Lillian Gish
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
Movie
The Night of the Hunter
as Rachel Cooper
1955
Movie
The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
1915
Movie
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
1916
Movie
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
as Lucy Burrows
1919
Movie
The Unforgiven
as Mattilda Zachary
1960
Movie
Duel in the Sun
as Laura Belle McCanles
1946
TV
The Love Boat
as Mrs. Williams
1977
Movie
The Wind
as Letty
1928
Movie
Portrait of Jennie
as Mother Mary of Mercy
1948
Movie
Way Down East
as Anna Moore
1920
Movie
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
Movie
Orphans of the Storm
as Henriette Girard
1921
Movie
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
as The Little Lady
1912
TV
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Bessie Carnby
1962
Movie
The Whales of August
as Sarah Webber
1987
Movie
A Wedding
as Nettie Sloan
1978
Movie
True Heart Susie
as Susie May Trueheart
1919
Movie
The Comedians
as Mrs. Smith
1967
Movie
Sweet Liberty
as Cecelia Burgess
1986
Movie
The Cobweb
as Victoria Inch
1955
Movie
The Mothering Heart
as The Wife
1913
Movie
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
as Melissa Harlow
1913
Movie
The Scarlet Letter
as Hester Prynne
1927
Movie
Judith of Bethulia
as The Young Mother
1914
