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Lillian Gish
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 w…
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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.
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2021
The Flapper
Movie (archive footage)
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2019
I Am Not a Racist
Movie Elsie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2016
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
Discovering: Robert Mitchum
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2011
Night Hunter
Movie
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2010
Sigrid Holmquist
Movie Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
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2009
Early Directors on Directing
Movie Self
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2008
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2002
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1998
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Movie Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
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1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1995
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
Movie Self
- 1993
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1993
The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation'
Movie Self (Archive footage)
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1988
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
Movie Herself, Archive footage
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1987
The Whales of August
Movie Sarah Webber
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1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Movie Self
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1986
Sweet Liberty
Movie Cecelia Burgess
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1986
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Movie Mrs Loftus
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1986
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1985
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie Self
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1984
Lillian Gish
Movie Self
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1983
Hobson's Choice
Movie Miss Molly Winkle
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1983
Hambone and Hillie
Movie Hillie Radcliffe
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1982
Night of 100 Stars
Movie Self
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1981
Thin Ice
Movie Grandmother
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1980
Hollywood
TV show Self
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1978
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV show Self
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1978
A Wedding
Movie Nettie Sloan
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1978
Sparrow
Movie Widow
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1977
The Love Boat
TV show Mrs. Williams
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1976
Twin Detectives
Movie Billy Jo Haskins
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1975
D.W. Griffith: An American Genius
Movie Self
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1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1974
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV show Self
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1971
Film '72
TV show Self
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1970
Langlois
Movie Self
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1969
Arsenic and Old Lace
Movie Martha Brewster
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
