Dorothy Gish
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1898-03-09
Place of Birth:Dayton, Ohio, USA
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Also Known As:Dorothy Elizabeth Gish

A Cure for Suffragettes (1913)
Caroline Spankhurst and her suffragette brigade conclude to stop at nothing, so in their dauntless enthusiasm they forget their babies peacefully...

The Cardinal (1963)
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me (1988)
Called "the first lady of the silent screen," Lillian Gish was the archetypal silent film heroine — the delicate damsel in distress, stranded...

Orphans of the Storm (1921)
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents'...

The Country Flapper (1922)
Country girl Jolanda has lost her boyfriend, Nathaniel Huggins, to a "flapper" from the city. Jolanda blackmails Nathaniel's father into giving his...

Nobody Home (1919)
A young woman is so superstitious that she cannot make a move or a decision without the approval of the cards or the stars. Pursued romantically by...

Romola (1924)
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar....

Two Daughters of Eve (1912)
Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story acted conventionally, she nevertheless maligned...

Broken Ways (1913)
In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has...

Oil and Water (1913)
A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their individual styles don't mesh. The movie includes...

A Cry for Help (1912)
Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient...

Just Gold (1913)
The brothers choose between love and gold. The three brothers sought the gold regions. The fourth chose to be a stay-at-home. He sought just love,...

The Rebellion of Kitty Belle (1914)
Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pays more attention to his business interests than...

My Hero (1912)
Stern parents have ever been relentless obstacles in love's young dream, but it is perhaps quite doubtful if ever love could equal the accentuated...

Red Hicks Defies the World (1913)
Hard as nails and as strong winded as a gale in March, Red Hicks may have been a bit "chesty," but he was in perfect trim. The town depended on the...

The City Beautiful (1914)
The country boy, despite the advice of a fellow-townsman, goes to the city, where, after an encounter with a motion picture holdup man, is engaged as...

Down the Hill to Creditville (1914)
Marcus Down makes only $15 a week. He has always paid spot cash for everything, until he meets Mamie New and they are wed. Then Mamie shows him how...

An Unseen Enemy (1912)
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it...

Judith of Bethulia (1914)
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant...

Her Father's Silent Partner (1914)
After his daughter's return the jeweler attempted to break the partnership he had with the crook. His partner, however, won the girl's love, and...

The Mysterious Shot (1914)
A feud between the families of Gourd and Fork Ranches

Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916)
Gretchen Van Houck is just arriving in the USA, on a ship from Holland. She joins her father, who has already spent several years in America, where...

The New York Hat (1912)
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.

The Perfidy of Mary (1913)
Rose and her cousin Mary dwell in the land of romance, but real Romeos are scarce in this prosaic age. Yet Rose, in spite of a gay young Lothario who...

Pa Says (1913)
First Pa said Theodore was a lizzy-nizzy. He let that go, but when Pa said he was too sporty because he spent a nickel for a ticket for a voting...

The Suffragette Minstrels (1913)
Two wives of Jenksville at least did not intend their husbands should be corrupted by the arrival of these enticing ladies in town. That show should...

Centennial Summer (1946)
In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial...

The House of Discord (1913)
In her youth the mother was saved from the fatal mistake by an accident, but it caused her years of separation from child and husband. It had...

The Painted Lady (1912)
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems...

So Near, Yet So Far (1912)
It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors-- place themselves in the way of his love....

The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)
In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous...

Home, Sweet Home (1914)
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a...

Hearts of the World (1918)
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies...

Arms and the Gringo (1914)
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many...

The Bright Shawl (1923)
Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.

Boots (1919)
Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, addicted to melodramatic stories of love and...

Her Mother's Oath (1913)
The orthodox mother's indomitable will dwarfed the child's individuality, defeating the very purpose it would attain. The girl ran away with an actor...

The Reformers (1913)
Behold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all that is, is wrong. Forth to the uplift he minds...

The Widow's Kids (1913)
In spite of their oversupply of energy, their Pa-to-be just doted on the kids. The fascinating traveling salesman, who won away their fickle Ma, did...

The Lady in Black (1913)
Behold in this film the villain up to his dirty work again, but if you watch the persistent young hero carefully, you will see him gallantly rescue...

Her Old Teacher (1914)
All her life the old teacher had been smoothing over the rough places, but when the great need came in her own life all forgot her except one; that...

Papa's Baby (1913)
To be a fond and devoted parent, and to be unable to play with the heaven of your heart is indeed a cruel decree. That was the case of Papa Binks,...

By Man's Law (1913)
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her job, a young girl almost falls into the hands of...

Little Miss Rebellion (1920)
The Grand Duchess Marie Louise is the beautiful young ruler of Molvania. She is a fun-loving girl who secretly hopes that the revolutionaries who...

The Old Man (1914)
The Old Man is a 1914 film short

The Floor Above (1914)
English sleuths Grace Burton and Stephen Pryde are in love, but when Stephen inherits wealth and a title, he does not tell Grace, fearing that she...

Cigar Butts (1914)
Short film telling the story of diamond smuggling.

The Different Man (1914)
Francelia Billington and Dorothy Gish battle outlaw Ralph Lewis out on the range with assistance from ranch foreman Donald Crisp.

A Fair Rebel (1914)
Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates at West Point before the Civil War. Steve prepares...

The Newer Woman (1914)
There is, at once, quite a change in Dot and her sweetheart Robert plainly doesn't like it. After a tussle with a burglar and a cop the couple come...

Silent Sandy (1914)
Mary Jones, slavey, lonely and unloved, advertises in a matrimonial paper for a good man to marry her. Charlie Brown, village sport, answers the ad....

The Mountain Rat (1914)
A 1914 silent Western short

Their First Acquaintance (1914)
Bob Taylor was a valuable man. Talbot, his employer, told Miriam as much, showing his daughter the good round sum which his new clerk had handed him...

The Tavern of Tragedy (1914)
Maximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he abuses and who has to do all the hard work around...

The Suffragette's Battle in Nuttyville (1914)
A silent comedy farce.

The Painted Lady (1914)
Jess, a country girl, leaves home when her sister tries to boss her. Later she secures employment in a department store in the city. There she meets...

Her Mother's Necklace (1914)
Bessie's father is a widower contemplating remarriage to widow Irene Hunt but Bessie jealously objects, fearing Irene will intrude on her...

His Mother's Son (1913)
The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the little pretty things which her daughter liked....

Almost a Wild Man (1913)
Rooly, Pooly and Dooly were "picture sandwiches," but hardly shining lights, even in that capacity. Consequently they were "canned" by the...

Back to the Kitchen (1914)
The ranchman's daughter is in love with Jack of the Rancho and becomes engaged to him, but Pa comes on their lovemaking and rudely separates them....

Sands of Fate (1914)
Society man Arthur Lee is in love with society belle Helen Robinson, who is also admired by James Holden, a wealthy mine owner from the West. At her...

The Availing Prayer (1914)
William Rock, assistant cashier in a business concern, has a sick daughter. The doctor urges that she be taken immediately to another climate, and...

The Warning (1914)
Dorothy, flighty little country girl, dissatisfied with humdrum country life. longs for the gaiety of the cities. She meets a man from city on...

A Lesson in Mechanics (1914)
Ruth Wilson, daughter of a wealthy landowner, receives a visit from her country sweetheart, Joe Merriam. who is a motorboat enthusiast. Unknown to...

The Saving Grace (1914)
Molly Kite, the neglected child of a drunken father, rouses the sympathy of the minister, Mr. Shipton, who also teaches the school at Dead Tree. The...

The Better Way (1914)
Sunbeam's father is sent to prison, and on his release promises to remain honest. He secures a job as a night watchman, but his prison record being...

A Duel for Love (1914)
A Duel for Love is a 1914 dramatic short.

His Lesson (1915)
This shows the regeneration of a gang leader, who remains true to his first sweetheart after his change of fortune.

The Hope Chest (1918)
Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate manufacturer's candy shop, where she delights the...

How Hazel Got Even (1915)
Hazel, a cashier in a restaurant, is engaged to Patsy, a bus driver. Patsy earns some extra money by going in on preliminary bouts at the Athletic...

An Old-Fashioned Girl (1915)
Abigail, the pretty daughter of a village school teacher, and Jared Guild are lovers. Bertha comes from the city to visit in the little town. Her...

Minerva's Mission (1915)
Minerva comes home from school filled with the idea that she has a great mission in life. All society needs reformation. She has her maiden aunt come...

The Lost Lord Lowell (1915)
Molly, a slavey in a New York boarding house, is in love with Herbert, the butler at the house next door. They are engaged to be married. Molly is a...

The Hun Within (1918)
A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son in the wartime conflict between Germany and...

Out of Bondage (1915)
Jim McRae and his pal, Clancy, two crooks, perform many robberies and divide the loot equally. Clancy wants to marry McRae's daughter, Mary. She does...

Her Grandparents (1915)
Dorothy, the girl who presides over the notion counter of the Emporium, the general store in a country town, is the sole support of her aged...

The Mountain Girl (1915)
In a primitive log cabin buried among the rugged pines deep in the California mountains lives the Mountain Girl with her grandfather, a man of hoary...

The Little Catamount (1915)
Hattie, a moonshiner's daughter, plays with her weird dog, Fanny, and rules her father with a rod of iron. To their mountain cabin comes Neighbor...

Bred in the Bone (1915)
Harvy, the heavy, and Bella, the ingenue, of a cheap theatrical company are encumbered with an infant girl. The husband, a worthless, dissipated...

Remodeling Her Husband (1920)
After she marries Jack Valentine, Janie Wakefield discovers that her husband's reputation as a flirt is well deserved when she sees him riding in a...

Jordan Is a Hard Road (1915)
A bandit reforms himself and gives up his baby into better hands. Years later, he attempts to reunite with his daughter without revealing who he is.

Her Mother's Daughter (1915)
Marie is a village girl, very religious. Her mother, fearing some man will make her unhappy (as she had been made by a man) made her promise on her...

Little Meena's Romance (1916)
Meena Bauer is the heroine of this romance of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, who is loved by the son of a Mennonite family. Meena treats Jacob as a joke...

Peppy Polly (1919)
Polly has herself arrested and committed to a reformatory in order to investigate conditions at the institution, after the committee charged with the...

Nugget Nell (1919)
Big Hearted Jim, the sheriff, loves the tomboyish Nugget Nell ( Dorothy Gish ), who runs a hash house in the mining country, but although she has...

I'll Get Him Yet (1919)
A young woman is in love, but the man of her affections wants only her and no part of her vast wealth.

Turning the Tables (1919)
Doris Pennington is committed to an insane asylum by her aunt, who hopes to take over Doris's fortune. Upon arrival at the asylum, however, Doris...

Mary Ellen Comes to Town (1920)
A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers.

Nell Gwyn (1926)
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.

Clothes Make the Pirate (1926)
A disgruntled 18th century Bostonian who while wishing that he was a pirate, dons the clothes and play-acts the part. He is mistaken for the real...

London (1927)
A Lady adopts a runaway slum girl who resembles her own dead daughter.

Tiptoes (1927)
A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical

Battling Jane (1918)
Jane is a rootless young lady who finds an abandoned child and adopts it as her own. The decision, however, leads to great conflict with the child's...

Old Heidelberg (1915)
Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lonely child, not allowed to play with other...

The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a layoff of his fellow workers.

Night Life of New York (1925)
John Bentley hates New York City, because of an unhappy romance as a young man, but his son, Ronald, tired of living in Iowa, is determined to take...

The Adopted Brother (1913)
A Western action film about two men who escape from prison to take revenge on the person who betrayed them. Harry’s actions ensure that William...

The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.

Liberty Belles (1914)
Liberty Belles, silent comedy film from 1914 starring Dorothy Gish, Jack Pickford, and Gertrude Bambrick.

Madame Pompadour (1927)
The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.

Her Official Fathers (1917)
A 1917 film directed by Elmer Clifton, Joseph Henabery, and Dorothy Gish.

Stage Struck (1917)
A 1917 film directed by Edward Morrissey.

Wolves (1930)
An outlaw leader fakes a draw for a sick girl so he can help her escape

The Beautiful City (1925)
For their mother's sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his brother's gangster boss. Considered a lost film.

The Informer (1912)
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart...

My Baby (1912)
When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to...

Atta Boy's Last Race (1916)
Young Lois Brandon is about to have her home foreclosed if she doesn't come up with some money. She enters her horse, Atta Boy, in a big-money race,...

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a...

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette (1926)
A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s...

Betty of Greystone (1916)
After the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been the caretaker, to spend some time alone there....

The Little Yank (1917)
Sallie is a beautiful Kentucky girl who belongs to a family of Union sympathizers. Her brother is a lieutenant in the Union army, and on a visit home...

The Lady and the Mouse (1913)
The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter if he had not caught her in the heart struggle? Be...

Flying Pat (1920)
Wild flapper Patricia Van Nuys decides to become a pilot like her husband Robert, but with a difference--she wants to become the first woman to cross...

The Sisters (1914)
May and her younger sister, Carol, live in a small town. May is the more lovely of the two, but Carol is wooed by Frank, a country boy. George, a...

The Blue or the Gray (1913)
It was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern girl's heart. The gallantry of the young southern...

Those Little Flowers (1913)
Quite harmless in themselves, but when Mrs. Ronald G. Saunders saw her faithless lord purchasing the innocent blossoms, she was for a divorce right...

Victorine (1915)
Dottie gets a job in a small show as "side kick" of a famous knife thrower. The "Angel" is a nice boy who is backing the show, and who is too modest...

The Ghost in the Garret (1921)
Framed for stealing some pearls while staying at the country home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Dennison, Delsie O'Dell is banished from their...

Harvest (1953)
A young man in love with a sophisticated woman from the city is torn between his desires and those of his family. His parents wish him and his...

Lux Video Theatre (1950)
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The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series...

Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
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Lux Video Theatre (1950)
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Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live...

The Ford Theatre Hour (1948)
An anthology series based in New York City which attracted a high caliber group of actors, often Broadway stars. Stories were both drama and...

The United States Steel Hour (1953)
The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour-long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963. The television series and the...

The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
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Goodyear Television Playhouse (1951)
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The Elgin Hour (1954)
A drama series that ran every other week, attracted top notch actors and actresses, and was broadcast from New York City.

Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950)
An American television anthology drama series which offered adaptations of Pulitzer Prize winning plays, stories and novels.

The Alcoa Hour (1955)
The Alcoa Hour is an American anthology television series that was aired live on NBC from 1955 to 1957. The series was sponsored by Alcoa.

The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950)
Live dramatic series featuring top rated actors in adaptations of Broadway plays or top rated novels.

Play of the Week (1959)
This syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, et al,...