
Lillian Gish
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.
151 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 151

The Love Boat
1977

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

Tony Awards
1956

The Defenders
1961

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Film '72
1971

Mr. Novak
1963

The Kennedy Center Honors
1978

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Playwrights '56
1955

The Alcoa Hour
1955

The Night of the Hunter
1955

Hollywood
1980

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916

Duel in the Sun
1946

The Birth of a Nation
1915

The Unforgiven
1960

Night of 100 Stars
1982

Night of 100 Stars II
1985

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1986

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919

Portrait of Jennie
1948

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987

A Wedding
1978

The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912

Lionpower from MGM
1967

Warning Shot
1967

The Wind
1928

The Cobweb
1955

Orphans of the Storm
1921

The Whales of August
1987

The Scarlet Letter
1927

Sweet Liberty
1986

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974

So Near, Yet So Far
1912

Follow Me, Boys!
1966

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975

Hearts of the World
1918

The Comedians
1967

The New York Hat
1912
The Trip to Bountiful
1953

Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942

The Spiral Staircase
1961

Romola
1924

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961

Home, Sweet Home
1914

Annie Laurie
1927

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998

Twin Detectives
1976

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
2008

Top Man
1943

The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
1913

True Heart Susie
1919

An Unseen Enemy
1912

The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912

Two Daughters of Eve
1912

Sigrid Holmquist
2010

Hambone and Hillie
1983

Way Down East
1920

Judith of Bethulia
1914

Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
1986

The White Sister
1923

La Bohème
1926

Arsenic and Old Lace
1969

D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
2002

Orders to Kill
1958

The Enemy
1927

Hobson's Choice
1983

The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016

My Baby
1912

The Great Love
1918
Man's Enemy
1914

The Unwelcome Guest
1913

Miss Susie Slagle's
1946

Thin Ice
1981

Early Directors on Directing
2009

Brutality
1912
Madonna of the Storm
1913

The Lily and the Rose
1915

Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
1995

The Great Chase
1962
Pathways of Life
1916

The Sisters
1914
The One She Loved
1912

Langlois
1970
Lord Chumley
1914

A Romance of Happy Valley
1919

The Greatest Thing in Life
1918

Sold for Marriage
1916

The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
1914

The Greatest Question
1919

I Am Not a Racist
2019

One Romantic Night
1930

Lillian Gish
1984

The Painted Lady
1912

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
1921
Film Fun
1955

The Lady and the Mouse
1913

Oil and Water
1913

Souls Triumphant
1917

The Battle of the Sexes
1914

The Informer
1912

Enoch Arden
1915

The Lost House
1915
The Left-Handed Man
1913
During the Round-Up
1913
A Modest Hero
1913

Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
1988

The Comedians in Africa
1967

The Children Pay
1916

An Innocent Magdalene
1916

The House of Darkness
1913
The Quicksands
1914

His Double Life
1933
The Blue or the Gray
1913
The Green-Eyed Devil
1914

The Angel of Contention
1914

The Little Tease
1913

The Mothering Heart
1913
Diane of the Follies
1916

A Woman in the Ultimate
1913
A Misunderstood Boy
1913

The Flapper
2021

Gold and Glitter
1912
A Duel for Love
1914

A Cry for Help
1912
The Folly of Anne
1914

Daphne and the Pirate
1916

Night Hunter
2011
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
1913

The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation'
1993
The Hunchback
1914
His Lesson
1915

An Indian's Loyalty
1913

A Timely Interception
1913

Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
1918

The Tear That Burned
1914

In the Aisles of the Wild
1912
Captain Macklin
1915

From Farm to Fame
1922
Just Gold
1913

Mrs. Winchester's House
1963
The House Built Upon Sand
1916
The Stolen Bride
1913

The Movie Album
1932
So Runs the Way
1913
