Lillian Gish
Acting
Born 1893-10-14 · Springfield, Ohio, USA · Died 1993-02-27
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.
Acting
The Flapper
(archive footage)
I Am Not a Racist
Elsie (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Night Hunter
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Early Directors on Directing
Self
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
Self
The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation'
Self (Archive footage)
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
Herself, Archive footage
The Whales of August
Sarah Webber
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
Sweet Liberty
Cecelia Burgess
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mrs Loftus
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Lillian Gish
Self
Hobson's Choice
Miss Molly Winkle
Hambone and Hillie
Hillie Radcliffe
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Thin Ice
Grandmother
Hollywood
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
A Wedding
Nettie Sloan
The Love Boat
Mrs. Williams
Twin Detectives
Billy Jo Haskins
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
