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