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