Lillian Gish
- Child actor
- Teen actor
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.
Acted in
The Flapper
2021
as (archive footage)
I Am Not a Racist
2019
as Elsie
The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Early Directors on Directing
2014
as Self
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Night Hunter
2011
Sigrid Holmquist
2010
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Cannes: All Access
2007
as Self (archive footage)
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
2002
Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter'
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998
as Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
1995
as Self
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
1988
as Herself, Archive footage
The Whales of August
1987
as Sarah Webber
Sweet Liberty
1986
as Cecelia Burgess
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1986
as Mrs Loftus
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
1986
as Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
Hobson's Choice
1983
as Miss Molly Winkle
Hambone and Hillie
1983
as Hillie Radcliffe
Lillian Gish
1983
as Self
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
Thin Ice
1981
as Grandmother
Hollywood
1980
as Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
A Wedding
1978
as Nettie Sloan
The Love Boat
1977
as Mrs. Williams
Twin Detectives
1976
as Billy Jo Haskins
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
as Self (archive footage)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
Langlois
1970
as Self
Arsenic and Old Lace
1969
as Martha Brewster
The Comedians
1967
as Mrs. Smith
The Comedians in Africa
1967
as Self (uncredited)
Warning Shot
1967
as Alice Willows
Follow Me, Boys!
1966
as Hetty Seibert
Mrs. Winchester's House
1963
as Narrator
Mr. Novak
1963
as Maude Phipps
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Bessie Carnby
The Spiral Staircase
1961
as Mrs. Warren
The Defenders
1961
as Louisa Clarendon
The Defenders
1961
as Mrs. Cooper
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
as Self (archive footage)
The Unforgiven
1960
as Mattilda Zachary
Orders to Kill
1958
as Mrs. Summers
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Award Accepter
The Alcoa Hour
1955
as Esther Crampton
Playwrights '56
1955
The Night of the Hunter
1955
as Rachel Cooper
Film Fun
1955
as (archive footage)
The Cobweb
1955
as Victoria Inch
The Trip to Bountiful
1953
as Carrie Watts
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Grandma Moses
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Portrait of Jennie
1948
as Mother Mary of Mercy
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Abby
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Narrator
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Carrie Watts
Duel in the Sun
1946
as Laura Belle McCanles
Miss Susie Slagle's
1946
as Miss Susie Slagle
Top Man
1943
as Beth Warren
Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942
as Mrs. Bergesen
His Double Life
1933
as Alice Chalice
One Romantic Night
1930
as Princess Alexandra
The Wind
1928
as Letty
The Enemy
1927
as Pauli Arndt
Annie Laurie
1927
as Annie Laurie
The Scarlet Letter
1927
as Hester Prynne
La Bohème
1926
as Mimi
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Romola
1924
as Romola
The White Sister
1923
as Angela Chiaromonte
From Farm to Fame
1922
as Lillian Gish
Orphans of the Storm
1921
as Henriette Girard
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
1921
as Herself
Way Down East
1920
as Anna Moore
The Greatest Question
1919
as Nellie Jarvis
True Heart Susie
1919
as Susie May Trueheart
Broken Blossoms
1919
as Lucy Burrows
A Romance of Happy Valley
1919
as Jennie Timberlake
The Greatest Thing in Life
1918
as Jeannette Peret
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
1918
The Great Love
1918
as Susie Broadplains
Hearts of the World
1918
as The Girl - Marie Stephenson
Souls Triumphant
1917
as Lillian Vale
The House Built Upon Sand
1916
as Evelyn Dare
The Children Pay
1916
as Millicent
Diane of the Follies
1916
as Diane
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
An Innocent Magdalene
1916
as Dorothy Raleigh
Sold for Marriage
1916
as Marfa
Daphne and the Pirate
1916
as Daphne La Tour
Pathways of Life
1916
The Lily and the Rose
1915
as Mary Randolph
Captain Macklin
1915
as Beatrice
Enoch Arden
1915
as Annie Lee
The Lost House
1915
as Dosia Dale
The Birth of a Nation
1915
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
His Lesson
1915
as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
The Sisters
1914
as May
The Folly of Anne
1914
as Anne
The Tear That Burned
1914
as Anita - the Truant
Man's Enemy
1914
as Grace Lisle
The Angel of Contention
1914
as Nettie - the Angel
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
1914
as Kitty Belle
Lord Chumley
1914
as Eleanor Butterworth
Home, Sweet Home
1914
as Payne's Sweetheart
The Quicksands
1914
The Hunchback
1914
as The Orphan - as an Adult
The Battle of the Sexes
1914
as Jane Andrews, the daughter
Judith of Bethulia
1914
as The Young Mother
The Green-Eyed Devil
1914
as Mary Miller
A Duel for Love
1914
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
1913
as The Rugmaker's Daughter
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
1913
as Melissa Harlow
The Blue or the Gray
1913
Madonna of the Storm
1913
as The Mother
So Runs the Way
1913
as Fred's Wife
A Modest Hero
1913
as The Wife
A Woman in the Ultimate
1913
as Verda
An Indian's Loyalty
1913
as The Ranchero's Daughter
During the Round-Up
1913
as The Ranchero's Daughter
The Mothering Heart
1913
as The Wife
A Timely Interception
1913
as The Farmer's Daughter
Just Gold
1913
as The First Brother's Sweetheart
The House of Darkness
1913
as The Nurse
The Lady and the Mouse
1913
as The First Sister
The Left-Handed Man
1913
as The Old Soldier's Daughter
A Misunderstood Boy
1913
as The Daughter
The Little Tease
1913
as Girl in bandana
The Stolen Bride
1913
The Unwelcome Guest
1913
as At Auction (uncredited)
Oil and Water
1913
as In First Audience (uncredited)
A Cry for Help
1912
as The Maid
The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912
as Birthday Wellwisher
The New York Hat
1912
as Customer in Shop / Outside Church
Brutality
1912
as At Theatre
The Informer
1912
as Walk on role
My Baby
1912
Gold and Glitter
1912
as The Young Woman
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912
as The Little Lady
The Painted Lady
1912
as Belle at Ice Cream Festival
The One She Loved
1912
In the Aisles of the Wild
1912
as The Younger Daughter
So Near, Yet So Far
1912
as A Friend
Two Daughters of Eve
1912
as In Theatre Crowd
An Unseen Enemy
1912
as Eldest Sister