Lillian Gish
AKA: Lillian Diana Gish
Birthday: 1893-10-14
Died: 1993-02-27
Birthplace: Springfield, Ohio, USA
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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Filmography
Character: Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Character: The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
Character: Mattilda Zachary
Character: Laura Belle McCanles
Character: Mother Mary of Mercy
Character: Susie May Trueheart
Character: Henriette Girard
Character: The Little Lady
Character: Cecelia Burgess
Character: Angela Chiaromonte
Character: The Young Mother
Character: Melissa Harlow
Character: Customer in Shop / Outside Church
Character: Hillie Radcliffe
Character: Jennie Timberlake
Character: Birthday Wellwisher
Character: Payne's Sweetheart
Character: The Girl - Marie Stephenson
Character: Miss Susie Slagle
Character: Daphne La Tour
Character: Princess Alexandra
Character: Dorothy Raleigh
Character: Jeannette Peret
Character: Susie Broadplains
Character: The Ranchero's Daughter
Character: Belle at Ice Cream Festival
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Character: Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Girl in bandana
Character: Martha Brewster
Character: Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
Character: Jane Andrews, the daughter
Character: Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Character: Miss Molly Winkle
Character: The Farmer's Daughter
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Herself (archive footage)
Character: The First Sister
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Nettie - the Angel
Character: Eleanor Butterworth
Character: Anita - the Truant
Character: The Younger Daughter
Character: Billy Jo Haskins
Character: In First Audience (uncredited)
Character: At Auction (uncredited)
Character: (archival footage)
Character: Herself, Archive footage
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: In Theatre Crowd
Character: The Young Woman
Character: The Old Soldier's Daughter
Character: The First Brother's Sweetheart
Character: The Ranchero's Daughter
Character: The Rugmaker's Daughter
Character: The Orphan - as an Adult
Character: Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)