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
1988
- Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me as (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
- Tiptoes as Tiptoes Kaye
- London as Mavis Hogan
- Madame Pompadour as Madame Pompadour
1926
- Camille: The Fate of a Coquette as Grace
- Clothes Make the Pirate as Betsy Tidd
- Nell Gwyn as Nell Gwyn
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
- The Beautiful City as Mollie
- Night Life of New York as Meg
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
- Flying Pat as Patricia Van Nuys
- Little Miss Rebellion as Grand Duchess Marie Louise
- Mary Ellen Comes to Town as Mary Ellen
1919
- Nugget Nell as Nugget Nell
- Nobody Home as Frances Wadsworth
- Peppy Polly as Polly
- Boots as Boots
- I'll Get Him Yet as Susy Faraday Jones
- Turning the Tables as Doris Pennington
1918
- Battling Jane as Jane
- The Hun Within as Beth
- Hearts of the World as The Little Disturber
- The Hope Chest as Sheila Moore
1917
- The Little Yank as Sallie Castleton
- Her Official Fathers as Janice
- Stage Struck as Ruth Colby
1916
- Betty of Greystone as Betty Lockwood
- Susan Rocks the Boat as Susan Johnstone
- The Little School Ma'am as Nan
- The Children of the Feud as Sairy Ann
- Gretchen the Greenhorn as Gretchen Van Houck
- Little Meena's Romance as Meena
- Atta Boy's Last Race as Lois Brandon
1915
- Her Grandparents as Dorothy
- Old Heidelberg as Katie Ruder
- Minerva's Mission as Minerva
- An Old-Fashioned Girl as Abigail - the Country Girl
- The Mountain Girl as Nell - the Mountain Girl
- Her Mother's Daughter as Marie
- Out of Bondage as Mary McRae
- Bred in the Bone as Mercy, at Sixteen
- The Little Catamount as Hattie - the Little Catamount
- How Hazel Got Even as Hazel
- Jordan Is a Hard Road as Cora Findley
- His Lesson as Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
- Victorine as Dottie
- The Lost Lord Lowell as Molly - the Maid
1914
- The Wife as Kitty Ives - Debutante
- Her Father's Silent Partner
- Liberty Belles as Dorothy Ketcham
- The Sisters as Carol (May's younger sister)
- Granny as Nell
- Home, Sweet Home as Sister of Payne's Sweetheart
- Judith of Bethulia as Crippled Beggar
- The Painted Lady as Jess - the Younger Sister
- Cigar Butts
- Their First Acquaintance as Miriam Talbot
- The Warning as Dorothy
- A Fair Rebel as Joan Fitzhugh - the Adopted Sister
- The Floor Above as Stella Ford
- The Old Man as The Maid-of-All-Work
- The Mountain Rat as Nell - 'The Mountain Rat'
- The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
- The Availing Prayer as May Rock
- The Saving Grace as Mollie Kite - the Girl
- Back to the Kitchen as The Ranchman's Daughter
- Her Old Teacher as Marjorie
- A Duel for Love
- The Different Man
- Down the Hill to Creditville as Mamie New
- Sands of Fate as Helen Robinson
- The Better Way as Sunbeam
- The Tavern of Tragedy as Dorothy Bell - the Innkeeper's Stepdaughter
- A Lesson in Mechanics as Ruth Wilson
- The Newer Woman as Dot
- The Mysterious Shot as Marylee Price
- Arms and the Gringo
- Her Mother's Necklace as Bessie
- The Suffragette's Battle in Nuttyville
- The City Beautiful as The City Girl
- Silent Sandy as Mary Jones
1913
- Pa Says as Dot
- Just Gold as The Sweetheart's Sister
- Papa's Baby as Young Mother
- Red Hicks Defies the World as Hicks' Sweetheart
- Almost a Wild Man as Miss Smart / Sideshow Patron
- The Suffragette Minstrels as Among Suffragette Minstrels
- Those Little Flowers as A Messenger
- Oil and Water as In First Audience (uncredited)
- The Perfidy of Mary as Rose
- The Widow's Kids as One of the Kids
- Broken Ways as In Telegraph Office (uncredited)
- The Lady in Black as The Girl
- The House of Discord as The Daughter
- The Blue or the Gray
- The Reformers as Dancer (uncredited)
- His Mother's Son as Woman at Dock (uncredited)
- A Cure for Suffragettes as Suffragette
- The Lady and the Mouse as The Second Sister
- By Man's Law as At League Meeting (uncredited)
- The Adopted Brother as The Daughter
- Her Mother's Oath as The Daughter
1912
- The Musketeers of Pig Alley as Frizzy-Haired Woman in Street (uncredited)
- My Baby as Wedding Guest
- An Unseen Enemy as Youngest Sister
- The New York Hat
- So Near, Yet So Far as A Friend
- The Burglar’s Dilemma as Birthday Wellwisher
- My Hero as The Young Woman
- A Cry for Help as Witness to Accident
- The Painted Lady as Belle at Ice Cream Festival
- Two Daughters of Eve as In Theatre Crowd
- The Informer as The Southern Girl