Lillian Gish
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1893-10-14
Day of Death
1993-02-27 (99 years old)
Place of Birth
Springfield, Ohio, USA
Lillian Gish
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.
Known For
Acting
(2021)
The Flapper
as (archive footage)
(2019)
I Am Not a Racist
as Elsie
(2016)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
Early Directors on Directing
as Self
(2011)
(2010)
Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
(2008)
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
as Self (archive footage)
(2007)
Cannes: All Access
as Self (archive footage)
(2002)
(1998)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
(1995)
(1988)
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
as Herself, Archive footage
(1987)
(1987)
The Whales of August
as Sarah Webber
(1986)
Sweet Liberty
as Cecelia Burgess
(1986)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Mrs Loftus
(1986)
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
as Self (archive footage)
(1985)
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
(1984)
Lillian Gish
as Self
(1983)
Hambone and Hillie
as Hillie Radcliffe
(1983)
Hobson's Choice
as Miss Molly Winkle
(1982)
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1981)
Thin Ice
as Grandmother
(1978)
A Wedding
as Nettie Sloan
(1976)
Twin Detectives
as Billy Jo Haskins
(1975)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
(1974)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1970)
Langlois
as Self
(1969)
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Martha Brewster
(1967)
Warning Shot
as Alice Willows
(1967)
The Comedians
as Mrs. Smith
(1967)
The Comedians in Africa
as Self (uncredited)
(1966)
Follow Me, Boys!
as Hetty Seibert
(1963)
Mrs. Winchester's House
as Narrator
(1962)
(1961)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
(1961)
The Spiral Staircase
as Mrs. Warren
(1960)
The Unforgiven
as Mattilda Zachary
(1958)
Orders to Kill
as Mrs. Summers
(1955)
The Night of the Hunter
as Rachel Cooper
(1955)
The Cobweb
as Victoria Inch
(1955)
Film Fun
as (archive footage)
(1953)
The Trip to Bountiful
as Carrie Watts
(1948)
Portrait of Jennie
as Mother Mary of Mercy
(1946)
Duel in the Sun
as Laura Belle McCanles
(1946)
Miss Susie Slagle's
as Miss Susie Slagle
(1943)
Top Man
as Beth Warren
(1942)
Commandos Strike at Dawn
as Mrs. Bergesen
(1933)
His Double Life
as Alice Chalice
(1930)
One Romantic Night
as Princess Alexandra
(1928)
The Wind
as Letty
(1927)
The Scarlet Letter
as Hester Prynne
(1927)
The Enemy
as Pauli Arndt
(1927)
Annie Laurie
as Annie Laurie
(1926)
La Bohème
as Mimi
(1925)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
(1924)
Romola
as Romola
(1923)
The White Sister
as Angela Chiaromonte
(1922)
From Farm to Fame
as Lillian Gish
(1921)
Orphans of the Storm
as Henriette Girard
(1921)
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
as Herself
(1920)
Way Down East
as Anna Moore
(1919)
Broken Blossoms
as Lucy Burrows
(1919)
True Heart Susie
as Susie May Trueheart
(1919)
The Greatest Question
as Nellie Jarvis
(1919)
A Romance of Happy Valley
as Jennie Timberlake
(1918)
Hearts of the World
as The Girl - Marie Stephenson
(1918)
The Great Love
as Susie Broadplains
(1918)
The Greatest Thing in Life
as Jeannette Peret
(1918)
(1917)
Souls Triumphant
as Lillian Vale
(1916)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
(1916)
Daphne and the Pirate
as Daphne La Tour
(1916)
An Innocent Magdalene
as Dorothy Raleigh
(1916)
Sold for Marriage
as Marfa
(1916)
Diane of the Follies
as Diane
(1916)
The Children Pay
as Millicent
(1916)
(1916)
The House Built Upon Sand
as Evelyn Dare
(1915)
The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
(1915)
Enoch Arden
as Annie Lee
(1915)
The Lost House
as Dosia Dale
(1915)
The Lily and the Rose
as Mary Randolph
(1915)
His Lesson
as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
(1915)
Captain Macklin
as Beatrice
(1914)
The Angel of Contention
as Nettie - the Angel
(1914)
Judith of Bethulia
as The Young Mother
(1914)
The Sisters
as May
(1914)
Lord Chumley
as Eleanor Butterworth
(1914)
The Battle of the Sexes
as Jane Andrews, the daughter
(1914)
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
as Kitty Belle
(1914)
Home, Sweet Home
as Payne's Sweetheart
(1914)
The Tear That Burned
as Anita - the Truant
(1914)
The Folly of Anne
as Anne
(1914)
The Hunchback
as The Orphan - as an Adult
(1914)
Man's Enemy
as Grace Lisle
(1914)
(1914)
The Green-Eyed Devil
as Mary Miller
(1914)
(1913)
Madonna of the Storm
as The Mother
(1913)
The Unwelcome Guest
as At Auction (uncredited)
(1913)
The House of Darkness
as The Nurse
(1913)
A Misunderstood Boy
as The Daughter
(1913)
The Little Tease
as Girl in bandana
(1913)
A Modest Hero
as The Wife
(1913)
A Woman in the Ultimate
as Verda
(1913)
The Lady and the Mouse
as The First Sister
(1913)
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
as Melissa Harlow
(1913)
(1913)
Just Gold
as The First Brother's Sweetheart
(1913)
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
as The Rugmaker's Daughter
(1913)
An Indian's Loyalty
as The Ranchero's Daughter
(1913)
The Mothering Heart
as The Wife
(1913)
A Timely Interception
as The Farmer's Daughter
(1913)
During the Round-Up
as The Ranchero's Daughter
(1913)
The Left-Handed Man
as The Old Soldier's Daughter
(1913)
Oil and Water
as In First Audience (uncredited)
(1913)
So Runs the Way
as Fred's Wife
(1913)
(1912)
So Near, Yet So Far
as A Friend
(1912)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
as The Little Lady
(1912)
Brutality
as At Theatre
(1912)
An Unseen Enemy
as Eldest Sister
(1912)
(1912)
Two Daughters of Eve
as In Theatre Crowd
(1912)
The Informer
as Walk on role
(1912)
The Painted Lady
as Belle at Ice Cream Festival
(1912)
A Cry for Help
as The Maid
(1912)
The New York Hat
as Customer in Shop / Outside Church
(1912)
Gold and Glitter
as The Young Woman
(1912)
The Burglar’s Dilemma
as Birthday Wellwisher
(1912)
(1912)
In the Aisles of the Wild
as The Younger Daughter
Crew
(1993)
(1920)
Remodeling Her Husband
Director, Scenario Writer, Story
(1918)