Lillian Gish
Acting
Born: 1893-10-14 in Springfield, Ohio, USA
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.
Known For
The Love Boat
Mrs. Williams
Tony Awards
Self - Award Accepter
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Bessie Carnby
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Philco Television Playhouse
Abby
The Philco Television Playhouse
Narrator
The Philco Television Playhouse
Carrie Watts
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Defenders
Louisa Clarendon
The Defenders
Mrs. Cooper
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Mr. Novak
Maude Phipps
The Night of the Hunter
Rachel Cooper
The Alcoa Hour
Esther Crampton
Playwrights '56
Hollywood
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
The Unforgiven
Mattilda Zachary
The Birth of a Nation
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Duel in the Sun
Laura Belle McCanles
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Portrait of Jennie
Mother Mary of Mercy
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
Lillian Gish
Self
Twin Detectives
Billy Jo Haskins
The Cobweb
Victoria Inch
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mrs Loftus
Night of 100 Stars
Self
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Melissa Harlow
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Grandma Moses
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Lucy Burrows
A Wedding
Nettie Sloan
The Comedians
Mrs. Smith
Warning Shot
Alice Willows
Sweet Liberty
Cecelia Burgess