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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Movies
The Birth of a Nation
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Broken Blossoms
Lucy Burrows
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
The Night of the Hunter
Rachel Cooper
The Unforgiven
Mattilda Zachary
The Wind
Letty
Way Down East
Anna Moore
Duel in the Sun
Laura Belle McCanles
Portrait of Jennie
Mother Mary of Mercy
Orders to Kill
Mrs. Summers
Follow Me, Boys!
Hetty Seibert
True Heart Susie
Susie May Trueheart
Orphans of the Storm
Henriette Girard
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Little Lady
A Wedding
Nettie Sloan
Sweet Liberty
Cecelia Burgess
The Whales of August
Sarah Webber
The White Sister
Angela Chiaromonte
Romola
Romola
The Cobweb
Victoria Inch
The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynne
Warning Shot
Alice Willows
The Mothering Heart
The Wife
An Unseen Enemy
Eldest Sister
Judith of Bethulia
The Young Mother
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Mrs. Bergesen
Enoch Arden
Annie Lee
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Melissa Harlow
La Bohème
Mimi
The New York Hat
Customer in Shop / Outside Church
Hambone and Hillie
Hillie Radcliffe
His Double Life
Alice Chalice
A Romance of Happy Valley
Jennie Timberlake
So Near, Yet So Far
A Friend
The Burglar’s Dilemma
Birthday Wellwisher
Home, Sweet Home
Payne's Sweetheart
The Greatest Question
Nellie Jarvis
Hearts of the World
The Girl - Marie Stephenson
Annie Laurie
Annie Laurie
The Lily and the Rose
Mary Randolph
Top Man
Beth Warren
Miss Susie Slagle's
Miss Susie Slagle
Daphne and the Pirate
Daphne La Tour
The Comedians
Mrs. Smith
One Romantic Night
Princess Alexandra
The Children Pay
Millicent
The House Built Upon Sand
Evelyn Dare
Diane of the Follies
Diane
An Innocent Magdalene
Dorothy Raleigh
The Great Love
Susie Broadplains
The Greatest Thing in Life
Jeannette Peret
A Woman in the Ultimate
Verda
An Indian's Loyalty
The Ranchero's Daughter
The Painted Lady
Belle at Ice Cream Festival
The Enemy
Pauli Arndt
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Langlois
Self
Sold for Marriage
Marfa
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Self (archive footage)
Souls Triumphant
Lillian Vale
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
Herself
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
The Comedians in Africa
Self (uncredited)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
Cannes: All Access
Self (archive footage)
The Little Tease
Girl in bandana
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
Self
Arsenic and Old Lace
Martha Brewster
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
The Battle of the Sexes
Jane Andrews, the daughter
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Hobson's Choice
Miss Molly Winkle
A Timely Interception
The Farmer's Daughter
The Love Goddesses
(archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Herself (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
Mrs. Winchester's House
Narrator
Thin Ice
Grandmother
The Lady and the Mouse
The First Sister
Film Fun
(archive footage)
The Green-Eyed Devil
Mary Miller
In the Aisles of the Wild
The Younger Daughter
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
Kitty Belle
The Tear That Burned
Anita - the Truant
Man's Enemy
Grace Lisle
The Folly of Anne
Anne
A Misunderstood Boy
The Daughter
Madonna of the Storm
The Mother
The Angel of Contention
Nettie - the Angel
The Quicksands
Lord Chumley
Eleanor Butterworth
Twin Detectives
Billy Jo Haskins
The Lost House
Dosia Dale
The House of Darkness
The Nurse
The Trip to Bountiful
Carrie Watts
The Sisters
May
Captain Macklin
Beatrice
Pathways of Life
My Baby
The Blue or the Gray
The One She Loved
Oil and Water
In First Audience (uncredited)
The Informer
Walk on role
The Unwelcome Guest
At Auction (uncredited)
The Stolen Bride
Brutality
At Theatre
The Flapper
(archival footage)
Lillian Gish
Herself
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
Herself, Archive footage
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
Two Daughters of Eve
In Theatre Crowd
Gold and Glitter
The Young Woman
A Cry for Help
The Maid
The Left-Handed Man
The Old Soldier's Daughter
Just Gold
The First Brother's Sweetheart
During the Round-Up
The Ranchero's Daughter
A Modest Hero
The Wife
So Runs the Way
Fred's Wife
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
The Rugmaker's Daughter
The Hunchback
The Orphan - as an Adult
From Farm to Fame
Lillian Gish
The Spiral Staircase
Mrs. Warren
A Duel for Love
His Lesson
Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mrs Loftus
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Early Directors on Directing
I Am Not a Racist
Elsie
Night Hunter
AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special
Self (archive footage)
Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter'
Self (archive footage)
Shows
Robert Montgomery Presents
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
Abby
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Grandma Moses
Mr. Novak
Maude Phipps
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Playwrights '56
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
Hollywood
Self
Tony Awards
Self - Award Accepter
The Love Boat
Mrs. Williams
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Bessie Carnby
The Defenders
Louisa Clarendon
The Defenders
Mrs. Cooper
The Alcoa Hour
Esther Crampton
The Philco Television Playhouse
Narrator
The Philco Television Playhouse
Carrie Watts
VM Show Vol. 2
Rachel Cooper (archive footage) (uncredited)