Date of birth: 1898-03-09
Place of birth: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Dorothy Elizabeth Gish

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.
1913-11-17
Caroline Spankhurst and her suffragette brigade conclude to stop at nothing, so in their dauntless e

1963-12-12
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he

1988-07-11
Called "the first lady of the silent screen," Lillian Gish was the archetypal silent film heroine —

1921-12-28
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as siste

1922-07-29
Country girl Jolanda has lost her boyfriend, Nathaniel Huggins, to a "flapper" from the city. Joland

1919-08-24
A young woman is so superstitious that she cannot make a move or a decision without the approval of

1924-12-06
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as

1912-09-19
Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story

1913-03-08
In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After se

1913-02-10
A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their i

1912-12-23
Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and tr
1913-05-24
The brothers choose between love and gold. The three brothers sought the gold regions. The fourth ch

1914-06-14
Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pay
1912-12-12
Stern parents have ever been relentless obstacles in love's young dream, but it is perhaps quite dou
1913-06-09
Hard as nails and as strong winded as a gale in March, Red Hicks may have been a bit "chesty," but h
1914-07-12
The country boy, despite the advice of a fellow-townsman, goes to the city, where, after an encounte
1914-09-18
Marcus Down makes only $15 a week. He has always paid spot cash for everything, until he meets Mamie

1912-09-09
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert s

1914-03-08
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Je
1914-02-23
After his daughter's return the jeweler attempted to break the partnership he had with the crook. Hi
1914-04-04
A feud between the families of Gourd and Fork Ranches

1916-09-03
Gretchen Van Houck is just arriving in the USA, on a ship from Holland. She joins her father, who ha

1912-12-05
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a styli
1913-04-05
Rose and her cousin Mary dwell in the land of romance, but real Romeos are scarce in this prosaic ag
1913-07-21
First Pa said Theodore was a lizzy-nizzy. He let that go, but when Pa said he was too sporty because
1913-08-18
Two wives of Jenksville at least did not intend their husbands should be corrupted by the arrival of

1946-07-10
In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to prepar

1913-12-13
In her youth the mother was saved from the fatal mistake by an accident, but it caused her years of

1912-10-24
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice

1912-09-29
It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles— namely shyness, and the temerity of other suito

1912-12-16
In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young b

1914-05-16
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mot

1918-03-11
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is s

1914-06-28
Romantic political drama set in Mexico that costarred Dorothy Gish and Wallace Reid.

1923-01-01
Boy Leyton is second mate on board the Lady Spray, the ship on which his father is Captain Leyton. B

1944-11-02
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts

1923-04-22
Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.

1919-02-16
Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, ad
1913-06-28
The orthodox mother's indomitable will dwarfed the child's individuality, defeating the very purpose

1913-07-06
Behold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all that
1913-08-04
In spite of their oversupply of energy, their Pa-to-be just doted on the kids. The fascinating trave
1913-09-11
Behold in this film the villain up to his dirty work again, but if you watch the persistent young he
1914-02-16
All her life the old teacher had been smoothing over the rough places, but when the great need came
1913-08-14
To be a fond and devoted parent, and to be unable to play with the heaven of your heart is indeed a
1913-11-22
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her j

1920-09-19
The Grand Duchess Marie Louise is the beautiful young ruler of Molvania. She is a fun-loving girl wh
1914-04-17
The Old Man is a 1914 film short
1914-04-01
English sleuths Grace Burton and Stephen Pryde are in love, but when Stephen inherits wealth and a t
1914-04-28
Short film telling the story of diamond smuggling.
1914-05-05
Francelia Billington and Dorothy Gish battle outlaw Ralph Lewis out on the range with assistance fro

1914-05-21
Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates a
1914-06-02
There is, at once, quite a change in Dot and her sweetheart Robert plainly doesn't like it. After a
1914-05-28
A story of duplicity, ambition and misunderstandings when four peoples lives become intertwined in a
1914-05-30
Mary Jones, slavey, lonely and unloved, advertises in a matrimonial paper for a good man to marry he

1914-05-01
A 1914 silent Western short
1914-06-16
Bob Taylor was a valuable man. Talbot, his employer, told Miriam as much, showing his daughter the g
1914-08-09
Maximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he ab
1914-06-30
A silent comedy farce.
1914-07-19
Jess, a country girl, leaves home when her sister tries to boss her. Later she secures employment in
1914-08-16
Bessie's father is a widower contemplating remarriage to widow Irene Hunt but Bessie jealously objec
1913-05-31
The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the
1913-06-19
Rooly, Pooly and Dooly were "picture sandwiches," but hardly shining lights, even in that capacity.
1914-10-16
The ranchman's daughter is in love with Jack of the Rancho and becomes engaged to him, but Pa comes
1914-10-11
Society man Arthur Lee is in love with society belle Helen Robinson, who is also admired by James Ho
1914-10-30
William Rock, assistant cashier in a business concern, has a sick daughter. The doctor urges that sh
1914-10-13
Dorothy, flighty little country girl, dissatisfied with humdrum country life. longs for the gaiety o
1914-08-25
A country boarding house story
1914-08-21
Ruth Wilson, daughter of a wealthy landowner, receives a visit from her country sweetheart, Joe Merr
1914-11-22
Molly Kite, the neglected child of a drunken father, rouses the sympathy of the minister, Mr. Shipto
1914-12-22
Sunbeam's father is sent to prison, and on his release promises to remain honest. He secures a job a
1914-01-01
A Duel for Love is a 1914 dramatic short.
1915-01-05
This shows the regeneration of a gang leader, who remains true to his first sweetheart after his cha

1918-12-29
Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate manuf
1915-02-14
Hazel, a cashier in a restaurant, is engaged to Patsy, a bus driver. Patsy earns some extra money by
1915-02-02
Abigail, the pretty daughter of a village school teacher, and Jared Guild are lovers. Bertha comes f
1915-03-07
Minerva comes home from school filled with the idea that she has a great mission in life. All societ
1915-02-21
Molly, a slavey in a New York boarding house, is in love with Herbert, the butler at the house next

1918-09-08
A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son i
1915-05-30
Jim McRae and his pal, Clancy, two crooks, perform many robberies and divide the loot equally. Clanc
1915-05-04
Dorothy, the girl who presides over the notion counter of the Emporium, the general store in a count
1915-07-11
In a primitive log cabin buried among the rugged pines deep in the California mountains lives the Mo
1915-07-23
Hattie, a moonshiner's daughter, plays with her weird dog, Fanny, and rules her father with a rod of
1915-10-07
Harvy, the heavy, and Bella, the ingenue, of a cheap theatrical company are encumbered with an infan

1920-06-13
After she marries Jack Valentine, Janie Wakefield discovers that her husband's reputation as a flirt
1915-12-19
A bandit reforms himself and gives up his baby into better hands. Years later, he attempts to reunit
1915-12-08
Marie is a village girl, very religious. Her mother, fearing some man will make her unhappy (as she

1916-04-09
Meena Bauer is the heroine of this romance of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, who is loved by the son of

1919-04-06
Polly has herself arrested and committed to a reformatory in order to investigate conditions at the

1919-07-27
Big Hearted Jim, the sheriff, loves the tomboyish Nugget Nell ( Dorothy Gish ), who runs a hash hous

1919-05-25
A young woman is in love, but the man of her affections wants only her and no part of her vast wealt

1919-11-02
Doris Pennington is committed to an insane asylum by her aunt, who hopes to take over Doris's fortun

1920-03-21
A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers.

1926-01-02
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's hom

1926-03-15
A disgruntled 18th century Bostonian who while wishing that he was a pirate, dons the clothes and pl

1927-06-20
A Lady adopts a runaway slum girl who resembles her own dead daughter.

1927-06-19
A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical

1918-09-28
Jane is a rootless young lady who finds an abandoned child and adopts it as her own. The decision, h

1915-11-14
Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lo

1951-08-02
A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a layoff of hi

1925-08-02
John Bentley hates New York City, because of an unhappy romance as a young man, but his son, Ronald,

1913-08-29
A Western action film about two men who escape from prison to take revenge on the person who betraye

1912-10-31
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated
1914-05-13
Liberty Belles, silent comedy film from 1914 starring Dorothy Gish, Jack Pickford, and Gertrude Bamb

1927-08-01
The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.

1917-04-07
A 1917 film directed by Elmer Clifton, Joseph Henabery, and Dorothy Gish.
1917-02-25
A 1917 film directed by Edward Morrissey.

1930-05-19
An outlaw leader fakes a draw for a sick girl so he can help her escape

1925-10-25
For their mother's sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his brothe

1912-11-21
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his broth

1912-11-14
When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the onl

1916-11-04
Young Lois Brandon is about to have her home foreclosed if she doesn't come up with some money. She

1925-12-25
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman of

1926-01-01
A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. A

1916-02-20
After the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been

1917-01-14
Sallie is a beautiful Kentucky girl who belongs to a family of Union sympathizers. Her brother is a

1913-04-26
The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter if

1920-11-11
Wild flapper Patricia Van Nuys decides to become a pilot like her husband Robert, but with a differe

1914-11-29
May and her younger sister, Carol, live in a small town. May is the more lovely of the two, but Caro
1913-11-29
It was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern gir
1913-07-31
Quite harmless in themselves, but when Mrs. Ronald G. Saunders saw her faithless lord purchasing the

1915-08-01
Dottie gets a job in a small show as "side kick" of a famous knife thrower. The "Angel" is a nice bo

1921-02-01
Framed for stealing some pearls while staying at the country home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs

1953-11-23
A young man in love with a sophisticated woman from the city is torn between his desires and those o
1916-07-16

1916-12-02
Mountaineer Pap Clayton has promised his daughter Sairy Ann (Dorothy Gish) to his cousin Jed Martin,

1916-05-15
Susan, a pretty society girl, bored with her lot in life, reads and decides to use her time and mone