Lillian Gish

★ Acting #3,829

1893 - 1993 (age 99) • Acting

Born: 10/14/1893 in Springfield, Ohio, USA

Died: 2/27/1993 (age 99)

Known for: Acting

Lillian Gish

★ Acting #3,829

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.

Known For

The Night of the Hunter

79%

Rachel Cooper

1955

The Birth of a Nation

59%

Stoneman's Daughter Elsie

1915

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

71%

The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle

1916

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

69%

Lucy Burrows

1919

The Unforgiven

62%

Mattilda Zachary

1960

The Love Boat

63%

Mrs. Williams

1977

Duel in the Sun

64%

Laura Belle McCanles

1946

The Wind

73%

Letty

1928

The Flapper

(archive footage)

2021

I Am Not a Racist

Elsie (archive footage) (uncredited)

2019

The Women Who Run Hollywood

71%

Self (archive footage)

2016

Discovering: Robert Mitchum

Self (archive footage)

2014

Night Hunter

60%

2011

Sigrid Holmquist

70%

Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

2010

Early Directors on Directing

Self

2009

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

50%

Self (archive footage)

2008

D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913

2002

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

100%

Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)

1998

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

80%

Self (archive footage)

1995

Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'

70%

Self

1995

The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors

37%

Thanks

1993

The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation'

60%

Self (Archive footage)

1993

Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me

Herself, Archive footage

1988

The Whales of August

70%

Sarah Webber

1987

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

60%

Self

1987

Sweet Liberty

53%

Cecelia Burgess

1986

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

66%

Mrs Loftus

1986

Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown

80%

Self (archive footage)

1986

Night of 100 Stars II

68%

Self

1985

Lillian Gish

65%

Self

1984

Hobson's Choice

70%

Miss Molly Winkle

1983

Hambone and Hillie

57%

Hillie Radcliffe

1983

Night of 100 Stars

58%

Self

1982

Thin Ice

90%

Grandmother

1981

Hollywood

84%

Self

1980

The Kennedy Center Honors

74%

Self

1978