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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as (archival footage)
as Cecelia Burgess
as Alice Willows
as Mrs. Smith
as Hetty Seibert
as Mattilda Zachary
as Mrs. Summers
as Rachel Cooper
as Victoria Inch
as Mother Mary of Mercy
as Laura Belle McCanles
as Beth Warren
as Mrs. Bergesen
as Letty
as Romola
as Henriette Girard
as Anna Moore
as Jennie Timberlake
as Lucy Burrows
as Susie May Trueheart
as Jeannette Peret
as Susie Broadplains
as The Girl - Marie Stephenson
as Daphne La Tour
as Marfa
as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
as Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
as The Young Mother
as The Ranchero's Daughter
