Cast
Lillian Gish
Acting
Cast
Lillian Gish
Known for
Acting
Born
1893-10-14
From
Springfield, Ohio, USA
Died
1993-02-27
Also known as Lillian Diana Gish, The First Lady of American Cinema, Dorothy Elizabeth Carter
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 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.
★7.9
MOVIE1955
The Night of the Hunter
as Rachel Cooper
★6.3
MOVIE1967
Lionpower from MGM
as Self - Mrs. Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1960
The Unforgiven
as Mattilda Zachary
★6.7
MOVIE1924
Romola
as Romola
MOVIE1915
Captain Macklin
as Beatrice
★5.3
MOVIE1955
Film Fun
as (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1915
The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
MOVIE1914
The Sisters
as May
★6.4
MOVIE1946
Duel in the Sun
as Laura Belle McCanles
★5.3
MOVIE1970
Langlois
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE1913
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
as Melissa Harlow
★6.5
MOVIE1984
Lillian Gish
as Self
★7.2
MOVIE1948
Portrait of Jennie
as Mother Mary of Mercy
MOVIE1978
Sparrow
as Widow
★6.7
MOVIE1966
Follow Me, Boys!
as Hetty Seibert
★6.9
MOVIE1919
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
as Lucy Burrows
★5.7
MOVIE1955
The Cobweb
as Victoria Inch
★6.6
MOVIE1986
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Mrs Loftus
★7.1
MOVIE1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
★7.1
MOVIE2016
The Women Who Run Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
★7.3
MOVIE1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1985
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
MOVIE1913
The Stolen Bride
★7.0
MOVIE1987
The Whales of August
as Sarah Webber
★5.3
MOVIE1986
Sweet Liberty
as Cecelia Burgess
MOVIE1963
Mrs. Winchester's House
as Narrator
★5.5
MOVIE1942
Commandos Strike at Dawn
as Mrs. Bergesen
★6.1
MOVIE1967
The Comedians
as Mrs. Smith
MOVIE2021
The Flapper
as (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1969
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Martha Brewster
MOVIE1914
The Tear That Burned
as Anita - the Truant
★7.3
MOVIE1928
The Wind
as Letty
★6.4
MOVIE1967
Warning Shot
as Alice Willows
★5.8
MOVIE1982
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2011
Night Hunter
★6.1
MOVIE1914
Judith of Bethulia
as The Young Mother
★7.0
MOVIE1919
True Heart Susie
as Susie May Trueheart
★7.2
MOVIE1958
Orders to Kill
as Mrs. Summers
★7.5
MOVIE1932
The Movie Album
as (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1993
The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation'
as Self (Archive footage)
★6.9
MOVIE1920
Way Down East
as Anna Moore
MOVIE1913
Just Gold
as The First Brother's Sweetheart
★6.0
MOVIE1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
MOVIE1913
So Runs the Way
as Fred's Wife
MOVIE1912
Brutality
as At Theatre
MOVIE1916
The Children Pay
as Millicent
★7.0
MOVIE1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1913
Oil and Water
as In First Audience (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1914
The Folly of Anne
as Anne
MOVIE1913
A Modest Hero
as The Wife
★6.3
MOVIE1978
A Wedding
as Nettie Sloan
MOVIE1912
In the Aisles of the Wild
as The Younger Daughter
MOVIE1913
Madonna of the Storm
as The Mother
★6.8
MOVIE1921
Orphans of the Storm
as Henriette Girard
★7.1
MOVIE1927
The Scarlet Letter
as Hester Prynne
★5.8
MOVIE1967
The Comedians in Africa
as Self (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1923
The White Sister
as Angela Chiaromonte
MOVIE1921
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
as Herself
★8.0
MOVIE1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self (archive footage)
★5.7
MOVIE1983
Hambone and Hillie
as Hillie Radcliffe
★5.0
MOVIE1914
Home, Sweet Home
as Payne's Sweetheart
MOVIE1912
Gold and Glitter
as The Young Woman
★6.0
MOVIE1918
Hearts of the World
as The Girl - Marie Stephenson
★10.0
MOVIE1953
The Trip to Bountiful
as Carrie Watts
★9.0
MOVIE1914
A Duel for Love
MOVIE1912
The One She Loved
★7.0
MOVIE1983
Hobson's Choice
as Miss Molly Winkle
MOVIE1912
Two Daughters of Eve
as In Theatre Crowd
MOVIE1913
A Misunderstood Boy
as The Daughter
★8.0
MOVIE1976
Twin Detectives
as Billy Jo Haskins
★5.3
MOVIE1912
The Burglar’s Dilemma
as Birthday Wellwisher
★9.0
MOVIE1943
Top Man
as Beth Warren
★5.6
MOVIE1912
An Unseen Enemy
as Eldest Sister
★7.0
MOVIE1995
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
as Self
★7.2
MOVIE1974
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE1914
The Battle of the Sexes
as Jane Andrews, the daughter
★5.6
MOVIE1912
The New York Hat
as Customer in Shop / Outside Church
★5.0
MOVIE1913
The Unwelcome Guest
as At Auction (uncredited)
MOVIE1916
An Innocent Magdalene
as Dorothy Raleigh
★1.0
MOVIE1916
Daphne and the Pirate
as Daphne La Tour
★6.2
MOVIE1912
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
as The Little Lady
★8.5
MOVIE1946
Miss Susie Slagle's
as Miss Susie Slagle
★6.3
MOVIE1915
Enoch Arden
as Annie Lee
MOVIE1913
An Indian's Loyalty
as The Ranchero's Daughter
★6.8
MOVIE1927
Annie Laurie
as Annie Laurie
★5.9
MOVIE1912
So Near, Yet So Far
as A Friend
★8.0
MOVIE1961
The Spiral Staircase
as Mrs. Warren
MOVIE1913
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
as The Rugmaker's Daughter
MOVIE1915
The Lily and the Rose
as Mary Randolph
MOVIE1916
Diane of the Follies
as Diane
★5.0
MOVIE2008
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
as Self (archive footage)
★5.0
MOVIE1913
The House of Darkness
as The Nurse
★5.9
MOVIE1916
Sold for Marriage
as Marfa
MOVIE1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
★6.1
MOVIE1919
The Greatest Question
as Nellie Jarvis
MOVIE2019
I Am Not a Racist
as Elsie (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1926
La Bohème
as Mimi
★5.8
MOVIE1930
One Romantic Night
as Princess Alexandra
★6.3
MOVIE1927
The Enemy
as Pauli Arndt
★7.0
MOVIE2010
Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
MOVIE1918
The Great Love
as Susie Broadplains
MOVIE1914
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
as Kitty Belle
MOVIE1912
A Cry for Help
as The Maid
★6.4
MOVIE1962
The Great Chase
★8.0
MOVIE1986
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1914
Lord Chumley
as Eleanor Butterworth
★5.5
MOVIE1912
My Baby
MOVIE1914
The Hunchback
as The Orphan - as an Adult
★10.0
MOVIE1998
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1914
The Green-Eyed Devil
as Mary Miller
★6.9
MOVIE1919
A Romance of Happy Valley
as Jennie Timberlake
MOVIE1916
The House Built Upon Sand
as Evelyn Dare
★5.6
MOVIE1913
The Mothering Heart
as The Wife
★5.7
MOVIE1912
The Painted Lady
as Belle at Ice Cream Festival
★4.8
MOVIE1913
A Timely Interception
as The Farmer's Daughter
MOVIE1912
The Informer
as Walk on role
MOVIE1917
Souls Triumphant
as Lillian Vale
★7.0
MOVIE1914
The Angel of Contention
as Nettie - the Angel
MOVIE1913
The Lady and the Mouse
as The First Sister
★8.0
MOVIE1922
From Farm to Fame
as Lillian Gish
★9.0
MOVIE1981
Thin Ice
as Grandmother
MOVIE1918
The Greatest Thing in Life
as Jeannette Peret
★5.0
MOVIE1913
The Little Tease
as Girl in bandana
MOVIE2009
Early Directors on Directing
as Self
MOVIE1913
A Woman in the Ultimate
as Verda
★8.0
MOVIE1915
His Lesson
as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
MOVIE1988
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
as Herself, Archive footage
MOVIE1913
The Blue or the Gray
MOVIE1913
During the Round-Up
as The Ranchero's Daughter
★6.5
MOVIE1933
His Double Life
as Alice Chalice
★10.0
MOVIE1914
The Quicksands
★10.0
MOVIE1916
Pathways of Life
MOVIE1913
The Left-Handed Man
as The Old Soldier's Daughter
MOVIE2002
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
MOVIE1915
The Lost House
as Dosia Dale
★9.0
MOVIE1914
Man's Enemy
as Grace Lisle
★7.0
MOVIE1918