42	1914	Lord Chumley	Eleanor Butterworth	70
43	1914	The Rebellion of Kitty Belle	Kitty Belle	0
44	1914	The Angel of Contention	Nettie - the Angel	0
45	1914	Man's Enemy	Grace Lisle	0
46	1914	The Tear That Burned	Anita - the Truant	0
47	1914	The Folly of Anne	Anne	0
48	1914	The Sisters	May	0
49	1915	His Lesson	Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)	0
50	1915	The Birth of a Nation	Stoneman's Daughter Elsie	60
51	1915	The Lost House	Dosia Dale	0
52	1915	Enoch Arden	Annie Lee	63
53	1915	Captain Macklin	Beatrice	0
54	1915	The Lily and the Rose	Mary Randolph	0
55	1916	Pathways of Life		0
56	1916	Daphne and the Pirate	Daphne La Tour	10
57	1916	Sold for Marriage	Marfa	59
58	1916	An Innocent Magdalene	Dorothy Raleigh	0
59	1916	Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages	The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle	71
60	1916	Diane of the Follies	Diane	0
61	1916	The Children Pay	Millicent	0
62	1916	The House Built Upon Sand	Evelyn Dare	0
63	1917	Souls Triumphant	Lillian Vale	0
64	1918	Hearts of the World	The Girl - Marie Stephenson	60
65	1918	The Great Love	Susie Broadplains	0
66	1918	Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal		0
67	1918	The Greatest Thing in Life	Jeannette Peret	0
68	1919	A Romance of Happy Valley	Jennie Timberlake	69
69	1919	Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl	Lucy Burrows	69
70	1919	True Heart Susie	Susie May Trueheart	69
71	1919	The Greatest Question	Nellie Jarvis	59
72	1920	Way Down East	Anna Moore	70
73	1921	Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)	Herself	0
74	1921	Orphans of the Storm	Henriette Girard	68
75	1922	From Farm to Fame	Lillian Gish	0
76	1923	The White Sister	Angela Chiaromonte	70
77	1924	Romola	Romola	63
78	1925	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)	73
79	1926	La Bohème	Mimi	66
80	1927	The Scarlet Letter	Hester Prynne	73
81	1927	Annie Laurie	Annie Laurie	67
82	1927	The Enemy	Pauli Arndt	55
83	1928	The Wind	Letty	73
84	1930	One Romantic Night	Princess Alexandra	53
85	1933	His Double Life	Alice Chalice	61
86	1942	Commandos Strike at Dawn	Mrs. Bergesen	54
87	1943	Top Man	Beth Warren	0
88	1946	Miss Susie Slagle's	Miss Susie Slagle	100
89	1946	Duel in the Sun	Laura Belle McCanles	63
90	1948	Portrait of Jennie	Mother Mary of Mercy	71
91	1953	The Trip to Bountiful	Carrie Watts	0
92	1955	The Cobweb	Victoria Inch	58
93	1955	The Night of the Hunter	Rachel Cooper	79
94	1955	Film Fun	(archive footage)	40
95	1958	Orders to Kill	Mrs. Summers	71
96	1960	The Unforgiven	Mattilda Zachary	63
97	1961	The Legend of Rudolph Valentino	Self (archive footage)	0
98	1961	The Spiral Staircase	Mrs. Warren	60
99	1962	The Great Chase		62
100	1963	Mrs. Winchester's House	Narrator	0
101	1966	Follow Me, Boys!	Hetty Seibert	66
102	1967	Warning Shot	Alice Willows	63
103	1967	The Comedians in Africa	Self (uncredited)	53
104	1967	The Comedians	Mrs. Smith	61
105	1969	Arsenic and Old Lace	Martha Brewster	70
106	1970	Langlois	Self	45
107	1974	Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	73
108	1975	Black Shadows on a Silver Screen	Self (archive footage)	0
109	1976	Twin Detectives	Billy Jo Haskins	60
110	1978	A Wedding	Nettie Sloan	63
111	1981	Thin Ice	Grandmother	0
112	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
113	1983	Hambone and Hillie	Hillie Radcliffe	40
114	1983	Hobson's Choice	Miss Molly Winkle	0
115	1984	Lillian Gish	Self	65
116	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
117	1986	Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown	Self (archive footage)	80
118	1986	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mrs Loftus	67
119	1986	Sweet Liberty	Cecelia Burgess	54
120	1987	Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood	Self	57
121	1987	The Whales of August	Sarah Webber	70
122	1988	Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me	Herself, Archive footage	0
123	1995	Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'	Self	70
124	1998	Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists	Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)	0
125	2002	D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913		0
126	2007	Cannes: All Access	Self (archive footage)	37
127	2008	Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies	Self (archive footage)	57
128	2009	Early Directors on Directing	Self	0
129	2010	Sigrid Holmquist	Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)	70
130	2011	Night Hunter		0
131	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
132	2016	The Women Who Run Hollywood	Self (archive footage)	71
133	2019	I Am Not a Racist	Elsie	0
134	2021	The Flapper	(archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Abby	63
3	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Narrator	63
4	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Carrie Watts	63
5	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents		56
6	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Grandma Moses	73
7	1955	Playwrights '56		60
8	1955	The Alcoa Hour	Esther Crampton	40
9	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
10	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Award Accepter	51
11	1961	The Defenders	Louisa Clarendon	62
12	1961	The Defenders	Mrs. Cooper	62
13	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Bessie Carnby	78
14	1963	Mr. Novak	Maude Phipps	65
15	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
16	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
17	1977	The Love Boat	Mrs. Williams	63
18	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
19	1980	Hollywood	Self	83

Lillian Gish

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