Lillian Gish
Acting
🎂 1893-10-14
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.
Cast credits(153)
1950
Self - Guest
1968
Bessie Carnby
1962
Self
1948
Louisa Clarendon
1961
Mrs. Cooper
1961
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Award Accepter
1956
Abby
1948
Narrator
1948
Carrie Watts
1948
Mrs. Williams
1977
Self
1978
Maude Phipps
1963
Esther Crampton
1955
Self
1973
Self
1980
1955
Rachel Cooper
1955
Grandma Moses
1951
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
1915
Mattilda Zachary
1960
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
Laura Belle McCanles
1946
The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
1916
Anna Moore
1920
Self
1985
Lucy Burrows
1919
Nettie Sloan
1978
Self (archive footage)
2014
Self
1987
Self
1982
Victoria Inch
1955
Hetty Seibert
1966
The First Sister
1913
Mother Mary of Mercy
1948
Henriette Girard
1921
Cecelia Burgess
1986
Mrs. Bergesen
1942
Letty
1928
2002
Self (archive footage)
2016
Sarah Webber
1987
Payne's Sweetheart
1914
Jane Andrews, the daughter
1914
Mrs. Smith
1967
Martha Brewster
1969
Self (archive footage)
2007
Alice Willows
1967
Miss Molly Winkle
1983
Beth Warren
1943
Mrs. Summers
1958
Hillie Radcliffe
1983
1912
Self (archive footage)
1961
Pauli Arndt
1927
Angela Chiaromonte
1923
Mrs. Warren
1961
1912
The Mother
1913
Elsie
2019
Hester Prynne
1927
The Wife
1913
The Little Lady
1912
In Theatre Crowd
1912
Romola
1924
A Friend
1912
The Young Mother
1914
Mrs Loftus
1986
Eleanor Butterworth
1914
Self
1984
The Wife
1913
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Susie Broadplains
1918
Mimi
1926
Daphne La Tour
1916
Annie Laurie
1927
Self (archive footage)
1986
At Auction (uncredited)
1913
The Maid
1912
Self (uncredited)
1967
Alice Chalice
1933
Susie May Trueheart
1919
Mary Randolph
1915
Self
1970
Billy Jo Haskins
1976
Dorothy Raleigh
1916
Jennie Timberlake
1919
Melissa Harlow
1913
At Theatre
1912
Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
1998
Customer in Shop / Outside Church
1912
The Daughter
1913
Anita - the Truant
1914
Walk on role
1912
Herself, Archive footage
1988
Eldest Sister
1912
The Girl - Marie Stephenson
1918
1913
In First Audience (uncredited)
1913
Miss Susie Slagle
1946
Grandmother
1981
Jeannette Peret
1918
The Nurse
1913
2011
The Rugmaker's Daughter
1913
The First Brother's Sweetheart
1913
1918
Carrie Watts
1953
The Younger Daughter
1912
Kitty Belle
1914
The Young Woman
1912
Fred's Wife
1913
Dosia Dale
1915
The Ranchero's Daughter
1913
Beatrice
1915
Grace Lisle
1914
The Orphan - as an Adult
1914
Diane
1916
Verda
1913
Belle at Ice Cream Festival
1912
(archive footage)
1955
Self (archive footage)
2008
Self
2009
Marfa
1916
Self (archive footage)
1975
1962
Girl in bandana
1913
The Ranchero's Daughter
1913
Herself
1921
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
2010
Narrator
1963
Millicent
1916
Lillian Vale
1917
1914
Nellie Jarvis
1919
Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
1915
The Farmer's Daughter
1913
Evelyn Dare
1916
Self
1995
May
1914
Birthday Wellwisher
1912
Mary Miller
1914
1914
Anne
1914
Nettie - the Angel
1914
1913
Lillian Gish
1922
Princess Alexandra
1930
1916
(archive footage)
2021
The Old Soldier's Daughter
1913
Annie Lee
1915
