Lillian Gish

ActorCrewDirectorWriter Oct 14 (died age 99) Springfield, Ohio, USA 1912–2021 (109 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

The Night of the Hunter

Rachel Cooper

Film

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle

Film

The Birth of a Nation

Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

Film

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

Lucy Burrows

Film

The Wind

Letty

Film

Portrait of Jennie

Mother Mary of Mercy

Film

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

Film

The Unforgiven

Mattilda Zachary

Filmography

Acting (150)

Movies (133)

The Flapper

2021

as (archive footage)

I Am Not a Racist

2019

as Elsie

The Women Who Run Hollywood

2016

as Self (archive footage)

Night Hunter

Sigrid Holmquist

as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

7.0

Early Directors on Directing

2009

as Self

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

2008

as Self (archive footage)

5.0

D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913

2002

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

1998

as Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)

Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'

1995

as Self

7.0

Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me

1988

as Herself, Archive footage

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

as Self

The Whales of August

as Sarah Webber

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

as Mrs Loftus

Sweet Liberty

as Cecelia Burgess

Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown

1986

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

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

Twin Detectives

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)

Langlois

as Self

Arsenic and Old Lace

as Martha Brewster

The Comedians in Africa

as Self (uncredited)

Warning Shot

as Alice Willows

The Comedians

as Mrs. Smith

Lionpower from MGM

as Self - Mrs. Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)

4.5

Follow Me, Boys!

1966

as Hetty Seibert

6.5

Mrs. Winchester's House

1963

as Narrator

The Great Chase

1962

6.2

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

1961

as Self (archive footage)

The Spiral Staircase

as Mrs. Warren

The Unforgiven

as Mattilda Zachary

Orders to Kill

as Mrs. Summers

The Night of the Hunter

as Rachel Cooper

The Cobweb

as Victoria Inch

Film Fun

as (archive footage)

The Trip to Bountiful

1953

as Carrie Watts

Portrait of Jennie

1948

as Mother Mary of Mercy

7.2

Duel in the Sun

1946

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

One Romantic Night

as Princess Alexandra

The Wind

as Letty

Annie Laurie

as Annie Laurie

The Scarlet Letter

as Hester Prynne

The Enemy

as Pauli Arndt

La Bohème

as Mimi

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

1925

as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

Romola

as Romola

The White Sister

as Angela Chiaromonte

7.0

From Farm to Fame

1922

as Lillian Gish

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)

1921

as Herself

Orphans of the Storm

as Henriette Girard

Way Down East

as Anna Moore

The Greatest Question

1919

as Nellie Jarvis

5.9

A Romance of Happy Valley

1919

as Jennie Timberlake

6.9

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

1919

as Lucy Burrows

6.9

True Heart Susie

1919

as Susie May Trueheart

6.9

Hearts of the World

1918

as The Girl - Marie Stephenson

6.0

The Great Love

1918

as Susie Broadplains

Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal

1918

The Greatest Thing in Life

1918

as Jeannette Peret

Souls Triumphant

1917

as Lillian Vale

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

1916

as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle

7.1

Daphne and the Pirate

as Daphne La Tour

Sold for Marriage

as Marfa

The Children Pay

as Millicent

Pathways of Life

1916

An Innocent Magdalene

1916

as Dorothy Raleigh

Diane of the Follies

1916

as Diane

The House Built Upon Sand

1916

as Evelyn Dare

The Lily and the Rose

1915

as Mary Randolph

The Birth of a Nation

1915

as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

6.0

His Lesson

1915

as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)

The Lost House

1915

as Dosia Dale

Captain Macklin

1915

as Beatrice

Enoch Arden

1915

as Annie Lee

6.3

The Angel of Contention

1914

as Nettie - the Angel

The Green-Eyed Devil

1914

as Mary Miller

The Sisters

1914

as May

The Folly of Anne

1914

as Anne

The Battle of the Sexes

1914

as Jane Andrews, the daughter

A Duel for Love

1914

The Tear That Burned

1914

as Anita - the Truant

Home, Sweet Home

1914

as Payne's Sweetheart

Judith of Bethulia

as The Young Mother

The Quicksands

Lord Chumley

as Eleanor Butterworth

7.0

The Hunchback

1914

as The Orphan - as an Adult

Man's Enemy

1914

as Grace Lisle

The Rebellion of Kitty Belle

1914

as Kitty Belle

Oil and Water

1913

as In First Audience (uncredited)

The Stolen Bride

1913

The House of Darkness

1913

as The Nurse

5.0

A Modest Hero

1913

as The Wife

Just Gold

1913

as The First Brother's Sweetheart

The Little Tease

1913

as Girl in bandana

5.0

Madonna of the Storm

1913

as The Mother

The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

1913

as Melissa Harlow

5.9

A Timely Interception

1913

as The Farmer's Daughter

4.8

A Misunderstood Boy

1913

as The Daughter

The Mothering Heart

as The Wife

The Blue or the Gray

An Indian's Loyalty

as The Ranchero's Daughter

A Woman in the Ultimate

1913

as Verda

So Runs the Way

1913

as Fred's Wife

The Lady and the Mouse

1913

as The First Sister

The Unwelcome Guest

1913

as At Auction (uncredited)

5.0

The Left-Handed Man

1913

as The Old Soldier's Daughter

The Conscience of Hassan Bey

1913

as The Rugmaker's Daughter

During the Round-Up

1913

as The Ranchero's Daughter

In the Aisles of the Wild

1912

as The Younger Daughter

The New York Hat

1912

as Customer in Shop / Outside Church

5.6

Brutality

1912

as At Theatre

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

as The Little Lady

So Near, Yet So Far

as A Friend

An Unseen Enemy

as Eldest Sister

The Informer

as Walk on role

The Painted Lady

1912

as Belle at Ice Cream Festival

5.5

A Cry for Help

1912

as The Maid

Gold and Glitter

1912

as The Young Woman

My Baby

1912

5.5

The Burglar’s Dilemma

1912

as Birthday Wellwisher

5.3

The One She Loved

1912

Two Daughters of Eve

1912

as In Theatre Crowd

Television (17)

Hollywood

1980

as Self

8.3

The Kennedy Center Honors

as Self

The Love Boat

as Mrs. Williams

The Hollywood Greats

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self

Film '72

as Self

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Mr. Novak

as Maude Phipps

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Bessie Carnby

The Defenders

as Louisa Clarendon

Tony Awards

as Self - Award Accepter

The Alcoa Hour

as Esther Crampton

Playwrights '56

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

as Grandma Moses

7.2

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950

5.6

The Philco Television Playhouse

as Abby

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Crew (5)

Movies (5)

The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors

1993

Thanks

1.0

Remodeling Her Husband

1920

Director

1.0

Remodeling Her Husband

1920

Scenario Writer

1.0

Remodeling Her Husband

1920

Story

1.0

The Greatest Thing in Life

1918

Story