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Lillian Gish

1893 - 1993

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Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress best known for her work in movies of the silent era. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was dubbed the "First Lady of the Screen" by Vanity Fair in 1927 and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gish as the 17th-greatest female movie star of classical Hollywood cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lillian Gish is the 476th most popular actor (up from 568th in 2019), the 1,019th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,040th in 2019) and the 249th most popular American Actor.

Lillian Gish is most famous for her role in the 1915 silent film "The Birth of a Nation."

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Among actors, Lillian Gish ranks 476 out of 13,578. Before her are Jean Harlow, Jane Russell, Richard Barthelmess, Joan Collins, Bill Bixby, and Magda Schneider. After her are Chow Yun-fat, Karl Malden, Kenneth Branagh, Emmanuelle Riva, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Harold Ramis.

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Among people born in 1893, Lillian Gish ranks 33. Before her are Walter Baade, Prajadhipok, George Grosz, Damdin Sükhbaatar, Omar Bradley, and Jomo Kenyatta. After her are J. G. Strijdom, Qazi Muhammad, Juana Bormann, Miroslav Krleža, Andrés Segovia, and Lili Boulanger. Among people deceased in 1993, Lillian Gish ranks 26. Before her are Wolfgang Paul, Brandon Lee, Kōbō Abe, Hans Jonas, Albert Sabin, and Bill Bixby. After her are Léon Theremin, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Boris Christoff, Dizzy Gillespie, and Cantinflas.

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Among people born in United States, Lillian Gish ranks 1,019 out of 20,380. Before her are Richard Barthelmess (1895), George Eastman (1854), Babe Ruth (1895), Bill Bixby (1934), William Hanna (1910), and Dorothea Lange (1895). After her are Hulk Hogan (1953), Karl Malden (1912), Bill Cosby (1937), Wes Craven (1939), Harold Ramis (1944), and Sam Peckinpah (1925).

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Among actors born in United States, Lillian Gish ranks 249. Before her are Mel Ferrer (1917), Pat Morita (1932), Jean Harlow (1911), Jane Russell (1921), Richard Barthelmess (1895), and Bill Bixby (1934). After her are Karl Malden (1912), Harold Ramis (1944), Walter Matthau (1920), Powers Boothe (1948), Sondra Locke (1944), and Linda Hamilton (1956).

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