
Birthday
1893/10/14
Day of death
1993/02/27 (99 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Springfield, Ohio, USA
Also know as
Lillian Diana Gish, The First Lady of American Cinema, Dorothy Elizabeth Carter, 릴리안 기쉬, 릴리안 기시, 릴리언 기쉬, 릴리언 기시
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 ...Read more

(1919) Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
as Lucy Burrows

(1915) The Birth of a Nation
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

(1916) Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle

(1955) The Night of the Hunter
as Rachel Cooper

(1928) The Wind
as Letty

(1960) The Unforgiven
as Mattilda Zachary

(1920) Way Down East
as Anna Moore

(1988) Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
as Herself, Archive footage

(1946) Duel in the Sun
as Laura Belle McCanles

(1948) Portrait of Jennie
as Mother Mary of Mercy

(1958) Orders to Kill
as Mrs. Summers

(2009) Early Directors on Directing
as Self

(1966) Follow Me, Boys!
as Hetty Seibert

(2019) I Am Not a Racist
as Elsie

(1919) True Heart Susie
as Susie May Trueheart

(1921) Orphans of the Storm
as Henriette Girard

(1912) The Musketeers of Pig Alley
as The Little Lady

(1978) A Wedding
as Nettie Sloan

(1986) Sweet Liberty
as Cecelia Burgess

(1987) The Whales of August
as Sarah Webber

(1923) The White Sister
as Angela Chiaromonte

(1924) Romola
as Romola

(1961) The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)

(1955) The Cobweb
as Victoria Inch

(1912) Two Daughters of Eve
as In Theatre Crowd

(1927) The Scarlet Letter
as Hester Prynne

(1912) Gold and Glitter
as The Young Woman

(1912) A Cry for Help
as The Maid
(1913) During the Round-Up
as The Ranchero's Daughter
(1913) The Conscience of Hassan Bey
as The Rugmaker's Daughter
(1913) The Left-Handed Man
as The Old Soldier's Daughter
(1913) A Modest Hero
as The Wife
(1913) So Runs the Way
as Fred's Wife
(1913) Just Gold
as The First Brother's Sweetheart
(1914) The Hunchback
as The Orphan - as an Adult

(1967) Warning Shot
as Alice Willows

(1913) The Mothering Heart
as The Wife

(1912) An Unseen Enemy
as Eldest Sister

(1914) Judith of Bethulia
as The Young Mother

(1942) Commandos Strike at Dawn
as Mrs. Bergesen

(1915) Enoch Arden
as Annie Lee

(1913) The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
as Melissa Harlow

(1926) La Bohème
as Mimi

(2011) Night Hunter
as ---

(1912) The New York Hat
as Customer in Shop / Outside Church

(1983) Hambone and Hillie
as Hillie Radcliffe

(1922) From Farm to Fame
as Lillian Gish

(1961) The Spiral Staircase
as Mrs. Warren

(1912) The Painted Lady
as Belle at Ice Cream Festival

(1933) His Double Life
as Alice Chalice

(1919) A Romance of Happy Valley
as Jennie Timberlake

(1912) So Near, Yet So Far
as A Friend

(1912) The Burglar’s Dilemma
as Birthday Wellwisher

(1930) One Romantic Night
as Princess Alexandra

(1914) Home, Sweet Home
as Payne's Sweetheart

(1918) Hearts of the World
as The Girl - Marie Stephenson

(1919) The Greatest Question
as Nellie Jarvis

(1927) Annie Laurie
as Annie Laurie

(1915) The Lily and the Rose
as Mary Randolph

(1943) Top Man
as Beth Warren
(1914) A Duel for Love
as ---
(1915) His Lesson
as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)

(1946) Miss Susie Slagle's
as Miss Susie Slagle

(1967) The Comedians
as Mrs. Smith

(1916) Daphne and the Pirate
as Daphne La Tour

(1986) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Mrs Loftus

(1985) Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
(1916) Diane of the Follies
as Diane

(1916) The Children Pay
as Millicent
(1916) The House Built Upon Sand
as Evelyn Dare

(1916) An Innocent Magdalene
as Dorothy Raleigh

(1918) The Greatest Thing in Life
as Jeannette Peret

(1918) The Great Love
as Susie Broadplains

(1913) An Indian's Loyalty
as The Ranchero's Daughter

(1913) A Woman in the Ultimate
as Verda

(1927) The Enemy
as Pauli Arndt

(2008) Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
as Self (archive footage)

(1974) Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

(1970) Langlois
as Self

(1916) Sold for Marriage
as Marfa

(1986) Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
as Self (archive footage)

(1917) Souls Triumphant
as Lillian Vale

(1921) Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
as Herself

(1918) Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
as ---

(1967) The Comedians in Africa
as Self (uncredited)

(1925) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

(2002) D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
as ---

(1913) The Little Tease
as Girl in bandana

(1995) Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
as Self

(1969) Arsenic and Old Lace
as Martha Brewster

(1998) Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)

(1914) The Battle of the Sexes
as Jane Andrews, the daughter

(2010) Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

(1983) Hobson's Choice
as Miss Molly Winkle

(1913) A Timely Interception
as The Farmer's Daughter

(1963) Mrs. Winchester's House
as Narrator

(2016) The Women Who Run Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)

(1975) Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)

(1981) Thin Ice
as Grandmother

(1913) The Lady and the Mouse
as The First Sister
(1955) Film Fun
as (archive footage)
(1913) Madonna of the Storm
as The Mother

(1914) The Angel of Contention
as Nettie - the Angel

(1912) In the Aisles of the Wild
as The Younger Daughter
(1953) The Trip to Bountiful
as Carrie Watts
(1913) A Misunderstood Boy
as The Daughter
(1914) Lord Chumley
as Eleanor Butterworth

(1914) The Sisters
as May

(1913) The House of Darkness
as The Nurse
(1914) The Quicksands
as ---
(1914) Man's Enemy
as Grace Lisle

(1914) The Tear That Burned
as Anita - the Truant

(1914) The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
as Kitty Belle
(1915) Captain Macklin
as Beatrice
(1916) Pathways of Life
as ---

(1915) The Lost House
as Dosia Dale
(1914) The Green-Eyed Devil
as Mary Miller
(1914) The Folly of Anne
as Anne

(1976) Twin Detectives
as Billy Jo Haskins
(1913) The Blue or the Gray
as ---

(1912) The Informer
as Walk on role

(1912) My Baby
as ---
(1913) The Stolen Bride
as ---

(1912) The One She Loved
as ---

(1913) The Unwelcome Guest
as At Auction (uncredited)

(1913) Oil and Water
as In First Audience (uncredited)

(1912) Brutality
as At Theatre

(2021) The Flapper
as (archive footage)

(1984) Lillian Gish
as Self

(1982) Night of 100 Stars
as Self

(1962) The Great Chase
as ---

(1987) Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self

(1967) Lionpower from MGM
as ---

(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self

(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Grandma Moses

(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as Abby

(1963) Mr. Novak
as Maude Phipps

(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as ---
(1955) Playwrights '56
as ---

(1973) The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self

(1961) The Defenders
as Louisa Clarendon

(1961) The Defenders
as Mrs. Cooper

(1978) The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self

(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter

(1980) Hollywood
as Self

(1955) The Alcoa Hour
as Esther Crampton

(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Award Accepter

(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as Narrator

(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as Carrie Watts

(1977) The Love Boat
as Mrs. Williams

(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest

(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Bessie Carnby