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