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.
Movies
The Flapper
(archive footage)
I Am Not a Racist
Elsie
Night Hunter
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
The Whales of August
Sarah Webber
Sweet Liberty
Cecelia Burgess
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mrs Loftus
Hobson's Choice
Miss Molly Winkle
Hambone and Hillie
Hillie Radcliffe
Thin Ice
Grandmother
A Wedding
Nettie Sloan
Twin Detectives
Billy Jo Haskins
Arsenic and Old Lace
Martha Brewster
The Comedians
Mrs. Smith
Warning Shot
Alice Willows
Lionpower from MGM
Follow Me, Boys!
Hetty Seibert
Mrs. Winchester's House
Narrator
The Great Chase
The Spiral Staircase
Mrs. Warren
The Unforgiven
Mattilda Zachary
Orders to Kill
Mrs. Summers
Film Fun
(archive footage)
The Night of the Hunter
Rachel Cooper
The Cobweb
Victoria Inch
The Trip to Bountiful
Carrie Watts
Portrait of Jennie
Mother Mary of Mercy
Duel in the Sun
Laura Belle McCanles
Miss Susie Slagle's
Miss Susie Slagle
Top Man
Beth Warren
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Mrs. Bergesen
His Double Life
Alice Chalice
One Romantic Night
Princess Alexandra
The Wind
Letty
The Enemy
Pauli Arndt
Annie Laurie
Annie Laurie
The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynne
La Bohème
Mimi
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Romola
Romola
The White Sister
Angela Chiaromonte
From Farm to Fame
Lillian Gish
Orphans of the Storm
Henriette Girard
Way Down East
Anna Moore
The Greatest Question
Nellie Jarvis
True Heart Susie
Susie May Trueheart
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Lucy Burrows
A Romance of Happy Valley
Jennie Timberlake
The Greatest Thing in Life
Jeannette Peret
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
The Great Love
Susie Broadplains
Hearts of the World
The Girl - Marie Stephenson
Souls Triumphant
Lillian Vale
The House Built Upon Sand
Evelyn Dare
The Children Pay
Millicent
Diane of the Follies
Diane
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
An Innocent Magdalene
Dorothy Raleigh
Sold for Marriage
Marfa
Daphne and the Pirate
Daphne La Tour
Pathways of Life
The Lily and the Rose
Mary Randolph
Captain Macklin
Beatrice
Enoch Arden
Annie Lee
The Lost House
Dosia Dale
The Birth of a Nation
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
His Lesson
Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
The Sisters
May
The Folly of Anne
Anne
The Tear That Burned
Anita - the Truant
Man's Enemy
Grace Lisle
The Angel of Contention
Nettie - the Angel
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
Kitty Belle
Lord Chumley
Eleanor Butterworth
Home, Sweet Home
Payne's Sweetheart
The Quicksands
The Hunchback
The Orphan - as an Adult
The Battle of the Sexes
Jane Andrews, the daughter
Judith of Bethulia
The Young Mother
The Green-Eyed Devil
Mary Miller
A Duel for Love
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
The Rugmaker's Daughter
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Melissa Harlow
The Blue or the Gray
Madonna of the Storm
The Mother
So Runs the Way
Fred's Wife
A Modest Hero
The Wife
A Woman in the Ultimate
Verda
An Indian's Loyalty
The Ranchero's Daughter
During the Round-Up
The Ranchero's Daughter
The Mothering Heart
The Wife
A Timely Interception
The Farmer's Daughter
Just Gold
The First Brother's Sweetheart
The House of Darkness
The Nurse
The Lady and the Mouse
The First Sister
The Left-Handed Man
The Old Soldier's Daughter
A Misunderstood Boy
The Daughter
The Little Tease
Girl in bandana
The Stolen Bride
The Unwelcome Guest
At Auction (uncredited)
Oil and Water
In First Audience (uncredited)
A Cry for Help
The Maid
The Burglar’s Dilemma
Birthday Wellwisher
The New York Hat
Customer in Shop / Outside Church
Brutality
At Theatre
The Informer
Walk on role
My Baby
Gold and Glitter
The Young Woman
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Little Lady
The Painted Lady
Belle at Ice Cream Festival
The One She Loved
In the Aisles of the Wild
The Younger Daughter
So Near, Yet So Far
A Friend
Two Daughters of Eve
In Theatre Crowd
An Unseen Enemy
Eldest Sister
TV Series
The Love Boat
Mrs. Williams
1 Episode
Mr. Novak
Maude Phipps
1 Episode
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Bessie Carnby
1 Episode
The Defenders
Louisa Clarendon
1 Episode
The Alcoa Hour
Esther Crampton
1 Episode
Playwrights '56
1 Episode
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Grandma Moses
1 Episode
Robert Montgomery Presents
2 Episodes
The Philco Television Playhouse
Abby
1 Episode