Lillian Gish
Birthday: 1893-10-14 | Place of Birth: Springfield, Ohio, USALillian 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lillian Gish, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Acting
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as Elsie Mewman
as (archive footage)
as Elsie
as Self
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Herself, Archive footage
as Sarah Webber
as Cecelia Burgess
as Mrs Loftus
as Self
as Nettie Sloan
as Billy Jo Haskins
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Alice Willows
as Mrs. Smith
as Hetty Seibert
as Mrs. Warren
as Mattilda Zachary
as Mrs. Summers
as Rachel Cooper
as Victoria Inch
