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