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
Monte Cristo (1929)
as Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
as Jane
The Fugitive from Chicago (1934)
as Eveline
Vienna 1910 (1943)
as Maria Anschütz
The Bird Seller (1935)
as Die Kurfürstin
Destiny (1921)
as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
as (uncredited)
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe (1955)
as Alice Lechaudier
Boycott (1930)
as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
Trees die upright (1958)
as Großmutter
Der Veilchenfresser (1926)
as Melitta von Arthof
Siedlung Arkadien (1967)
as Frau Assmann
Kolibri (1971)
as Anna Maria Hansen
The White Devil (1930)
as Nelidowa
Fridericus (1937)
as Marquise de Pompadour
Die Teufelsbraut (1977)
Actor
The Girl Irene (1936)
as Jennifer Lawrence
The Little Residence (1942)
as Herzogin von Lauffenburg
Der Mann von draußen (1961)
as Mrs.Gillis
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin (1925)
as Toni
Madame Bluebeard (1931)
as Frau Erika Dankwarth
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen (1938)
as Maja
Harakiri (1919)
as O-Take-San
Das Geheimnis von Bombay (1921)
as Gabriela Farnese/Concha
End of the Game (1978)
as Gastmann's Mother
Die Kwannon von Okadera (1920)
as Kwannon von Okadera
Phantom (1922)
as Marie Starke
The Strange Countess (1961)
as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
as Lottie Corlaix
Ich heirate meine Frau (1934)
as Lisa Behmer
Only a Dancing Girl (1926)
as Marie Berner
Die Prinzessin Suwarin (1923)
as Tina Bermonte
Der Volontär (1918)
Actor
Bettler GmbH (1919)
Actor
Die Rache ist mein (1919)
Actor
Detours to Happiness (1939)
as Hanna Bracht
Reisender ohne Gepäck (1963)
as Herzogin
Die Räuber (1940)
Actor
Lady Windermeres Fächer (1935)
as Mrs. Erlynne
Old Song (1930)
as Baronin Eggedy
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee (1952)
as Lamberta
Paradies der alten Damen (1971)
as Leonore Feller
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil (1959)
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea (1919)
as Sun Priestess Naela
Va Banque (1930)
as Harriet Williams
Das Blut der Ahnen (1920)
Actor
Elisabeth of Austria (1931)
as Elisabeth von Österreich
Congress Dances (1931)
as Komtesse
Tartuffe (1926)
as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
Es kommt ein Tag (1950)
as Madame Mombour
The Case of Colonel Redl (1931)
as Vera Nikolayevna
Clown Charly (1918)
Actor
Spiritismus (1919)
Actor
Barbarina, the King's Dancer (1932)
as Barberina Campanini
La Grande Passion (1928)
as Sonia de Blich
The Pedestrian (1973)
as Frau Eschenlohr
August der Starke (1936)
as Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
Meine 16 Söhne (1956)
as Frau Senator Giselius
The Secret Courier (1928)
as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee (1955)
as Baronin Hermine von Velden
The Standard (1977)
as Erzherzogin
Die Barrings (1955)
as Thilde von Barring
Hubertus Castle (1954)
as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
100 Years of the UFA (2017)
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius (1940)
as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Chased by the Devil (1950)
as Frau Dakar
Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979)
as Helene
Bismarck (1940)
as Eugénie
Der Tänzer (1919)
as Andreas Mother
Der Anwalt des Herzens (1927)
as June Orchard
Hotel Royal (1969)
as Maharani von Dungapur
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine (1953)
as Gräfin Waldenberg
The Ring of the Empress (1930)
as Catherine the Great
His English Wife (1927)
as Cathleen Paget
Die Frau im Himmel (1920)
as Tatjana
The Final Chord (1936)
as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
The Great Passion (1930)
as Herself
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil (1959)
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Hungarian Rhapsody (1928)
as Camilla
The Chronicles of the Gray House (1925)
as Bärbe
Two Brothers (1926)
as Esther
Professor Sound und die Pille (1971)
as Seine Frau
Phantome des Lebens (1919)
Actor
Glückspilze (1971)
Actor
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt (1973)
as Self
Königliche Hoheit (1953)
as Gräfin Löwenjoul
Rosen im Herbst (1955)
as Mutter Briest
Comedy of the Heart (1924)
as Gerda Werska
The Maelstrom of Paris (1928)
Actor
The Stars Shine (1938)
as Gast
Die Ehe (1929)
Actor
Musik in Salzburg (1944)
as Ursula Sanden
The Mayor of Zalamea (1920)
as Isabel
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt (1920)
as Malatti
The Higher Command (1935)
as Madame Martin
Johannisnacht (1933)
as Lisa Lers
His Wife, the Unknown (1923)
as Eva
Rätsel um Beate (1938)
as Beate Kaiserling
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary (1948)
as Margot von Korff
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe (1956)
as Kaiserin Elisabeth
Lösegeld für Mylady (1967)
as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
Streit um den Knaben Jo (1939)
as Leonine Brackwieser
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer (1957)
as Contessa Celestina Morini
Unwiederbringlich (1968)
as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants (1934)
as Manon Cavallini
Orientexpress (1927)
as Beate von Morton
The Death in the Greenstreet (1921)
Actor
The Second Kiss (1930)
as Empress Marie Theresa
Memento Mori (1975)
as Charmian Colston
The Kreutzer Sonata (1937)
as Jelaina Posdnyschew
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe (1949)
as Florentine Alvensleben
Luise Millerin (1922)
Actor
Married by the Stork (1932)
as Thea Roland
Es flüstert die Nacht (1929)
Actor
Love Is Blind (1926)
Actor
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel (1921)
as Malatti
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil (1920)
as Malatti
Tiefland (1923)
as Martha
Triad (1938)
as Cornelia Contarini
There is a woman who will never forget you (1930)
as Tilly Ferrantes
Toteninsel (1921)
Actor