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