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Lillian Gish
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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 th…
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Lillian Gish's Filmography
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The Flapper
as (archive footage)
I Am Not a Racist
as Elsie (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Discovering: Robert Mitchum
as Self (archive footage)
Night Hunter
Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Early Directors on Directing
as Self
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
as Self (archive footage)
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
as Self
The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation'
as Self (Archive footage)
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
as Self (archive footage)
The Whales of August
as Sarah Webber
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
Sweet Liberty
as Cecelia Burgess
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Mrs Loftus
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
as Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
Lillian Gish
as Self
Hobson's Choice
as Miss Molly Winkle
Hambone and Hillie
as Hillie Radcliffe
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
Thin Ice
as Grandmother
A Wedding
as Nettie Sloan
No Poster
Sparrow
as Widow
Twin Detectives
as Billy Jo Haskins
D.W. Griffith: An American Genius
as Self
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Langlois
as Self
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Martha Brewster
The Comedians
as Mrs. Smith
The Comedians in Africa
as Self (uncredited)
Warning Shot
as Alice Willows
Lionpower from MGM
as Self - Mrs. Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
Follow Me, Boys!
as Hetty Seibert
Mrs. Winchester's House
as Narrator
The Great Chase
The Spiral Staircase
as Mrs. Warren
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
The Unforgiven
as Mattilda Zachary
Orders to Kill
as Mrs. Summers
No Poster
Film Fun
as (archive footage)
The Night of the Hunter
as Rachel Cooper
The Cobweb
as Victoria Inch
No Poster
The Trip to Bountiful
as Carrie Watts
Portrait of Jennie
as Mother Mary of Mercy
Duel in the Sun
as Laura Belle McCanles
Miss Susie Slagle's
as Miss Susie Slagle
Top Man
as Beth Warren
Commandos Strike at Dawn
as Mrs. Bergesen
His Double Life
as Alice Chalice
The Movie Album
as (archive footage)
One Romantic Night
as Princess Alexandra
The Wind
as Letty
The Enemy
as Pauli Arndt
Annie Laurie
as Annie Laurie
The Scarlet Letter
as Hester Prynne
La Bohème
as Mimi
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Romola
as Romola
The White Sister
as Angela Chiaromonte
From Farm to Fame
as Lillian Gish
Orphans of the Storm
as Henriette Girard
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
as Herself
Way Down East
as Anna Moore
The Greatest Question
as Nellie Jarvis
True Heart Susie
as Susie May Trueheart
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
as Lucy Burrows
A Romance of Happy Valley
as Jennie Timberlake
The Greatest Thing in Life
as Jeannette Peret
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
The Great Love
as Susie Broadplains
Hearts of the World
as The Girl - Marie Stephenson
Souls Triumphant
as Lillian Vale
No Poster
The House Built Upon Sand
as Evelyn Dare
The Children Pay
as Millicent
No Poster
Diane of the Follies
as Diane
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
An Innocent Magdalene
as Dorothy Raleigh
Sold for Marriage
as Marfa
Daphne and the Pirate
as Daphne La Tour
No Poster
Pathways of Life
The Lily and the Rose
as Mary Randolph
No Poster
Captain Macklin
as Beatrice
Enoch Arden
as Annie Lee
The Lost House
as Dosia Dale
The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
No Poster
His Lesson
as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
The Sisters
as May
No Poster
The Folly of Anne
as Anne
The Tear That Burned
as Anita - the Truant
No Poster
Man's Enemy
as Grace Lisle
The Angel of Contention
as Nettie - the Angel
No Poster
Lord Chumley
as Eleanor Butterworth
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
as Kitty Belle
Home, Sweet Home
as Payne's Sweetheart
No Poster
The Quicksands
The Battle of the Sexes
as Jane Andrews, the daughter
No Poster
The Hunchback
as The Orphan - as an Adult
Judith of Bethulia
as The Young Mother
No Poster
The Green-Eyed Devil
as Mary Miller
No Poster
A Duel for Love
No Poster
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
as The Rugmaker's Daughter
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
as Melissa Harlow
No Poster
The Blue or the Gray
No Poster
Madonna of the Storm
as The Mother
No Poster
So Runs the Way
as Fred's Wife
No Poster
A Modest Hero
as The Wife
A Woman in the Ultimate
as Verda
An Indian's Loyalty
as The Ranchero's Daughter
No Poster
During the Round-Up
as The Ranchero's Daughter
The Mothering Heart
as The Wife
A Timely Interception
as The Farmer's Daughter
No Poster
Just Gold
as The First Brother's Sweetheart
The House of Darkness
as The Nurse
The Lady and the Mouse
as The First Sister
No Poster
The Left-Handed Man
as The Old Soldier's Daughter
No Poster
A Misunderstood Boy
as The Daughter
The Little Tease
as Girl in bandana
No Poster
The Stolen Bride
The Unwelcome Guest
as At Auction (uncredited)
Oil and Water
as In First Audience (uncredited)
A Cry for Help
as The Maid
The Burglar’s Dilemma
as Birthday Wellwisher
The New York Hat
as Customer in Shop / Outside Church
Brutality
as At Theatre
The Informer
as Walk on role
My Baby
Gold and Glitter
as The Young Woman
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
as The Little Lady
The Painted Lady
as Belle at Ice Cream Festival
No Poster
The One She Loved
In the Aisles of the Wild
as The Younger Daughter
So Near, Yet So Far
as A Friend
Two Daughters of Eve
as In Theatre Crowd
An Unseen Enemy
as Eldest Sister