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Miss Susie Slagle's
1946
as Miss Susie Slagle
Lillian Gish
Also known as: Lillian Diana Gish, First Lady of American Cinema
Acting
Born:October 14, 1893
Died:February 27, 1993(aged 99)
Birthplace:Springfield, Ohio, USA
Nationality:United States
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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.
Filmography (129 movies)
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Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
1986
as Self (archive footage)
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The Night of the Hunter
1955
as Rachel Cooper
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The Wind
1928
as Letty
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Orders to Kill
1958
as Mrs. Summers
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Portrait of Jennie
1948
as Mother Mary of Mercy
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The Scarlet Letter
1927
as Hester Prynne
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The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016
as Self (archive footage)
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
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Sigrid Holmquist
2010
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
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Lord Chumley
1914
as Eleanor Butterworth
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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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The White Sister
1923
as Angela Chiaromonte
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The Whales of August
1987
as Sarah Webber
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Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
1995
as Self
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Arsenic and Old Lace
1969
as Martha Brewster
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Way Down East
1920
as Anna Moore
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True Heart Susie
1919
as Susie May Trueheart
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A Romance of Happy Valley
1919
as Jennie Timberlake
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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919
as Lucy Burrows
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Orphans of the Storm
1921
as Henriette Girard
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1986
as Mrs Loftus
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Annie Laurie
1927
as Annie Laurie
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Romola
1924
as Romola
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Follow Me, Boys!
1966
as Hetty Seibert
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Lillian Gish
1984
as Self
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His Double Life
1933
as Alice Chalice
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Duel in the Sun
1946
as Laura Belle McCanles
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La Bohème
1926
as Mimi
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Enoch Arden
1915
as Annie Lee
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Warning Shot
1967
as Alice Willows
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The Unforgiven
1960
as Mattilda Zachary
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912
as The Little Lady
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The Great Chase
1962
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Judith of Bethulia
1914
as The Young Mother
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A Wedding
1978
as Nettie Sloan
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The Comedians
1967
as Mrs. Smith
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Twin Detectives
1976
as Billy Jo Haskins
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The Spiral Staircase
1961
as Mrs. Warren
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Hearts of the World
1918
as The Girl - Marie Stephenson
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The Birth of a Nation
1915
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
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So Near, Yet So Far
1912
as A Friend
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The Greatest Question
1919
as Nellie Jarvis
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Sold for Marriage
1916
as Marfa
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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
1913
as Melissa Harlow
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The New York Hat
1912
as Customer in Shop / Outside Church
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The Mothering Heart
1913
as The Wife
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The Cobweb
1955
as Victoria Inch
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An Unseen Enemy
1912
as Eldest Sister
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The Painted Lady
1912
as Belle at Ice Cream Festival
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My Baby
1912
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The Enemy
1927
as Pauli Arndt
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942
as Mrs. Bergesen
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One Romantic Night
1930
as Princess Alexandra
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The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912
as Birthday Wellwisher
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Sweet Liberty
1986
as Cecelia Burgess
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The Comedians in Africa
1967
as Self (uncredited)
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Home, Sweet Home
1914
as Payne's Sweetheart
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The Unwelcome Guest
1913
as At Auction (uncredited)
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The House of Darkness
1913
as The Nurse
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The Little Tease
1913
as Girl in bandana
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Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
2008
as Self (archive footage)
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A Timely Interception
1913
as The Farmer's Daughter
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Langlois
1970
as Self
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Hambone and Hillie
1983
as Hillie Radcliffe
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Film Fun
1955
as (archive footage)
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Daphne and the Pirate
1916
as Daphne La Tour
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Remodeling Her Husband
1920
Director
I Am Not a Racist
2019
as Elsie
Hobson's Choice
1983
as Miss Molly Winkle
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
1921
as Herself
Brutality
1912
as At Theatre
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
1918
The Informer
1912
as Walk on role
The One She Loved
1912
The Lily and the Rose
1915
as Mary Randolph
Top Man
1943
as Beth Warren
Night Hunter
2011
An Innocent Magdalene
1916
as Dorothy Raleigh
Diane of the Follies
1916
as Diane
The Children Pay
1916
as Millicent
The House Built Upon Sand
1916
as Evelyn Dare
The Great Love
1918
as Susie Broadplains
The Greatest Thing in Life
1918
as Jeannette Peret
An Indian's Loyalty
1913
as The Ranchero's Daughter
A Woman in the Ultimate
1913
as Verda
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
as Self (archive footage)
Souls Triumphant
1917
as Lillian Vale
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
2002
The Battle of the Sexes
1914
as Jane Andrews, the daughter
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998
as Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
Oil and Water
1913
as In First Audience (uncredited)
Mrs. Winchester's House
1963
as Narrator
Thin Ice
1981
as Grandmother
The Lady and the Mouse
1913
as The First Sister
Two Daughters of Eve
1912
as In Theatre Crowd
In the Aisles of the Wild
1912
as The Younger Daughter
Gold and Glitter
1912
as The Young Woman
A Cry for Help
1912
as The Maid
A Misunderstood Boy
1913
as The Daughter
The Left-Handed Man
1913
as The Old Soldier's Daughter
Just Gold
1913
as The First Brother's Sweetheart
During the Round-Up
1913
as The Ranchero's Daughter
A Modest Hero
1913
as The Wife
So Runs the Way
1913
as Fred's Wife
Madonna of the Storm
1913
as The Mother
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
1913
as The Rugmaker's Daughter
The Green-Eyed Devil
1914
as Mary Miller
The Hunchback
1914
as The Orphan - as an Adult
The Quicksands
1914
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
1914
as Kitty Belle
The Angel of Contention
1914
as Nettie - the Angel
Man's Enemy
1914
as Grace Lisle
The Tear That Burned
1914
as Anita - the Truant
The Folly of Anne
1914
as Anne
The Sisters
1914
as May
His Lesson
1915
as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
The Lost House
1915
as Dosia Dale
Captain Macklin
1915
as Beatrice
Pathways of Life
1916
The Trip to Bountiful
1953
as Carrie Watts
The Stolen Bride
1913
The Blue or the Gray
1913
The Flapper
2021
as (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
as Self (archive footage)
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
1988
as Herself, Archive footage
From Farm to Fame
1922
as Lillian Gish
A Duel for Love
1914
Early Directors on Directing
2009
as Self
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