Dorothy Gish
Born: 1898-03-09 in Dayton, Ohio, USA
Died: 1968-06-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy also had great success on the stage, and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Dorothy Gish was noted as a fine comedian, and many of her films were comedies.
Filmography
2005
- James Dean: Forever Young as Self (archive footage)
1988
- Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me as Self (archive footage)
1963
- The Cardinal as Celia Fermoyle
1959
- Play of the Week as Aaronetta
1955
- The Alcoa Hour as Arry Gibbs
1954
- The Elgin Hour as Miss Psyche
1953
- The United States Steel Hour as Mrs, Lapham
- Harvest as Ellen Zalinka
1951
- Goodyear Television Playhouse
- The Whistle at Eaton Falls as Mrs Doubleday
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Emily Madison
- Lux Video Theatre
- Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse as Mary Surratt
- The Ford Theatre Hour
1946
- Centennial Summer as Mrs. Rogers
1944
- Our Hearts Were Young and Gay as Mrs. Skinner
1930
- Wolves as Leila McDonald
1927
- London as Mavis Hogan
- Tiptoes as Tiptoes Kaye
- Madame Pompadour as Madame Pompadour
1926
- Clothes Make the Pirate as Betsy Tidd
- Camille: The Fate of a Coquette as Grace
- Nell Gwyn as Nell Gwyn
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
- Night Life of New York as Meg
- The Beautiful City as Mollie
1924
- Romola as Tessa
1923
- Fury as Minnie
- The Bright Shawl as La Clavel
1922
- The Country Flapper as Jolanda Whiple - the Country Flapper
1921
- Orphans of the Storm as Louise Girard
- The Ghost in the Garret as Delsie O'Dell
1920
- Remodeling Her Husband as Janie Wakefield
- Mary Ellen Comes to Town as Mary Ellen
- Flying Pat as Patricia Van Nuys
- Little Miss Rebellion as Grand Duchess Marie Louise
1919
- Nobody Home as Frances Wadsworth
- Nugget Nell as Nugget Nell
- I'll Get Him Yet as Susy Faraday Jones
- Peppy Polly as Polly
- Boots as Boots
- Turning the Tables as Doris Pennington
1918
- Hearts of the World as The Little Disturber
- Battling Jane as Jane
- The Hun Within as Beth
- The Hope Chest as Sheila Moore
1917
- Her Official Fathers as Janice
- Stage Struck as Ruth Colby
- The Little Yank as Sallie Castleton
1916
- Gretchen the Greenhorn as Gretchen Van Houck
- Susan Rocks the Boat as Susan Johnstone
- The Children of the Feud as Sairy Ann
- The Little School Ma'am as Nan
- Betty of Greystone as Betty Lockwood
- Little Meena's Romance as Meena
- Atta Boy's Last Race as Lois Brandon
1915
- Her Grandparents as Dorothy
- Jordan Is a Hard Road as Cora Findley
- How Hazel Got Even as Hazel
- An Old-Fashioned Girl as Abigail - the Country Girl
- The Lost Lord Lowell as Molly - the Maid
- Her Mother's Daughter as Marie
- Bred in the Bone as Mercy, at Sixteen
- His Lesson as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
- Out of Bondage as Mary McRae
- Old Heidelberg as Katie Ruder
- The Little Catamount as Hattie - the Little Catamount
- The Mountain Girl as Nell - the Mountain Girl
- Victorine as Dottie
- Minerva's Mission as Minerva
1914
- The Warning as Dorothy
- The Sisters as Carol (May's younger sister)
- The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
- Liberty Belles as Dorothy Ketcham
- Cigar Butts
- Home, Sweet Home as Sister of Payne's Sweetheart
- The Wife as Kitty Ives - Debutante
- Judith of Bethulia as Crippled Beggar
- Her Mother's Necklace as Bessie
- A Duel for Love
- Her Father's Silent Partner
- Granny as Nell
- Arms and the Gringo
- A Lesson in Mechanics as Ruth Wilson
- The Mountain Rat as Nell - 'The Mountain Rat'
- A Fair Rebel as Joan Fitzhugh - the Adopted Sister
- Back to the Kitchen as The Ranchman's Daughter
- Down the Hill to Creditville as Mamie New
- The Tavern of Tragedy as Dorothy Bell - the Innkeeper's Stepdaughter
- The Painted Lady as Jess - the Younger Sister
- The Different Man
- The City Beautiful as The City Girl
- Sands of Fate as Helen Robinson
- The Newer Woman as Dot
- Their First Acquaintance as Miriam Talbot
- The Availing Prayer as May Rock
- Her Old Teacher as Marjorie
- The Suffragette's Battle in Nuttyville
- The Mysterious Shot as Marylee Price
- The Better Way as Sunbeam
- The Saving Grace as Mollie Kite - the Girl
- The Old Man as The Maid-of-All-Work
- The Floor Above as Stella Ford
- Silent Sandy as Mary Jones
1913
- Almost a Wild Man as Miss Smart / Sideshow Patron
- Red Hicks Defies the World as Hicks' Sweetheart
- Pa Says as Dot
- Just Gold as The Sweetheart's Sister
- The Perfidy of Mary as Rose
- His Mother's Son as Woman at Dock (uncredited)
- The House of Discord as The Daughter
- The Lady and the Mouse as The Second Sister
- The Widow's Kids as One of the Kids
- Oil and Water as In First Audience (uncredited)
- By Man's Law as At League Meeting (uncredited)
- The Blue or the Gray
- Her Mother's Oath as The Daughter
- The Lady in Black as The Girl
- The Adopted Brother as The Daughter
- The Suffragette Minstrels as Among Suffragette Minstrels
- A Cure for Suffragettes as Suffragette
- Those Little Flowers as A Messenger
- Papa's Baby as Young Mother
- The Reformers as Dancer (uncredited)
- Broken Ways as In Telegraph Office (uncredited)
1912
- The Musketeers of Pig Alley as Frizzy-Haired Woman in Street (uncredited)
- So Near, Yet So Far as A Friend
- The New York Hat
- Two Daughters of Eve as In Theatre Crowd
- The Burglar’s Dilemma as Birthday Wellwisher
- A Cry for Help as Witness to Accident
- An Unseen Enemy as Youngest Sister
- The Painted Lady as Belle at Ice Cream Festival
- The Informer as The Southern Girl
- My Baby as Wedding Guest
- My Hero as The Young Woman