Lillian Gish
Born in Springfield, Ohio, USA — Oct 14 1893• Died Feb 27 1993
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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 con…
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Lillian Gish's Credits
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Bessie Carnby
The Love Boat
Mrs. Williams
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Philco Television Playhouse
Abby
The Defenders
Louisa Clarendon
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Film '72
Self
Mr. Novak
Maude Phipps
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
Hollywood
Self
The Alcoa Hour
Esther Crampton
The Night of the Hunter
Rachel Cooper
Playwrights '56
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Grandma Moses
Night of 100 Stars
Self
The Hollywood Greats
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Duel in the Sun
Laura Belle McCanles
The Cobweb
Victoria Inch
The Unforgiven
Mattilda Zachary
A Wedding
Nettie Sloan
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Lucy Burrows
The Birth of a Nation
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
So Near, Yet So Far
A Friend
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mrs Loftus
Sweet Liberty
Cecelia Burgess
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Portrait of Jennie
Mother Mary of Mercy
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Wind
Letty
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Mrs. Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
Orders to Kill
Mrs. Summers
Top Man
Beth Warren
Romola
Romola
Hambone and Hillie
Hillie Radcliffe
Warning Shot
Alice Willows
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
The Trip to Bountiful
Carrie Watts
Follow Me, Boys!
Hetty Seibert
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Mrs. Bergesen
Thin Ice
Grandmother
The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynne
Orphans of the Storm
Henriette Girard
The Comedians
Mrs. Smith
The Whales of August
Sarah Webber
The White Sister
Angela Chiaromonte
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lord Chumley
Eleanor Butterworth
Oil and Water
In First Audience (uncredited)
The New York Hat
Customer in Shop / Outside Church
My Baby
Langlois
Self
The Enemy
Pauli Arndt
Lillian Gish
Self
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Little Lady
An Unseen Enemy
Eldest Sister
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Melissa Harlow
Hobson's Choice
Miss Molly Winkle
The Lily and the Rose
Mary Randolph
Enoch Arden
Annie Lee
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
The Unwelcome Guest
At Auction (uncredited)
Film Fun
(archive footage)
Brutality
At Theatre
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
Self
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
The Flapper
(archive footage)
I Am Not a Racist
Elsie (archive footage) (uncredited)
Judith of Bethulia
The Young Mother
The Informer
Walk on role
The Green-Eyed Devil
Mary Miller
A Modest Hero
The Wife
The Lady and the Mouse
The First Sister
A Timely Interception
The Farmer's Daughter
Home, Sweet Home
Payne's Sweetheart
A Misunderstood Boy
The Daughter
The Sisters
May
Just Gold
The First Brother's Sweetheart
In the Aisles of the Wild
The Younger Daughter
The Little Tease
Girl in bandana
The Comedians in Africa
Self (uncredited)
Twin Detectives
Billy Jo Haskins
An Innocent Magdalene
Dorothy Raleigh
The Spiral Staircase
Mrs. Warren
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
Arsenic and Old Lace
Martha Brewster
Daphne and the Pirate
Daphne La Tour
The Painted Lady
Belle at Ice Cream Festival
The Quicksands
Remodeling Her Husband
Directing
A Cry for Help
The Maid
The Mothering Heart
The Wife
The One She Loved
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
Herself, Archive footage
His Lesson
Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
La Bohème
Mimi
The Great Love
Susie Broadplains
Annie Laurie
Annie Laurie
Miss Susie Slagle's
Miss Susie Slagle
Early Directors on Directing
Self
So Runs the Way
Fred's Wife
Way Down East
Anna Moore
Pathways of Life
The Burglar’s Dilemma
Birthday Wellwisher
Hearts of the World
The Girl - Marie Stephenson
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
A Romance of Happy Valley
Jennie Timberlake
Gold and Glitter
The Young Woman
His Double Life
Alice Chalice
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
The Folly of Anne
Anne
Souls Triumphant
Lillian Vale
Man's Enemy
Grace Lisle
Two Daughters of Eve
In Theatre Crowd
Captain Macklin
Beatrice
Diane of the Follies
Diane
The Children Pay
Millicent
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Self (archive footage)
The Hunchback
The Orphan - as an Adult
The Tear That Burned
Anita - the Truant
One Romantic Night
Princess Alexandra
The Greatest Thing in Life
Jeannette Peret
The Battle of the Sexes
Jane Andrews, the daughter
An Indian's Loyalty
The Ranchero's Daughter
The Lost House
Dosia Dale
The Angel of Contention
Nettie - the Angel
The House of Darkness
The Nurse
The Left-Handed Man
The Old Soldier's Daughter
The Greatest Question
Nellie Jarvis
A Duel for Love
The Stolen Bride
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
Crew
During the Round-Up
The Ranchero's Daughter
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
Kitty Belle
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
The Rugmaker's Daughter
Night Hunter
The Great Chase
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
Herself
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
Sold for Marriage
Marfa
A Woman in the Ultimate
Verda
True Heart Susie
Susie May Trueheart
Madonna of the Storm
The Mother
The House Built Upon Sand
Evelyn Dare
The Blue or the Gray
From Farm to Fame
Lillian Gish
Mrs. Winchester's House
Narrator
Tony Awards
Self - Award Accepter