Lillian Gish
Actor
Born October 14, 1893 in Springfield, Ohio, USA
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.
Filmography
The Flapper
(archive footage)
I Am Not a Racist
Elsie (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Night Hunter
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Early Directors on Directing
Self
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
Self
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation'
Self (Archive footage)
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
Herself, Archive footage
The Whales of August
Sarah Webber
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
Sweet Liberty
Cecelia Burgess
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mrs Loftus
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Lillian Gish
Self
Hobson's Choice
Miss Molly Winkle
Hambone and Hillie
Hillie Radcliffe
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Thin Ice
Grandmother
Hollywood
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
A Wedding
Nettie Sloan
The Love Boat
Mrs. Williams
Twin Detectives
Billy Jo Haskins
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
Langlois
Self
Arsenic and Old Lace
Martha Brewster
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Comedians
Mrs. Smith
The Comedians in Africa
Self (uncredited)
Warning Shot
Alice Willows
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Mrs. Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
Follow Me, Boys!
Hetty Seibert
Mrs. Winchester's House
Narrator
Mr. Novak
Maude Phipps
The Great Chase
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Bessie Carnby
The Spiral Staircase
Mrs. Warren
The Defenders
Louisa Clarendon
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
The Unforgiven
Mattilda Zachary
Orders to Kill
Mrs. Summers
Tony Awards
Self - Award Accepter
The Alcoa Hour
Esther Crampton
The Night of the Hunter
Rachel Cooper
The Cobweb
Victoria Inch
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Grandma Moses
Robert Montgomery Presents
Portrait of Jennie
Mother Mary of Mercy
The Philco Television Playhouse
Abby
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
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
The Movie Album
(archive footage)
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
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
Herself
Way Down East
Anna Moore
Remodeling Her Husband
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 Children Pay
Millicent
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
The Lily and the Rose
Mary Randolph
Enoch Arden
Annie Lee
The Lost House
Dosia Dale
The Birth of a Nation
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
The Sisters
May
The Tear That Burned
Anita - the Truant
The Angel of Contention
Nettie - the Angel
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
Kitty Belle
Home, Sweet Home
Payne's Sweetheart
The Battle of the Sexes
Jane Andrews, the daughter
Judith of Bethulia
The Young Mother
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Melissa Harlow
A Woman in the Ultimate
Verda
An Indian's Loyalty
The Ranchero's Daughter
The Mothering Heart
The Wife
A Timely Interception
The Farmer's Daughter
The House of Darkness
The Nurse
The Lady and the Mouse
The First Sister
The Little Tease
Girl in bandana
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
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