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(154)
Mrs. Williams
1977
1950
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Award Accepter
1956
Abby
1948
Narrator
1948
Carrie Watts
1948
Bessie Carnby
1962
Self
1948
Louisa Clarendon
1961
Mrs. Cooper
1961
Maude Phipps
1963
Self - Guest
1968
Self
1978
1967
Self (archive footage)
2007
Rachel Cooper
1955
Self (archive footage)
2014
Carrie Watts
1953
Self
1973
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
1915
Laura Belle McCanles
1946
Nettie Sloan
1978
Mattilda Zachary
1960
1955
Lucy Burrows
1919
Grandmother
1981
Self
1980
Victoria Inch
1955
Annie Laurie
1927
The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
1916
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Beth Warren
1943
Alice Willows
1967
Alice Chalice
1933
Sarah Webber
1987
Letty
1928
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
Self (archive footage)
1975
Herself
1921
Self
1982
Lillian Gish
1922
Esther Crampton
1955
Self
1987
Grandma Moses
1951
Billy Jo Haskins
1976
Self (archive footage)
1961
Hillie Radcliffe
1983
The Girl - Marie Stephenson
1918
1913
Self
1970
Anne
1914
Cecelia Burgess
1986
Mrs. Bergesen
1942
Mrs. Warren
1961
Jane Andrews, the daughter
1914
Self
1985
2002
Payne's Sweetheart
1914
Mrs. Smith
1967
Walk on role
1912
May
1914
Mother Mary of Mercy
1948
Susie Broadplains
1918
1962
A Friend
1912
1912
Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
1998
Elsie
2019
Birthday Wellwisher
1912
The Little Lady
1912
1912
Hetty Seibert
1966
The First Sister
1913
Mimi
1926
Miss Susie Slagle
1946
2011
Mrs. Summers
1958
Melissa Harlow
1913
At Theatre
1912
Verda
1913
Self
2009
In First Audience (uncredited)
1913
Princess Alexandra
1930
Marfa
1916
The Wife
1913
The Ranchero's Daughter
1913
Romola
1924
Anna Moore
1920
Self (uncredited)
1967
Eleanor Butterworth
1914
Hester Prynne
1927
Customer in Shop / Outside Church
1912
1914
Henriette Girard
1921
Millicent
1916
Annie Lee
1915
Mary Miller
1914
In Theatre Crowd
1912
Self
1984
The Young Mother
1914
Self (archive footage)
1986
Self (archive footage)
2016
Evelyn Dare
1916
Jennie Timberlake
1919
Mary Randolph
1915
Miss Molly Winkle
1983
Angela Chiaromonte
1923
The Farmer's Daughter
1913
Susie May Trueheart
1919
At Auction (uncredited)
1913
The Younger Daughter
1912
Pauli Arndt
1927
The Mother
1913
The Rugmaker's Daughter
1913
Martha Brewster
1969
Kitty Belle
1914
Dorothy Raleigh
1916
The Young Woman
1912
Eldest Sister
1912
Nellie Jarvis
1919
(archive footage)
2021
Self
1995
1914
Herself, Archive footage
1988
(archive footage)
1955
The Daughter
1913
Mrs Loftus
1986
Grace Lisle
1914
Anita - the Truant
1914
1918
Diane
1916
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
2010
The Old Soldier's Daughter
1913
Daphne La Tour
1916
The First Brother's Sweetheart
1913
Nettie - the Angel
1914
The Maid
1912
Girl in bandana
1913
Belle at Ice Cream Festival
1912
Fred's Wife
1913
1913
The Ranchero's Daughter
1913
Jeannette Peret
1918
Narrator
1963
Dosia Dale
1915
Self (archive footage)
2008
Beatrice
1915
Lillian Vale
1917
Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
1915
The Wife
1913
The Nurse
1913
1916
The Orphan - as an Adult
1914
