Lil Dagover
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
as Jane
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
as (uncredited)
The Strange Countess (1961)
as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
End of the Game (1975)
as Gastmann's Mother
Destiny (1921)
as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
Toteninsel (1921)
Actor
The Bird Seller (1935)
as Die Kurfürstin
Monte Cristo (1929)
as Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe (1955)
as Alice Lechaudier
Die Räuber (1940)
Actor
The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
as Lottie Corlaix
Vienna 1910 (1943)
as Maria Anschütz
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea (1919)
as Sun Priestess Naela
Fridericus (1937)
as Marquise de Pompadour
The Fugitive from Chicago (1934)
as Eveline
Phantom (1922)
as Marie Starke
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt (1973)
as Self
100 Years of the UFA (2017)
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Harakiri (1919)
as O-Take-San
Trees die upright (1958)
as Großmutter
Boycott (1930)
as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
Ich heirate meine Frau (1934)
as Lisa Behmer
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin (1925)
as Toni
Das Geheimnis von Bombay (1921)
as Gabriela Farnese/Concha
Der Volontär (1918)
Actor
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants (1934)
as Manon Cavallini
The Standard (1977)
as Erzherzogin
Die Teufelsbraut (1977)
Actor
Der Veilchenfresser (1926)
as Melitta von Arthof
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine (1953)
as Gräfin Waldenberg
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee (1952)
as Lamberta
The Case of Colonel Redl (1931)
as Vera Nikolayevna
Siedlung Arkadien (1967)
as Frau Assmann
The Maelstrom of Paris (1928)
Actor
Kolibri (1971)
as Anna Maria Hansen
Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979)
as Helene
The Great Desire (1930)
as Herself
Married by the Stork (1932)
as Thea Roland
Die Rache ist mein (1919)
Actor
Paradies der alten Damen (1971)
as Leonore Feller
The White Devil (1930)
as Nelidowa
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius (1940)
as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
There is a woman who will never forget you (1930)
as Tilly Ferrantes
The Little Residence (1942)
as Herzogin von Lauffenburg
Das Blut der Ahnen (1920)
Actor
Der Mann von draußen (1961)
as Mrs.Gillis
Madame Bluebeard (1931)
as Frau Erika Dankwarth
The Stars Shine (1938)
as Gast
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil (1959)
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Bettler GmbH (1919)
Actor
Der Anwalt des Herzens (1927)
as June Orchard
Reisender ohne Gepäck (1963)
as Herzogin
Only a Dancing Girl (1926)
as Marie Berner
The Chronicles of the Gray House (1925)
as Bärbe
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe (1949)
as Florentine Alvensleben
Congress Dances (1931)
as Komtesse
Die Kwannon von Okadera (1920)
as Kwannon von Okadera
Professor Sound und die Pille (1971)
as Seine Frau
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer (1957)
as Contessa Celestina Morini
Es kommt ein Tag (1950)
as Madame Mombour
Barbarina, the King's Dancer (1932)
as Barberina Campanini
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe (1956)
as Kaiserin Elisabeth
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen (1938)
as Maja
Spiritismus (1919)
Actor
Streit um den Knaben Jo (1939)
as Leonine Brackwieser
His Wife, the Unknown (1923)
as Eva
Clown Charly (1918)
Actor
Va Banque (1930)
as Harriet Williams
Die Barrings (1955)
as Thilde von Barring
La Grande Passion (1928)
as Sonia de Blich
The Mayor of Zalamea (1920)
as Isabel
Die Prinzessin Suwarin (1923)
as Tina Bermonte
Tartuffe (1926)
as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
Triad (1938)
as Cornelia Contarini
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee (1955)
as Baronin Hermine von Velden
Hubertus Castle (1954)
as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
Detours to Happiness (1939)
as Hanna Bracht
The Higher Command (1935)
as Madame Martin
Hotel Royal (1969)
as Maharani von Dungapur
Elisabeth of Austria (1931)
as Elisabeth von Österreich
Lady Windermeres Fächer (1935)
as Mrs. Erlynne
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt (1920)
as Malatti
Die Frau im Himmel (1920)
as Tatjana
The Final Chord (1936)
as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel (1921)
as Malatti
The Girl Irene (1936)
as Jennifer Lawrence
Glückspilze (1971)
Actor
The Death in the Greenstreet (1921)
Actor
Es flüstert die Nacht (1929)
Actor
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil (1920)
as Malatti
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil (1959)
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary (1948)
as Margot von Korff
Bismarck (1940)
as Eugénie
The Pedestrian (1973)
as Frau Eschenlohr
Rosen im Herbst (1955)
as Mutter Briest
Old Song (1930)
as Baronin Eggedy
Lösegeld für Mylady (1967)
as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
Love Is Blind (1926)
Actor
The Second Kiss (1930)
as Empress Marie Theresa
Meine 16 Söhne (1956)
as Frau Senator Giselius
Chased by the Devil (1950)
as Frau Dakar
His English Wife (1927)
as Cathleen Paget
Der Tänzer (1919)
as Andreas Mother
Königliche Hoheit (1953)
as Gräfin Löwenjoul
Rätsel um Beate (1938)
as Beate Kaiserling
Memento Mori (1975)
as Charmian Colston
Die Ehe (1929)
Actor
Musik in Salzburg (1944)
as Ursula Sanden
Unwiederbringlich (1968)
as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
Hungarian Rhapsody (1928)
as Camilla
Two Brothers (1926)
as Esther
Tiefland (1923)
as Martha
August der Starke (1936)
as Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
The Secret Courier (1928)
as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
Orientexpress (1927)
as Beate von Morton
The Kreutzer Sonata (1937)
as Jelaina Posdnyschew
Luise Millerin (1922)
Actor
Phantome des Lebens (1919)
Actor
The Ring of the Empress (1930)
as Catherine the Great
Comedy of the Heart (1924)
as Gerda Werska
Johannisnacht (1933)
as Lisa Lers