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