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Lillian Gish
Born · October 14, 1893
Died · February 27, 1993 (99 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Springfield, Ohio, USA
Bio
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.
The Flapper
(archive footage)
0.0
2021
I Am Not a Racist
Elsie
0.0
2019
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
7.0
2016
Early Directors on Directing
Self
0.0
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
7.0
2014
Night Hunter
0.0
2011
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
7.0
2010
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
5.7
2008
Cannes: All Access
Self (archive footage)
3.7
2007
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
0.0
2002
Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter'
Self (archive footage)
5.7
2002
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
0.0
1998
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
Self
7.0
1995
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
Herself, Archive footage
0.0
1988
The Whales of August
Sarah Webber
7.0
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
7.7
1987
Sweet Liberty
Cecelia Burgess
5.6
1986
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mrs Loftus
6.7
1986
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Self (archive footage)
8.0
1986
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
8.0
1985
Lillian Gish
Self
6.5
1984
Hobson's Choice
Miss Molly Winkle
0.0
1983
Hambone and Hillie
Hillie Radcliffe
4.0
1983
Night of 100 Stars
Self
6.5
1982
Thin Ice
Grandmother
0.0
1981
Hollywood
Self · (13 episodes)
8.3
1980
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self · (1 episode)
7.3
1978
A Wedding
Nettie Sloan
6.3
1978
The Love Boat
Mrs. Williams · (1 episode)
6.3
1977
Twin Detectives
Billy Jo Haskins
6.0
1976
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
0.0
1975
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
7.3
1974
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · (2 episodes)
6.3
1973
Langlois
Self
4.5
1970
Arsenic and Old Lace
Martha Brewster
7.0
1969
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
6.6
1968
The Comedians
Mrs. Smith
6.1
1967
The Comedians in Africa
Self (uncredited)
5.3
1967
Warning Shot
Alice Willows
6.5
1967
Follow Me, Boys!
Hetty Seibert
6.6
1966
Mrs. Winchester's House
Narrator
0.0
1963
Mr. Novak
Maude Phipps · (1 episode)
6.5
1963
The Great Chase
6.2
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Bessie Carnby · (1 episode)
7.8
1962
The Spiral Staircase
Mrs. Warren
6.0
1961
The Defenders
Louisa Clarendon · (1 episode)
6.2
1961
The Defenders
Mrs. Cooper · (1 episode)
6.2
1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
0.0
1961
The Unforgiven
Mattilda Zachary
6.2
1960
Orders to Kill
Mrs. Summers
6.9
1958
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
4.6
1956
Tony Awards
Self - Award Accepter · (1 episode)
4.6
1956
The Alcoa Hour
Esther Crampton · (1 episode)
4.0
1955
Playwrights '56
(1 episode)
6.0
1955
The Night of the Hunter
Rachel Cooper
7.9
1955
Film Fun
(archive footage)
4.0
1955
The Cobweb
Victoria Inch
5.8
1955
The Trip to Bountiful
Carrie Watts
0.0
1953
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Grandma Moses · (1 episode)
7.0
1951
Robert Montgomery Presents
(2 episodes)
5.2
1950
Portrait of Jennie
Mother Mary of Mercy
7.1
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
Abby · (1 episode)
6.0
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
Narrator · (1 episode)
6.0
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
Carrie Watts · (1 episode)
6.0
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
1948
Duel in the Sun
Laura Belle McCanles
6.3
1946
Miss Susie Slagle's
Miss Susie Slagle
10.0
1946
Top Man
Beth Warren
0.0
1943
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Mrs. Bergesen
5.3
1942
His Double Life
Alice Chalice
6.1
1933
One Romantic Night
Princess Alexandra
5.3
1930
The Wind
Letty
7.3
1928
The Enemy
Pauli Arndt
5.5
1927
Annie Laurie
Annie Laurie
6.6
1927
The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynne
7.3
1927
La Bohème
Mimi
6.6
1926
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
7.3
1925
Romola
Romola
6.0
1924
The White Sister
Angela Chiaromonte
7.0
1923
From Farm to Fame
Lillian Gish
0.0
1922
Orphans of the Storm
Henriette Girard
6.9
1921
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
Herself
0.0
1921
Way Down East
Anna Moore
7.0
1920
The Greatest Question
Nellie Jarvis
5.9
1919
True Heart Susie
Susie May Trueheart
6.9
1919
Broken Blossoms
Lucy Burrows
6.9
1919
A Romance of Happy Valley
Jennie Timberlake
7.0
1919
The Greatest Thing in Life
Jeannette Peret
0.0
1918
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
0.0
1918
The Great Love
Susie Broadplains
0.0
1918
Hearts of the World
The Girl - Marie Stephenson
6.0
1918
Souls Triumphant
Lillian Vale
0.0
1917
The House Built Upon Sand
Evelyn Dare
0.0
1916
The Children Pay
Millicent
0.0
1916
Diane of the Follies
Diane
0.0
1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
7.1
1916
An Innocent Magdalene
Dorothy Raleigh
0.0
1916
Sold for Marriage
Marfa
5.9
1916
Daphne and the Pirate
Daphne La Tour
1.0
1916
Pathways of Life
0.0
1916
The Lily and the Rose
Mary Randolph
0.0
1915
Captain Macklin
Beatrice
0.0
1915
Enoch Arden
Annie Lee
6.3
1915
The Lost House
Dosia Dale
0.0
1915
The Birth of a Nation
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
6.0
1915
His Lesson
Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
0.0
1915
The Sisters
May
0.0
1914
The Folly of Anne
Anne
0.0
1914
The Tear That Burned
Anita - the Truant
0.0
1914
Man's Enemy
Grace Lisle
0.0
1914
The Angel of Contention
Nettie - the Angel
0.0
1914
Lord Chumley
Eleanor Butterworth
7.0
1914
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
Kitty Belle
0.0
1914
Home, Sweet Home
Payne's Sweetheart
5.3
1914
The Quicksands
0.0
1914
The Hunchback
The Orphan - as an Adult
0.0
1914
The Battle of the Sexes
Jane Andrews, the daughter
0.0
1914
Judith of Bethulia
The Young Mother
6.3
1914
The Green-Eyed Devil
Mary Miller
0.0
1914
A Duel for Love
0.0
1914
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
The Rugmaker's Daughter
0.0
1913
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Melissa Harlow
5.9
1913
The Blue or the Gray
0.0
1913
Madonna of the Storm
The Mother
0.0
1913
So Runs the Way
Fred's Wife
0.0
1913
A Modest Hero
The Wife
0.0
1913
A Woman in the Ultimate
Verda
0.0
1913
An Indian's Loyalty
The Ranchero's Daughter
0.0
1913
During the Round-Up
The Ranchero's Daughter
0.0
1913
The Mothering Heart
The Wife
5.8
1913
A Timely Interception
The Farmer's Daughter
4.8
1913
Just Gold
The First Brother's Sweetheart
0.0
1913
The House of Darkness
The Nurse
5.0
1913
The Lady and the Mouse
The First Sister
0.0
1913
The Left-Handed Man
The Old Soldier's Daughter
0.0
1913
A Misunderstood Boy
The Daughter
0.0
1913
The Little Tease
Girl in bandana
5.0
1913
The Stolen Bride
0.0
1913
The Unwelcome Guest
At Auction (uncredited)
5.0
1913
Oil and Water
In First Audience (uncredited)
0.0
1913
A Cry for Help
The Maid
0.0
1912
The Burglar’s Dilemma
Birthday Wellwisher
5.3
1912
The New York Hat
Customer in Shop / Outside Church
5.7
1912
Brutality
At Theatre
0.0
1912
The Informer
Walk on role
0.0
1912
My Baby
4.8
1912
Gold and Glitter
The Young Woman
0.0
1912
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Little Lady
6.2
1912
The Painted Lady
Belle at Ice Cream Festival
5.5
1912
The One She Loved
0.0
1912
In the Aisles of the Wild
The Younger Daughter
0.0
1912
So Near, Yet So Far
A Friend
5.9
1912
Two Daughters of Eve
In Theatre Crowd
0.0
1912
An Unseen Enemy
Eldest Sister
5.6
1912