Lil Dagover

Birthday:
09/29/1887
Place of birth:
Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]:
Biography:
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.

Credits

100 Jahre UFA - Maschinenraum des deutschen Films (2017)
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (1979)
as Helene
Der Richter und sein Henker (1978)
as Gastmann's Mother
Die Standarte (1977)
as Erzherzogin
Die Teufelsbraut (1977)
Memento Mori (1975)
as Charmian Colston
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt (1973)
as Self
Der Fußgänger (1973)
as Frau Eschenlohr
Glückspilze (1971)
Kolibri (1971)
as Anna Maria Hansen
Paradies der alten Damen (1971)
as Leonore Feller
Professor Sound und die Pille (1971)
as Seine Frau
Hotel Royal (1969)
as Maharani von Dungapur
Unwiederbringlich (1968)
as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
Lösegeld für Mylady (1967)
as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
Siedlung Arkadien (1967)
as Frau Assmann
Reisender ohne Gepäck (1963)
as Herzogin
Die seltsame Gräfin (1961)
as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
Der Mann von draußen (1961)
as Mrs.Gillis
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil (1959)
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil (1959)
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Bäume sterben aufrecht (1958)
as Großmutter
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer (1957)
as Contessa Celestina Morini
Meine 16 Söhne (1956)
as Frau Senator Giselius
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe (1956)
as Kaiserin Elisabeth
Die Barrings (1955)
as Thilde von Barring
Rosen im Herbst (1955)
as Mutter Briest
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee (1955)
as Baronin Hermine von Velden
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe (1955)
as Alice Lechaudier
Schloß Hubertus (1954)
as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
Königliche Hoheit (1953)
as Gräfin Löwenjoul
Rote Rosen, rote Lippen, roter Wein (1953)
as Gräfin Waldenberg
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee (1952)
as Lamberta
Vom Teufel gejagt (1950)
as Frau Dakar
Es kommt ein Tag (1950)
as Madame Mombour
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe (1949)
as Florentine Alvensleben
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary (1948)
as Margot von Korff
Musik in Salzburg (1944)
as Ursula Sanden
Wien 1910 (1943)
as Maria Anschütz
Kleine Residenz (1942)
as Herzogin von Lauffenburg
Bismarck (1940)
as Eugénie
Friedrich Schiller – Der Triumph eines Genies (1940)
as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Die Räuber (1940)
Streit um den Knaben Jo (1939)
as Leonine Brackwieser
Umwege zum Glück (1939)
as Hanna Bracht
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen (1938)
as Maja
Dreiklang (1938)
as Cornelia Contarini
Es leuchten die Sterne (1938)
as Gast
Rätsel um Beate (1938)
as Beate Kaiserling
Die Kreutzersonate (1937)
as Jelaina Posdnyschew
Fridericus (1937)
as Marquise de Pompadour
Schlußakkord (1936)
as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
August der Starke (1936)
as Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
Das Mädchen Irene (1936)
as Jennifer Lawrence
Der höhere Befehl (1935)
as Madame Martin
Lady Windermeres Fächer (1935)
as Mrs. Erlynne
Der Vogelhändler (1935)
as Die Kurfürstin
Ich heirate meine Frau (1934)
as Lisa Behmer
Eine Frau die weiß, was sie will (1934)
as Manon Cavallini
Der Flüchtling aus Chicago (1934)
as Eveline
Johannisnacht (1933)
as Lisa Lers
Das Abenteuer der Thea Roland (1932)
as Thea Roland
Die Tänzerin von Sanssouci (1932)
as Barberina Campanini
The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
as Lottie Corlaix
Das Schicksal einer schönen Frau (1931)
as Frau Erika Dankwarth
Der Kongress tanzt (1931)
as Komtesse
Elisabeth von Österreich (1931)
as Elisabeth von Österreich
Der Fall des Generalstabs-Oberst Redl (1931)
as Vera Nikolayevna
Boykott (1930)
as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
Das alte Lied (1930)
as Baronin Eggedy
Va Banque (1930)
as Harriet Williams
Die große Sehnsucht (1930)
as Herself
The Second Kiss (1930)
as Empress Marie Theresa
Es gibt eine Frau, die dich niemals vergißt (1930)
as Tilly Ferrantes
Der weiße Teufel (1930)
as Nelidowa
Spielereien einer Kaiserin (1930)
as Catherine the Great
Es flüstert die Nacht (1929)
Monte Cristo (1929)
as Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
Die Ehe (1929)
La Grande Passion (1928)
as Sonia de Blich
Der geheime Kurier (1928)
as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
Le Tourbillon de Paris (1928)
Ungarische Rhapsodie (1928)
as Camilla
Orientexpress (1927)
as Beate von Morton
Der Anwalt des Herzens (1927)
as June Orchard
Hans engelska fru (1927)
as Cathleen Paget
Nur eine Tänzerin (1926)
as Marie Berner
Der Veilchenfresser (1926)
as Melitta von Arthof
Liebe macht blind (1926)
Die Brüder Schellenberg (1926)
as Esther
Herr Tartüff (1926)
as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin (1925)
as Toni
Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (1925)
as Bärbe
Komödie des Herzens (1924)
as Gerda Werska
Seine Frau, die Unbekannte (1923)
as Eva
Die Prinzessin Suwarin (1923)
as Tina Bermonte
Tiefland (1923)
as Martha
Phantom (1922)
as Marie Starke
Luise Millerin (1922)
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922)
as (uncredited)
Der Mord in der Greenstreet (1921)
Der müde Tod (1921)
as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
Das Geheimnis von Bombay (1921)
as Gabriela Farnese/Concha
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel (1921)
as Malatti
Die Kwannon von Okadera (1920)
as Kwannon von Okadera
Das Blut der Ahnen (1920)
Der Richter von Zalamea (1920)
as Isabel
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil (1920)
as Malatti
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt (1920)
as Malatti
Die Frau im Himmel (1920)
as Tatjana
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)
as Jane
Spiritismus (1919)
Harakiri (1919)
as O-Take-San
Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See (1919)
as Sun Priestess Naela
Der Tänzer (1919)
as Andreas Mother
Die Rache ist mein (1919)
Bettler GmbH (1919)
Phantome des Lebens (1919)
Clown Charly (1918)
Der Volontär (1918)

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