Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1893-10-14
Day of Death
1993-02-27
Place of Birth
Springfield, Ohio, USA
Lillian Gish
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.
Filmography (135)
The Flapper
2021
I Am Not a Racist
2019
The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016
Night Hunter
2011
Sigrid Holmquist
2010
Early Directors on Directing
2009
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
2008
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
2002
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
1995
The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation'
1993
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
1988
The Whales of August
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
