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