Lil Dagover
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 29, 1887
- Died
- January 23, 1980 (aged 92)
- Birthplace
- Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
Biography
A prominent German film actress born on 30 September 1887 at Madiven, Java, the daughter of a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch authorities. Sent at the age of ten to Baden-Baden to study, she later entered the cinema thanks to her marriage in 1917 to the actor Fritz Dagover who was 25 years her senior. They divorced in 1919 but not before he had introduced her to director Robert Wiene and other notables of German cinema. She made her screen debut in Fritz Lang's Harakiri (1919). Immediately after she appeared in Wiene's classic expressionist film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (aka The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)). Apart from three trips -- one to Sweden in 1927, another to France in 1928-9 and one to Hollywood in 1931 -- most of Lil Dagover's career and fate was linked to that of the German cinema, where her role was usually that of the frail, menaced heroine. She continued to star in a great number of films during the Nazi era. Among her best performances were her roles in Congress Dances (1931), in Gerhard Lamprecht's The Higher Command (1935) and in Veit Harlan's The Kreutzer Sonata (1937). She also acted in the Deutsches Theatre Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, at forces shows and at war theaters. At one time, she was reported to have been a close friend of Adolf Hitler. In 1944, she received the War Merits Cross. Dagover continued her career in post-war Germany, playing many supporting parts until the late 1970s.
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Filmography
100 Years of the UFA
Movie · as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Otto – The Series
TV · as Verschiedene · 13 eps
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Movie · as Helene
The Standard
Movie · as Erzherzogin
Die Teufelsbraut
Movie
Memento Mori
Movie · as Charmian Colston
End of the Game
Movie · as Gastmann's Mother
The Pedestrian
Movie · as Frau Eschenlohr
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Movie · as Self
Professor Sound und die Pille
Movie · as Seine Frau
Glückspilze
Movie
Paradies der alten Damen
Movie · as Leonore Feller
Kolibri
Movie · as Anna Maria Hansen
Scene of the Crime
TV · as Mutter Koenen · 1 ep
Hotel Royal
Movie · as Maharani von Dungapur
Unwiederbringlich
Movie · as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
Seniorenclub
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Lösegeld für Mylady
Movie · as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
Siedlung Arkadien
Movie · as Frau Assmann
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Reisender ohne Gepäck
Movie · as Herzogin
Blick zurück im Film
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Strange Countess
Movie · as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
Der Mann von draußen
Movie · as Mrs.Gillis
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
Movie · as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
Movie · as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Trees die upright
Movie · as Großmutter
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
Movie · as Contessa Celestina Morini
Los ojos del siglo (Volumen I)
Movie · as Ella misma (material de archivo)
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
Movie · as Kaiserin Elisabeth
Meine 16 Söhne
Movie · as Frau Senator Giselius
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
Movie · as Baronin Hermine von Velden
Rosen im Herbst
Movie · as Mutter Briest
Die Barrings
Movie · as Thilde von Barring
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
Movie · as Alice Lechaudier
Hubertus Castle
Movie · as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
Königliche Hoheit
Movie · as Gräfin Löwenjoul
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
Movie · as Gräfin Waldenberg
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
Movie · as Lamberta
German Film Award
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Es kommt ein Tag
Movie · as Madame Mombour
Chased by the Devil
Movie · as Frau Dakar
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
Movie · as Florentine Alvensleben
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
Movie · as Margot von Korff
Bambi
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Musik in Salzburg
Movie · as Ursula Sanden
Vienna 1910
Movie · as Maria Anschütz
The Little Residence
Movie · as Herzogin von Lauffenburg
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
Movie · as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Bismarck
Movie · as Eugénie
Die Räuber
Movie
Detours to Happiness
Movie · as Hanna Bracht
Streit um den Knaben Jo
Movie · as Leonine Brackwieser
Rätsel um Beate
Movie · as Beate Kaiserling
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
Movie · as Maja
Triad
Movie · as Cornelia Contarini
The Stars Shine
Movie · as Gast
Fridericus
Movie · as Marquise de Pompadour
The Kreutzer Sonata
Movie · as Jelaina Posdnyschew
The Final Chord
Movie · as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
The Girl Irene
Movie · as Jennifer Lawrence
August der Starke
Movie · as Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
Lady Windermeres Fächer
Movie · as Mrs. Erlynne
The Higher Command
Movie · as Madame Martin
The Bird Seller
Movie · as Die Kurfürstin
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
Movie · as Manon Cavallini
Ich heirate meine Frau
Movie · as Lisa Behmer
The Fugitive from Chicago
Movie · as Eveline
Johannisnacht
Movie · as Lisa Lers
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Movie · as Lottie Corlaix
Married by the Stork
Movie · as Thea Roland
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
Movie · as Barberina Campanini
Congress Dances
Movie · as Komtesse
Elisabeth of Austria
Movie · as Elisabeth von Österreich
Madame Bluebeard
Movie · as Frau Erika Dankwarth
The Case of Colonel Redl
Movie · as Vera Nikolayevna
Boycott
Movie · as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
The White Devil
Movie · as Nelidowa
Old Song
Movie · as Baronin Eggedy
There is a woman who will never forget you
Movie · as Tilly Ferrantes
The Great Desire
Movie · as Herself
The Second Kiss
Movie · as Empress Marie Theresa
The Ring of the Empress
Movie · as Catherine the Great
Va Banque
Movie · as Harriet Williams
Es flüstert die Nacht
Movie
Monte Cristo
Movie · as Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
Die Ehe
Movie
La Grande Passion
Movie · as Sonia de Blich
Hungarian Rhapsody
Movie · as Camilla
The Secret Courier
Movie · as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
The Maelstrom of Paris
Movie
Der Anwalt des Herzens
Movie · as June Orchard
Orientexpress
Movie · as Beate von Morton
His English Wife
Movie · as Cathleen Paget
Tartuffe
Movie · as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
Love Is Blind
Movie
Two Brothers
Movie · as Esther
Der Veilchenfresser
Movie · as Melitta von Arthof
Only a Dancing Girl
Movie · as Marie Berner
The Chronicles of the Gray House
Movie · as Bärbe
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
Movie · as Toni
Comedy of the Heart
Movie · as Gerda Werska
Tiefland
Movie · as Martha
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
Movie · as Tina Bermonte
His Wife, the Unknown
Movie · as Eva
Phantom
Movie · as Marie Starke
Luise Millerin
Movie
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Movie · as (uncredited)
Destiny
Movie · as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
The Death in the Greenstreet
Movie
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
Movie · as Malatti
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
Movie · as Gabriela Farnese/Concha
Toteninsel
Movie
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Movie · as Jane
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
Movie · as Malatti
The Mayor of Zalamea
Movie · as Isabel
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
Movie · as Malatti
Die Kwannon von Okadera
Movie · as Kwannon von Okadera
Das Blut der Ahnen
Movie
Die Frau im Himmel
Movie · as Tatjana
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
Movie · as Sun Priestess Naela
Spiritismus
Movie
Phantome des Lebens
Movie
Harakiri
Movie · as O-Take-San
The Dancer
Movie · as Andreas Mother
Die Rache ist mein
Movie
Bettler GmbH
Movie
Clown Charly
Movie
Der Volontär
Movie