Person Details
Birthday: 1893-10-14 21:22:40
Death: 1993-02-27 21:22:40
Aliases: Lillian Diana Gish , The First Lady of American Cinema , Dorothy Elizabeth Carter
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Springfield, Ohio, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 113
TV Involvements: 13
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lillian Gish, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Tony Awards
(1956) Self - Award AccepterThe Defenders
(1961) Mrs. CooperThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962) Bessie CarnbyThe Philco Television Playhouse
(1948) Carrie WattsThe Night of the Hunter
(1955) Rachel CooperThe Unforgiven
(1960) Mattilda ZacharyThe Birth of a Nation
(1915) Stoneman's Daughter ElsieBroken Blossoms
(1919) Lucy BurrowsActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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2023 | Herself (archival footage) | |
2021 | (archival footage) | |
2016 | Herself (archive footage) | |
2014 | Self (archive footage) | |
2011 | N/A | |
2010 | Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage) | |
2008 | Self (archive footage) | |
2007 | Self (archive footage) | |
2002 | N/A | |
Self (archive footage) | ||
1998 | Lucy - The Girl (archive footage) | |
1995 | Self | |
1988 | Herself, Archive footage | |
1987 | Sarah Webber | |
1986 | Cecelia Burgess | |
Mrs Loftus | ||
Self (archive footage) | ||
1985 | Self | |
1983 | Miss Molly Winkle | |
Hillie Radcliffe | ||
Herself | ||
1982 | Self | |
1981 | Grandmother | |
1980 | Self | |
1978 | Self | |
Nettie Sloan | ||
1977 | Mrs. Williams | |
1976 | Billy Jo Haskins | |
1975 | Self (archive footage) | |
1973 | Self | |
1970 | Self | |
1969 | Martha Brewster | |
1968 | Self - Guest | |
1967 | Mrs. Smith | |
Self (uncredited) | ||
Alice Willows | ||
1966 | Hetty Seibert | |
1965 | (archive footage) | |
1963 | Narrator | |
Maude Phipps | ||
1962 | Bessie Carnby | |
1961 | Mrs. Warren | |
Mrs. Cooper | ||
Louisa Clarendon | ||
Self (archive footage) | ||
1960 | Mattilda Zachary | |
1958 | Mrs. Summers | |
1956 | Self - Presenter | |
Self - Award Accepter | ||
1955 | Esther Crampton | |
N/A | ||
Rachel Cooper | ||
(archive footage) | ||
Victoria Inch | ||
1953 | Carrie Watts | |
1951 | Grandma Moses | |
1950 | N/A | |
1948 | Mother Mary of Mercy | |
Abby | ||
Narrator | ||
Carrie Watts | ||
Self | ||
1946 | Laura Belle McCanles | |
Miss Susie Slagle | ||
1943 | Beth Warren | |
1942 | Mrs. Bergesen | |
1933 | Alice Chalice | |
1930 | Princess Alexandra | |
1928 | Letty | |
1927 | Pauli Arndt | |
Annie Laurie | ||
Hester Prynne | ||
1926 | Mimi | |
1925 | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | |
1924 | Romola | |
1923 | Angela Chiaromonte | |
1922 | Lillian Gish | |
1921 | Henriette Girard | |
Herself | ||
1920 | Anna Moore | |
1919 | Nellie Jarvis | |
Susie May Trueheart | ||
Lucy Burrows | ||
Jennie Timberlake | ||
1918 | Jeannette Peret | |
N/A | ||
Susie Broadplains | ||
The Girl - Marie Stephenson | ||
1917 | Lillian Vale | |
1916 | Evelyn Dare | |
Millicent | ||
Diane | ||
The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle | ||
Dorothy Raleigh | ||
Marfa | ||
Daphne La Tour | ||
N/A | ||
1915 | Mary Randolph | |
Beatrice | ||
Annie Lee | ||
Dosia Dale | ||
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie | ||
Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited) | ||
1914 | May | |
Anne | ||
Anita - the Truant | ||
Grace Lisle | ||
Nettie - the Angel | ||
Kitty Belle | ||
Eleanor Butterworth | ||
Payne's Sweetheart | ||
N/A | ||
The Orphan - as an Adult | ||
Jane Andrews, the daughter | ||
The Young Mother | ||
Mary Miller | ||
N/A | ||
1913 | The Rugmaker's Daughter | |
Melissa Harlow | ||
N/A | ||
The Mother | ||
Fred's Wife | ||
The Wife | ||
Verda | ||
The Ranchero's Daughter | ||
The Ranchero's Daughter | ||
The Wife | ||
The Farmer's Daughter | ||
The First Brother's Sweetheart | ||
The Nurse | ||
The First Sister | ||
The Old Soldier's Daughter | ||
The Daughter | ||
Girl in bandana | ||
N/A | ||
At Auction (uncredited) | ||
In First Audience (uncredited) | ||
1912 | The Maid | |
Birthday Wellwisher | ||
Customer in Shop / Outside Church | ||
At Theatre | ||
Walk on role | ||
N/A | ||
The Young Woman | ||
The Little Lady | ||
Belle at Ice Cream Festival | ||
N/A | ||
The Younger Daughter | ||
A Friend | ||
In Theatre Crowd | ||
Eldest Sister | ||
N/A | ||
Elsie | ||
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Crew
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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1993 | Thanks | |
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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1920 | Director | |
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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1920 | Scenario Writer | |
Story | ||
1918 | Story | |
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |