Lillian Gish

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RECENT CREDITS

Portrait of Jennie (FILM) Jan. 1, 2002

The Whales of August (FILM) Jan. 1, 1987

Sweet Liberty (FILM) May. 14, 1986

A Wedding (FILM) Aug. 29, 1978

Warning Shot (FILM) Jan. 1, 1968

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HIGHLIGHTS

1987 Final film appearance as one of a pair of aged sisters in "The Whales of August"

1986 Cast as the aged mother of a history professor in "Sweet Liberty"

1985 Last TV role, as Mrs. Loftus in the PBS miniseries "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

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1987 Final film appearance as one of a pair of aged sisters in "The Whales of August"

1986 Cast as the aged mother of a history professor in "Sweet Liberty"

1985 Last TV role, as Mrs. Loftus in the PBS miniseries "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

1984 Starred in the ill-advised "Hambone and Hillie"

1978 Appeared in Robert Altman's "A Wedding" as the family matriarch who passes away

1975 Final Broadway performance, "A Musical Jubilee"

1970 Was featured in a Mike Nichols-directed version of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya", starring George C. Scott and Julie Christie

1968 Returned to Broadway to co-star in "I Never Sang for My Father"

1967 Acted in "The Comedians" alongside Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

1966 Had featured role in the Disney movie "Follow Me Boys!"

1965 Broadway musical debut as the Russian Dowager Empress in "Anya", based on "Anastasia"

1963 Starred as Mrs. Moore in a Chicago stage production of E.M. Forster's novel "A Passage to India"

1961 Acted in a TV version of "The Spiral Staircase" (NBC)

1959 Starred in the John Huston-directed "The Unforgiven"

1959 Co-starred in the award-winning Broadway production of "All the Way Home"

1958 Directed a stage production of "The Beggar's Opera" in New Orleans

1958 Had one scene role in "Orders to Kill", directed by Anthony Asquith

1957 Appeared in Berlin in the double bill, "Portrait of a Madonna", a one-act which Tennessee Williams wrote for her and which served as the prototype for Blanche DuBois, and "The Wreck on the 5:25" by Th

1956 Toured with sister Dorothy in "The Chalk Garden"

1955 Played the godfearing, maternal Rachel Cooper in "The Night of the Hunter", directed by Charles Laughton

1953 Originated role of Carrie Watts in Horton Foote's teleplay "The Trip to Bountiful", aired as a presentation of NBC's "Goodyear Television Playhouse"; directed by Vincent J. Donahue; in November, recre

1952 Starred in the CBS presentation "The Autobiography of Grandma Moses"

1949 TV acting debut in the "Philco Television Playhouse" presentation of "The Late Christopher Bean" (NBC)

1948 Second film with Jennifer Jones, "Portrait of Jennie"

1947 Starred opposite Sanford Meisner in the stage play "Crime and Punishment"

1946 Received only Academy Award nomination for supporting work in "Duel in the Sun", starring Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones

1942 Returned to features in "Commandos Strike at Dawn"

1940 Agreed to star in a tour of "Life with Father"; performed in Baltimore and Chicago

1936 Starred in Zoe Akins' adaptation of "The Old Maid"

1936 Played Ophelia to John Geilgud's "Hamlet" on Broadway

1934 Acted in the Broadway production "Within the Gates", staged by Melvyn Douglas

1933 Last film for nearly a decade, "His Double Life"

1932 Enjoyed stage triumph as "Camille"

1930 Returned to Broadway to appear in "Uncle Vanya" alonside Osgood Perkins

1928 Had one of her most remembered roles as the plucky heroine of "The Wind", directed by Victor Sjostrom

1926 Played Mimi in the silent screen version of "La Boheme"

1924 Signed to contract with MGM; first film with the studio "Romola"

1922 Had lead role in the melodramatic "The White Sister"

1921 With sister Dorothy, starred in "Orphans of the Storm"; final film with Griffith

1920 Starred in "Way Down East" under Griffith's direction

1920 Feature directorial debut, "Remodeling Her Husband"; co-wrote script with sister Dorothy (billed under the pseudonymous Dorothy Elizabeth Carter); Dorothy Gish had lead role

1919 Headlined "Broken Blossoms", directed by Griffith

1916 Reunited with Griffith for small role in "Intolerance"

1916 Had rare role as a saucy vixen in "Diane of the Follies"

1915 Was featured in "The Birth of a Nation"

1915 Starred in "The Lily and the Rose"

1914 Appeared in Griffith's "Judith of Bethulia"

1913 Returned to the NYC stage in "A Good Little Devil", supporting Mary Pickford; directed by David Belasco

1912 With mother and sister, moved to NYC

1912 Film acting debut, "An Unseen Enemy"; first film with D.W. Griffith; sister Dorothy was also in the cast

1912 Had featured role in "The Musketeers fo Pig Alley"

1903 NYC stage acting debut in "At Duty's Call"

1902 Stage acting debut in tour of the play "In Convict Stripes"; billed as Lillian Niles; subsequently replaced in role by Gladys Smith (later known as Mary Pickford)