People
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... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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The Flapper as (archive footage) | 2021-04-08 |
The Women Who Run Hollywood as Self (archive footage) | 2016-05-16 |
And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Night Hunter | 2011-04-01 |
Sigrid Holmquist as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage) | 2010-10-08 |
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies as Self (archive footage) | 2008-08-29 |
Cannes: All Access as Self (archive footage) | 2007-10-27 |
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 | 2002-09-10 |
Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter' as Self (archive footage) | 2002-08-15 |
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists as Lucy - The Girl (archive footage) | 1998-01-01 |
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter' as Self | 1995-02-19 |
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me as Herself, Archive footage | 1988-07-11 |
The Whales of August as Sarah Webber | 1987-10-14 |
Sweet Liberty as Cecelia Burgess | 1986-05-16 |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Mrs Loftus | 1986-02-10 |
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown as Self (archive footage) | 1986-01-01 |
Night of 100 Stars II as Self | 1985-03-10 |
Hobson's Choice as Miss Molly Winkle | 1983-12-21 |
Hambone and Hillie as Hillie Radcliffe | 1983-04-24 |
Lillian Gish as Herself | 1983-01-01 |
Night of 100 Stars as Self | 1982-03-08 |
Thin Ice as Grandmother | 1981-02-17 |
A Wedding as Nettie Sloan | 1978-08-29 |
Twin Detectives as Billy Jo Haskins | 1976-05-01 |
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage) | 1975-04-19 |
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1974-04-11 |
Langlois as Self | 1970-09-19 |
Arsenic and Old Lace as Martha Brewster | 1969-04-02 |
The Comedians as Mrs. Smith | 1967-10-31 |
The Comedians in Africa as Self (uncredited) | 1967-08-31 |
Warning Shot as Alice Willows | 1967-01-18 |
Follow Me, Boys! as Hetty Seibert | 1966-12-01 |
The Love Goddesses as (archive footage) | 1965-03-03 |
Mrs. Winchester's House as Narrator | 1963-10-31 |
The Spiral Staircase as Mrs. Warren | 1961-10-04 |
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino as Self (archive footage) | 1961-05-24 |
The Unforgiven as Mattilda Zachary | 1960-04-06 |
Orders to Kill as Mrs. Summers | 1958-07-25 |
The Night of the Hunter as Rachel Cooper | 1955-08-26 |
Film Fun as (archive footage) | 1955-08-19 |
The Cobweb as Victoria Inch | 1955-06-07 |
The Trip to Bountiful as Carrie Watts | 1953-03-01 |
Portrait of Jennie as Mother Mary of Mercy | 1948-12-25 |
Duel in the Sun as Laura Belle McCanles | 1946-12-31 |
Miss Susie Slagle's as Miss Susie Slagle | 1946-03-04 |
Top Man as Beth Warren | 1943-09-17 |
Commandos Strike at Dawn as Mrs. Bergesen | 1942-12-30 |
His Double Life as Alice Chalice | 1933-12-14 |
One Romantic Night as Princess Alexandra | 1930-04-30 |
The Wind as Letty | 1928-09-15 |
The Enemy as Pauli Arndt | 1927-12-08 |
Annie Laurie as Annie Laurie | 1927-05-10 |
The Scarlet Letter as Hester Prynne | 1927-01-08 |
La Bohème as Mimi | 1926-03-13 |
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
Romola as Romola | 1924-12-06 |
The White Sister as Angela Chiaromonte | 1923-09-05 |
From Farm to Fame as Lillian Gish | 1922-10-01 |
Orphans of the Storm as Henriette Girard | 1921-12-28 |
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20) as Herself | 1921-02-22 |
Way Down East as Anna Moore | 1920-09-03 |
The Greatest Question as Nellie Jarvis | 1919-12-27 |
True Heart Susie as Susie May Trueheart | 1919-06-01 |
Broken Blossoms as Lucy Burrows | 1919-05-13 |
A Romance of Happy Valley as Jennie Timberlake | 1919-01-26 |
The Greatest Thing in Life as Jeannette Peret | 1918-12-22 |
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal | 1918-11-17 |
The Great Love as Susie Broadplains | 1918-08-11 |
Hearts of the World as The Girl - Marie Stephenson | 1918-03-11 |
Souls Triumphant as Lillian Vale | 1917-05-19 |
The House Built Upon Sand as Evelyn Dare | 1916-12-31 |
The Children Pay as Millicent | 1916-11-26 |
Diane of the Follies as Diane | 1916-09-24 |
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle | 1916-09-04 |
An Innocent Magdalene as Dorothy Raleigh | 1916-06-18 |
Sold for Marriage as Marfa | 1916-04-15 |
Daphne and the Pirate as Daphne La Tour | 1916-03-04 |
Pathways of Life | 1916-01-01 |
The Lily and the Rose as Mary Randolph | 1915-11-06 |
Captain Macklin as Beatrice | 1915-04-22 |
Enoch Arden as Annie Lee | 1915-04-08 |
The Lost House as Dosia Dale | 1915-03-25 |
The Birth of a Nation as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie | 1915-02-08 |
His Lesson as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited) | 1915-01-05 |
The Sisters as May | 1914-11-29 |
The Folly of Anne as Anne | 1914-11-14 |
The Tear That Burned as Anita - the Truant | 1914-11-08 |
Man's Enemy as Grace Lisle | 1914-08-01 |
The Angel of Contention as Nettie - the Angel | 1914-07-05 |
Lord Chumley as Eleanor Butterworth | 1914-06-14 |
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle as Kitty Belle | 1914-06-14 |
Home, Sweet Home as Payne's Sweetheart | 1914-05-16 |
The Quicksands | 1914-05-01 |
The Battle of the Sexes as Jane Andrews, the daughter | 1914-04-12 |
The Hunchback as The Orphan - as an Adult | 1914-04-12 |
Judith of Bethulia as The Young Mother | 1914-03-08 |
The Green-Eyed Devil as Mary Miller | 1914-02-28 |
A Duel for Love | 1914-01-01 |
The Conscience of Hassan Bey as The Rugmaker's Daughter | 1913-12-20 |
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch as Melissa Harlow | 1913-12-01 |
The Blue or the Gray | 1913-11-29 |
Madonna of the Storm as The Mother | 1913-10-25 |
So Runs the Way as Fred's Wife | 1913-10-11 |
A Modest Hero as The Wife | 1913-09-08 |
A Woman in the Ultimate as Verda | 1913-09-03 |
An Indian's Loyalty as The Ranchero's Daughter | 1913-08-15 |
During the Round-Up as The Ranchero's Daughter | 1913-07-19 |
The Mothering Heart as The Wife | 1913-06-21 |
A Timely Interception as The Farmer's Daughter | 1913-06-07 |
Just Gold as The First Brother's Sweetheart | 1913-05-24 |
The House of Darkness as The Nurse | 1913-05-10 |
The Lady and the Mouse as The First Sister | 1913-04-26 |
The Left-Handed Man as The Old Soldier's Daughter | 1913-04-21 |
A Misunderstood Boy as The Daughter | 1913-04-19 |
The Little Tease as Girl in bandana | 1913-04-12 |
The Stolen Bride | 1913-04-07 |
The Unwelcome Guest as At Auction (uncredited) | 1913-03-15 |
Oil and Water as In First Audience (uncredited) | 1913-02-10 |
A Cry for Help as The Maid | 1912-12-23 |
The Burglar’s Dilemma as Birthday Wellwisher | 1912-12-16 |
The New York Hat as Customer in Shop / Outside Church | 1912-12-05 |
Brutality as At Theatre | 1912-12-02 |
The Informer as Walk on role | 1912-11-21 |
My Baby | 1912-11-14 |
Gold and Glitter as The Young Woman | 1912-11-11 |
The Musketeers of Pig Alley as The Little Lady | 1912-10-31 |
The Painted Lady as Belle at Ice Cream Festival | 1912-10-24 |
The One She Loved | 1912-10-21 |
In the Aisles of the Wild as The Younger Daughter | 1912-10-14 |
So Near, Yet So Far as A Friend | 1912-09-29 |
Two Daughters of Eve as In Theatre Crowd | 1912-09-19 |
An Unseen Enemy as Eldest Sister | 1912-09-09 |