ACTOR

Dorothy Gish

1898 - 1968

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Dorothy Elizabeth Gish (March 11, 1898 – June 4, 1968) was an American stage and screen actress. 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 Theater Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothy Gish has received more than 682,753 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Dorothy Gish is the 4,102nd most popular actor (down from 3,247th in 2019), the 6,077th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,048th in 2019) and the 1,844th most popular American Actor.

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  • 680k

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  • 48.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dorothy Gish ranks 4,102 out of 13,578. Before her are Zhao Wei, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Tang Wei, Loretta Swit, Lee Aaker, and Sig Ruman. After her are Hu Die, Zooey Deschanel, Steven Williams, Tantoo Cardinal, Raaj Kumar, and Wolf Kahler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Dorothy Gish ranks 193. Before her are Nazik al-Abid, Norman Vincent Peale, Félix Sesúmaga, Renée Adorée, Agnes Ayres, and Mikhail Artamonov. After her are Alfred Schmidt, M. Ageyev, Boughera El Ouafi, Harry Patch, Ariel Durant, and Philippe Hériat. Among people deceased in 1968, Dorothy Gish ranks 161. Before her are Ruth St. Denis, Harry Stenqvist, Jess Willard, Mervyn Peake, Norman Brookes, and Enoch L. Johnson. After her are Antonio Pietrangeli, Mike Spence, Marion Lorne, Valentine Hugo, Franchot Tone, and Elly Ney.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothy Gish ranks 6,077 out of 20,380. Before her are Mickey Kuhn (1932), Pruitt Taylor Vince (1960), Loretta Swit (1937), Lee Aaker (1943), Tommy Gunn (1967), and Amy Lowell (1874). After her are Tommy Flanagan (1930), Zooey Deschanel (1980), E. E. Smith (1890), Donald Johanson (1943), Rene Bond (1950), and Steven Williams (1949).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Dorothy Gish ranks 1,844. Before her are Judge Reinhold (1957), Allen Garfield (1939), Mickey Kuhn (1932), Pruitt Taylor Vince (1960), Loretta Swit (1937), and Lee Aaker (1943). After her are Zooey Deschanel (1980), Steven Williams (1949), Tom Lister Jr. (1958), Chuck Connors (1921), Scott Patterson (1958), and Barry Newman (1938).

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Television and Movie Roles

Orphans of the Storm
Louise Girard
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
Dec 28o 19216.827 / 10
An Unseen Enemy
Youngest Sister
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 is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall.
Sep 9o 19125.603 / 10
Gretchen the Greenhorn
Gretchen Van Houck
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 he owns an engraving business. In the tenement community where the Van Houcks live, there are residents of many nationalities. Gretchen soon becomes close friends with Pietro, a popular resident, and she also takes an interest in the widow Garrity and her children. Another resident, Rogers, is more mysterious. One day Rogers tells Mr. Van Houck that he could help him get a job printing money for the government. Van Houck eagerly agrees to try, but when he finds out what Rogers is really doing, he is placed in a painful dilemma.
Sep 3o 19165.9 / 10