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Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish

Actor · Born 1893-10-14 · Springfield, Ohio, USA

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Biography

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 & TV Shows

  1. The Night of the Hunter (1955) — Rachel Cooper
  2. The Birth of a Nation (1915) — Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
  3. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) — The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
  4. Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919) — Lucy Burrows
  5. The Unforgiven (1960) — Mattilda Zachary
  6. Duel in the Sun (1946) — Laura Belle McCanles
  7. The Love Boat (1977) — Mrs. Williams
  8. The Wind (1928) — Letty
  9. Portrait of Jennie (1948) — Mother Mary of Mercy
  10. Way Down East (1920) — Anna Moore
  11. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) — Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
  12. Orphans of the Storm (1921) — Henriette Girard
  13. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) — The Little Lady
  14. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) — Bessie Carnby
  15. The Whales of August (1987) — Sarah Webber
  16. A Wedding (1978) — Nettie Sloan
  17. True Heart Susie (1919) — Susie May Trueheart
  18. The Comedians (1967) — Mrs. Smith
  19. Sweet Liberty (1986) — Cecelia Burgess
  20. The Cobweb (1955) — Victoria Inch
  21. The Mothering Heart (1913) — The Wife
  22. The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913) — Melissa Harlow
  23. The Scarlet Letter (1927) — Hester Prynne
  24. Follow Me, Boys! (1966) — Hetty Seibert
  25. Judith of Bethulia (1914) — The Young Mother
  26. The New York Hat (1912) — Customer in Shop / Outside Church
  27. An Unseen Enemy (1912) — Eldest Sister
  28. Warning Shot (1967) — Alice Willows
  29. Orders to Kill (1958) — Mrs. Summers
  30. Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) — Mrs. Bergesen
  31. Hearts of the World (1918) — The Girl - Marie Stephenson
  32. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
  33. The Painted Lady (1912) — Belle at Ice Cream Festival
  34. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest
  35. A Romance of Happy Valley (1919) — Jennie Timberlake
  36. Hollywood (1980) — Self
  37. La Bohème (1926) — Mimi
  38. Home, Sweet Home (1914) — Payne's Sweetheart
  39. The Greatest Question (1919) — Nellie Jarvis
  40. The White Sister (1923) — Angela Chiaromonte

Directed

  1. Remodeling Her Husband (1920) — Director