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Known Credits 133

Gender Female

Birthdate 1893-10-14 (132 Y.O)

Place Of Birth Springfield, Ohio, USA

Also Known For Lillian Diana GishThe First Lady of American CinemaDorothy Elizabeth Carter릴리안 기쉬릴리안 기시릴리언 기쉬릴리언 기시

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 ...

Known For

The Flapper

The Women Who Run Hollywood

Early Directors on Directing

And the Oscar Goes To...

Night Hunter

Acting

2021 -- The Flapper | (archive footage)

2016 -- The Women Who Run Hollywood | Self (archive footage)

2014 -- Early Directors on Directing | Self

2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)

2011 -- Night Hunter |

2010 -- Sigrid Holmquist | Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

2008 -- Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies | Self (archive footage)

2007 -- Cannes: All Access | Self (archive footage)

2002 -- D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 |

2002 -- Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter' | Self (archive footage)

1998 -- Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists | Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)

1995 -- Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter' | Self

1988 -- Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me | Herself, Archive footage

1987 -- The Whales of August | Sarah Webber

1986 -- Sweet Liberty | Cecelia Burgess

1986 -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mrs Loftus

1986 -- Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown | Self (archive footage)

1985 -- Night of 100 Stars II | Self

1983 -- Hobson's Choice | Miss Molly Winkle

1983 -- Hambone and Hillie | Hillie Radcliffe

1983 -- Lillian Gish | Herself

1982 -- Night of 100 Stars | Self

1981 -- Thin Ice | Grandmother

1978 -- A Wedding | Nettie Sloan

1976 -- Twin Detectives | Billy Jo Haskins

1975 -- Black Shadows on a Silver Screen | Self (archive footage)

1974 -- Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1970 -- Langlois | Self

1969 -- Arsenic and Old Lace | Martha Brewster

1967 -- The Comedians | Mrs. Smith

1967 -- The Comedians in Africa | Self (uncredited)

1967 -- Warning Shot | Alice Willows

1966 -- Follow Me, Boys! | Hetty Seibert

1963 -- Mrs. Winchester's House | Narrator

1961 -- The Spiral Staircase | Mrs. Warren

1961 -- The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | Self (archive footage)

1960 -- The Unforgiven | Mattilda Zachary

1958 -- Orders to Kill | Mrs. Summers

1955 -- The Night of the Hunter | Rachel Cooper

1955 -- Film Fun | (archive footage)

1955 -- The Cobweb | Victoria Inch

1953 -- The Trip to Bountiful | Carrie Watts

1948 -- Portrait of Jennie | Mother Mary of Mercy

1946 -- Duel in the Sun | Laura Belle McCanles

1946 -- Miss Susie Slagle's | Miss Susie Slagle

1943 -- Top Man | Beth Warren

1942 -- Commandos Strike at Dawn | Mrs. Bergesen

1933 -- His Double Life | Alice Chalice

1930 -- One Romantic Night | Princess Alexandra

1928 -- The Wind | Letty

1927 -- The Enemy | Pauli Arndt

1927 -- Annie Laurie | Annie Laurie

1927 -- The Scarlet Letter | Hester Prynne

1926 -- La Bohème | Mimi

1925 -- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

1924 -- Romola | Romola

1923 -- The White Sister | Angela Chiaromonte

1922 -- From Farm to Fame | Lillian Gish

1921 -- Orphans of the Storm | Henriette Girard

1921 -- Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20) | Herself

1920 -- Way Down East | Anna Moore

1919 -- The Greatest Question | Nellie Jarvis

1919 -- True Heart Susie | Susie May Trueheart

1919 -- Broken Blossoms | Lucy Burrows

1919 -- A Romance of Happy Valley | Jennie Timberlake

1918 -- The Greatest Thing in Life | Jeannette Peret

1918 -- Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal |

1918 -- The Great Love | Susie Broadplains

1918 -- Hearts of the World | The Girl - Marie Stephenson

1917 -- Souls Triumphant | Lillian Vale

1916 -- The House Built Upon Sand | Evelyn Dare

1916 -- The Children Pay | Millicent

1916 -- Diane of the Follies | Diane

1916 -- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle

1916 -- An Innocent Magdalene | Dorothy Raleigh

1916 -- Sold for Marriage | Marfa

1916 -- Daphne and the Pirate | Daphne La Tour

1916 -- Pathways of Life |

1915 -- The Lily and the Rose | Mary Randolph

1915 -- Captain Macklin | Beatrice

1915 -- Enoch Arden | Annie Lee

1915 -- The Lost House | Dosia Dale

1915 -- The Birth of a Nation | Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

1915 -- His Lesson | Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)

1914 -- The Sisters | May

1914 -- The Folly of Anne | Anne

1914 -- The Tear That Burned | Anita - the Truant

1914 -- Man's Enemy | Grace Lisle

1914 -- The Angel of Contention | Nettie - the Angel

1914 -- The Rebellion of Kitty Belle | Kitty Belle

1914 -- Lord Chumley | Eleanor Butterworth

1914 -- Home, Sweet Home | Payne's Sweetheart

1914 -- The Quicksands |

1914 -- The Battle of the Sexes | Jane Andrews, the daughter

1914 -- The Hunchback | The Orphan - as an Adult

1914 -- Judith of Bethulia | The Young Mother

1914 -- The Green-Eyed Devil | Mary Miller

1914 -- A Duel for Love |

1913 -- The Conscience of Hassan Bey | The Rugmaker's Daughter

1913 -- The Battle at Elderbush Gulch | Melissa Harlow

1913 -- The Blue or the Gray |

1913 -- Madonna of the Storm | The Mother

1913 -- So Runs the Way | Fred's Wife

1913 -- A Modest Hero | The Wife

1913 -- A Woman in the Ultimate | Verda

1913 -- An Indian's Loyalty | The Ranchero's Daughter

1913 -- During the Round-Up | The Ranchero's Daughter

1913 -- The Mothering Heart | The Wife

1913 -- A Timely Interception | The Farmer's Daughter

1913 -- Just Gold | The First Brother's Sweetheart

1913 -- The House of Darkness | The Nurse

1913 -- The Lady and the Mouse | The First Sister

1913 -- The Left-Handed Man | The Old Soldier's Daughter

1913 -- A Misunderstood Boy | The Daughter

1913 -- The Little Tease | Girl in bandana

1913 -- The Stolen Bride |

1913 -- The Unwelcome Guest | At Auction (uncredited)

1913 -- Oil and Water | In First Audience (uncredited)

1912 -- A Cry for Help | The Maid

1912 -- The Burglar’s Dilemma | Birthday Wellwisher

1912 -- The New York Hat | Customer in Shop / Outside Church

1912 -- Brutality | At Theatre

1912 -- The Informer | Walk on role

1912 -- My Baby |

1912 -- Gold and Glitter | The Young Woman

1912 -- The Musketeers of Pig Alley | The Little Lady

1912 -- The Painted Lady | Belle at Ice Cream Festival

1912 -- The One She Loved |

1912 -- In the Aisles of the Wild | The Younger Daughter

1912 -- So Near, Yet So Far | A Friend

1912 -- Two Daughters of Eve | In Theatre Crowd

1912 -- An Unseen Enemy | Eldest Sister