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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.

The Flapper
as (archive footage)

I Am Not a Racist
as Elsie (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Women Who Run Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)

Night Hunter

Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

Early Directors on Directing
as Self

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
as Self (archive footage)

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

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)

Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
as Self

The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation'
as Self (Archive footage)

Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
as Herself, Archive footage

The Whales of August
as Sarah Webber

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self

Sweet Liberty
as Cecelia Burgess

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Mrs Loftus

Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
as Self (archive footage)

Night of 100 Stars II
as Self

Lillian Gish
as Self

Hobson's Choice
as Miss Molly Winkle

Hambone and Hillie
as Hillie Radcliffe

Night of 100 Stars
as Self

Thin Ice
as Grandmother

Hollywood
as Self

The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self

A Wedding
as Nettie Sloan

The Love Boat
as Mrs. Williams

Twin Detectives
as Billy Jo Haskins

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
Film '72
as Self

Langlois
as Self

Arsenic and Old Lace
as Martha Brewster

The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest

The Comedians
as Mrs. Smith

The Comedians in Africa
as Self (uncredited)

Warning Shot
as Alice Willows

Lionpower from MGM
as Self - Mrs. Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)

Follow Me, Boys!
as Hetty Seibert

Mrs. Winchester's House
as Narrator

Mr. Novak
as Maude Phipps

The Great Chase

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Bessie Carnby

The Spiral Staircase
as Mrs. Warren

The Defenders
as Louisa Clarendon

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)

The Unforgiven
as Mattilda Zachary

Orders to Kill
as Mrs. Summers

Tony Awards
as Self - Award Accepter

The Alcoa Hour
as Esther Crampton
Playwrights '56
Film Fun
as (archive footage)

The Night of the Hunter
as Rachel Cooper

The Cobweb
as Victoria Inch
The Trip to Bountiful
as Carrie Watts

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Grandma Moses

Robert Montgomery Presents

Portrait of Jennie
as Mother Mary of Mercy

The Philco Television Playhouse
as Abby