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)
(2011)
(2010)
Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
(2009)
Early Directors on Directing
as Self
(2008)
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
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)
The Whales of August
as Sarah Webber
(1987)
(1986)
Sweet Liberty
as Cecelia Burgess
(1986)
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
as Self (archive footage)
(1986)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Mrs Loftus
(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)
(1967)
(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)
Annie Laurie
as Annie Laurie
(1927)
The Enemy
as Pauli Arndt
(1927)
The Scarlet Letter
as Hester Prynne
(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)
True Heart Susie
as Susie May Trueheart
(1919)
A Romance of Happy Valley
as Jennie Timberlake
(1919)
The Greatest Question
as Nellie Jarvis
(1919)
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
as Lucy Burrows
(1918)
The Great Love
as Susie Broadplains
(1918)
Hearts of the World
as The Girl - Marie Stephenson
(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)
(1916)
The Children Pay
as Millicent
(1916)
An Innocent Magdalene
as Dorothy Raleigh
(1916)
Sold for Marriage
as Marfa
(1916)
The House Built Upon Sand
as Evelyn Dare
(1916)
Diane of the Follies
as Diane
(1915)
The Lily and the Rose
as Mary Randolph
(1915)
His Lesson
as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
(1915)
The Lost House
as Dosia Dale
(1915)
The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
(1915)
Enoch Arden
as Annie Lee
(1915)
Captain Macklin
as Beatrice
(1914)
The Angel of Contention
as Nettie - the Angel
(1914)
Man's Enemy
as Grace Lisle
(1914)
Home, Sweet Home
as Payne's Sweetheart
(1914)
(1914)
The Green-Eyed Devil
as Mary Miller
(1914)
The Battle of the Sexes
as Jane Andrews, the daughter
(1914)
Judith of Bethulia
as The Young Mother
(1914)
The Sisters
as May
(1914)
Lord Chumley
as Eleanor Butterworth
(1914)
The Hunchback
as The Orphan - as an Adult
(1914)
The Folly of Anne
as Anne
(1914)
The Tear That Burned
as Anita - the Truant
(1914)
(1914)
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
as Kitty Belle
(1913)
The Mothering Heart
as The Wife
(1913)
The Left-Handed Man
as The Old Soldier's Daughter
(1913)
A Misunderstood Boy
as The Daughter
(1913)
A Timely Interception
as The Farmer's Daughter
(1913)
The Lady and the Mouse
as The First Sister
(1913)
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
as Melissa Harlow
(1913)
The House of Darkness
as The Nurse
(1913)
Oil and Water
as In First Audience (uncredited)
(1913)
An Indian's Loyalty
as The Ranchero's Daughter
(1913)
(1913)
A Woman in the Ultimate
as Verda
(1913)
During the Round-Up
as The Ranchero's Daughter
(1913)
The Little Tease
as Girl in bandana
(1913)
Just Gold
as The First Brother's Sweetheart
(1913)
So Runs the Way
as Fred's Wife
(1913)
A Modest Hero
as The Wife
(1913)
(1913)
Madonna of the Storm
as The Mother
(1913)
The Unwelcome Guest
as At Auction (uncredited)
(1913)
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
as The Rugmaker's Daughter
(1912)
An Unseen Enemy
as Eldest Sister
(1912)
The Informer
as Walk on role
(1912)
The Burglar’s Dilemma
as Birthday Wellwisher
(1912)
The Painted Lady
as Belle at Ice Cream Festival
(1912)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
as The Little Lady
(1912)
The New York Hat
as Customer in Shop / Outside Church
(1912)
So Near, Yet So Far
as A Friend
(1912)
Brutality
as At Theatre
(1912)
(1912)
(1912)
Two Daughters of Eve
as In Theatre Crowd
(1912)
In the Aisles of the Wild
as The Younger Daughter
(1912)
Gold and Glitter
as The Young Woman
(1912)
A Cry for Help
as The Maid
Crew
(1993)
(1920)
Remodeling Her Husband
Director, Scenario Writer, Story
(1918)