Ghillie Dhu Ghillie Dhu In Scottish folklore the Ghillie Dhu or Gille Dubh () was a solitary male fairy. He was kindly and reticent yet sometimes wild in character but had a gentle devotion to children. Dark haired and clothed in leaves and moss, he lived in a birch wood within the Gairloch and Loch a Druing area of the north-west highlands of Scotland. "Ghillie" is an English equivalent of the Scottish Gaelic word ; Edward Dwelly, a Scottish lexicographer, lists "gille" as a "lad", "youth" or "boy" with "dubh" translating as "dark" or "dark-haired". According to folklorist and scholar Katharine Briggs
Jean Gillie Later, however, it has gained an appreciative new audience among film noir aficionados after being included in Volume 4 of the Warner Bros. issued DVD series "Film Noir Classics Collection", released in the US in 2007, when it was described in "Entertainment Weekly" as a "weird but transfixing tale". In 1947 Gillie appeared in the Gregory Peck vehicle "The Macomber Affair", which turned out to be her final film. Her marriage to Bernhard had quickly run into trouble, and the couple divorced. Gillie returned to Britain in 1948 but had no time to revive her British career, as she died