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.
Acting (109 movies)
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919
The Birth of a Nation
1915
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
The Night of the Hunter
1955
The Wind
1928
The Unforgiven
1960
Way Down East
1920
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
1988
Duel in the Sun
1946
Portrait of Jennie
1948
Orders to Kill
1958
Early Directors on Directing
2009
Follow Me, Boys!
1966
I Am Not a Racist
2019
True Heart Susie
1919
Orphans of the Storm
1921
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912
A Wedding
1978
Sweet Liberty
1986
The Whales of August
1987
The White Sister
1923
Romola
1924
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
The Cobweb
1955
Two Daughters of Eve
1912
The Scarlet Letter
1927
Gold and Glitter
1912
A Cry for Help
1912
Warning Shot
1967
The Mothering Heart
1913
An Unseen Enemy
1912
Judith of Bethulia
1914
Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942
Enoch Arden
1915
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
1913
La Bohème
1926
Night Hunter
2011
The New York Hat
1912
Hambone and Hillie
1983
From Farm to Fame
1922
The Spiral Staircase
1961
The Painted Lady
1912
His Double Life
1933
A Romance of Happy Valley
1919
So Near, Yet So Far
1912
The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912
One Romantic Night
1930
Home, Sweet Home
1914
Hearts of the World
1918
The Greatest Question
1919
Annie Laurie
1927
The Lily and the Rose
1915
Top Man
1943
Miss Susie Slagle's
1946
The Comedians
1967
Daphne and the Pirate
1916
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1986
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
The Children Pay
1916
An Innocent Magdalene
1916
The Greatest Thing in Life
1918
The Great Love
1918
An Indian's Loyalty
1913
A Woman in the Ultimate
1913
The Enemy
1927
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
2008
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974
Langlois
1970
Sold for Marriage
1916
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
1986
Souls Triumphant
1917
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
1921
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
1918
The Comedians in Africa
1967
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
2002
The Little Tease
1913
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
1995
Arsenic and Old Lace
1969
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998
The Battle of the Sexes
1914
Sigrid Holmquist
2010
Hobson's Choice
1983
A Timely Interception
1913
Mrs. Winchester's House
1963
The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
Thin Ice
1981
The Lady and the Mouse
1913
The Angel of Contention
1914
In the Aisles of the Wild
1912
The Sisters
1914
The House of Darkness
1913
The Tear That Burned
1914
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
1914
The Lost House
1915
Twin Detectives
1976
The Informer
1912
My Baby
1912
The One She Loved
1912
Directing (1 movie)
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