Lillian Gish
Acting · Born 1893-10-14 · age 99 at death · Springfield, Ohio, USA
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.
Titles
The Night of the Hunter
The Birth of a Nation
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
The Unforgiven
The Love Boat
Duel in the Sun
The Wind
Portrait of Jennie
Way Down East
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Orphans of the Storm
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Whales of August
A Wedding
True Heart Susie
The Comedians
Sweet Liberty
The Cobweb
The Mothering Heart
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
The Scarlet Letter
Follow Me, Boys!
Judith of Bethulia
The New York Hat
An Unseen Enemy
Warning Shot
Orders to Kill
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Hearts of the World
The Painted Lady
A Romance of Happy Valley
La Bohème
Home, Sweet Home
The Greatest Question
The White Sister
His Double Life
The House of Darkness
The Defenders
The Burglar’s Dilemma
Annie Laurie
The Philco Television Playhouse
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Great Chase
Romola
My Baby
Enoch Arden
So Near, Yet So Far
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
One Romantic Night
Sold for Marriage
Arsenic and Old Lace
Playwrights '56
Hambone and Hillie
The Enemy
Film Fun
Mr. Novak
Remodeling Her Husband