Lillian Gish
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1893-10-14 (100 years old)
Deathday
1993-02-27
Place of Birth
Springfield, Ohio, USA
Also known As
Lillian Diana Gish
The First Lady of American Cinema
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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 playi...
Acting
1919
as Lucy Burrows
1915
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
1916
as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
1955
as Rachel Cooper
1928
as Letty
1960
as Mattilda Zachary
1920
as Anna Moore
1988
as Herself, Archive footage
1946
as Laura Belle McCanles
1948
as Mother Mary of Mercy
1958
as Mrs. Summers
2009
as Self
1966
as Hetty Seibert
2019
as Elsie
1919
as Susie May Trueheart
1921
as Henriette Girard
1912
as The Little Lady
1978
as Nettie Sloan
1986
as Cecelia Burgess
1987
as Sarah Webber
1923
as Angela Chiaromonte
1924
as Romola
1961
as Self (archive footage)
1955
as Victoria Inch
1912
as In Theatre Crowd
1927
as Hester Prynne
1912
as The Young Woman
1912
as The Maid
1913
as The Ranchero's Daughter
1913
as The Rugmaker's Daughter
1913
as The Old Soldier's Daughter
1913
as The Wife
1913
as Fred's Wife
1913
as The First Brother's Sweetheart
1914
as The Orphan - as an Adult
1967
as Alice Willows
1913
as The Wife
1912
as Eldest Sister
1914
as The Young Mother
1942
as Mrs. Bergesen
1915
as Annie Lee
1913
as Melissa Harlow
1926
as Mimi
2011
1912
as Customer in Shop / Outside Church
1983
as Hillie Radcliffe
1922
as Lillian Gish
1961
as Mrs. Warren
1912
as Belle at Ice Cream Festival
1933
as Alice Chalice
1919
as Jennie Timberlake
1912
as A Friend
1912
as Birthday Wellwisher
1930
as Princess Alexandra
1914
as Payne's Sweetheart
1918
as The Girl - Marie Stephenson
1919
as Nellie Jarvis
1927
as Annie Laurie
1915
as Mary Randolph
1943
as Beth Warren
1914
1915
as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
1946
as Miss Susie Slagle
1967
as Mrs. Smith
1916
as Daphne La Tour
1986
as Mrs Loftus
1985
as Self
1916
as Diane
1916
as Millicent
1916
as Evelyn Dare
1916
as Dorothy Raleigh
1918
as Jeannette Peret
1918
as Susie Broadplains
1913
as The Ranchero's Daughter
1913
as Verda
1927
as Pauli Arndt
2008
as Self (archive footage)
1974
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1970
as Self
1916
as Marfa
1986
as Self (archive footage)
1917
as Lillian Vale
1921
as Herself
1967
as Self (uncredited)
1925
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
2007
as Self (archive footage)
1913
as Girl in bandana
1995
1969
as Martha Brewster
1998
as Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
1914
as Jane Andrews, the daughter
2010
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
1983
as Miss Molly Winkle
1913
as The Farmer's Daughter
2014
as Self (archive footage)
1963
as Narrator
2016
as Self (archive footage)
1975
as Self (archive footage)
1981
as Grandmother
1913
as The First Sister
1955
as (archive footage)
1913
as The Mother
1914
as Nettie - the Angel
1912
as The Younger Daughter
1953
as Carrie Watts
1913
as The Daughter
1914
as Eleanor Butterworth
1914
as May
1913
as The Nurse
1914
1914
as Grace Lisle
1914
as Anita - the Truant
1914
as Kitty Belle
1915
as Beatrice
1916
1915
as Dosia Dale
1914
as Mary Miller
1914
as Anne
1976
as Billy Jo Haskins
1912
as Walk on role
1912
1913
1913
as At Auction (uncredited)
1913
as In First Audience (uncredited)
1912
as At Theatre
2021
as (archive footage)
1984
as Self
1982
as Self
1962
1987
Production
1920
as Director
1920
as Scenario Writer
1920
as Story
1918
as Story
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