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Dora Doll
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Dora Doll, the daughter of a Russian-Jewish banker who was expelled after the 1917 Revolution, was born in Berlin in 1922. She came to France at the end of the 1930s and aspired to become an actress. She already spoke Russian and German and soon learned French, then Italian and English.
One of her first screen appearances was as Juliette in Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949). She appeared as Lola in Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) and as Genisse in Jean Renoir's French Cancan (1955).
In 1976, she appeared on television in the French series Hôtel Baltimore in the role of Suzy. In 1977, she appeared in Fred Zinnemann's Julia as the woman passenger accompanying Lillian Hellman…
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Dora Doll, the daughter of a Russian-Jewish banker who was expelled after the 1917 Revolution, was born in Berlin in 1922. She came to France at the end of the 1930s and aspired to become an actress. She already spoke Russian and German and soon learned French, then Italian and English. One of her first screen appearances was as Juliette in Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949). She appeared as Lola in Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) and as Genisse in Jean Renoir's French Cancan (1955). In 1976, she appeared on television in the French series Hôtel Baltimore in the role of Suzy. In 1977, she appeared in Fred Zinnemann's Julia as the woman passenger accompanying Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) when Lily smuggled $50,000 through Nazi Germany for her friend Julia (Vanessa Redgrave). In 1982, she played in Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes. In the late 1990s, she played the grandmother Louise Chantreuil in the TV series Tide of Life. She was married twice. Her first husband was the actor Raymond Pellegrin, who she had a daughter with, Danielle. She was later married to François Deguelt. In 1993, Dora Doll was awarded the Prix "Reconnaissance des cinéphiles" from Puget-Théniers in honour of her life's work. She was made Knight of France's National Order of Merit in 2000. Dora Doll died on 15 November 2015 at her home in Gard, France, at the age of 93. Source: Article "Dora Doll" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA.
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BODY OF WORK
Dora Doll's Filmography
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Jacquou the Rebel
as Fantille
Comme t'y es belle !
as Mémé
You Are So Beautiful
as Catherine
No Poster
Et demain, Paula ?
as Andrée
Return to Algiers
as Paula Azera
Sapho
Le Chambon
as Emilienne
Torment
as Mme Chabert
Édith Piaf : Une brève rencontre
as Fréhel
Pas d'amour sans amour!
as Rose, la mère
Morasseix!!!
as The mother
Maria the Wolf
as La Juine
No Poster
Gueule d'arnaque
as Rachel
Once More
as La mère
Lady Cops
as Mme Lou
The Two Crocodiles
as Félicité
Maniac Killer
as Dorine
Cloud Waltzing
as Madame Solange
François Villon: The Maverick Poet
as Margot matroana bordelului
Superslob
as La serveuse choucroute
Le voyage à Paimpol
as La mère de Maryvonne
Angel of Death
as Sarah
Ave Maria
as Constance
Bastille
as Mw. Friedlander
No Poster
Doctor Lerne, Subgod
as Honorine
Le Secret des Andrônes
as Rosa Chamboulive
That Night of Varennes
as Nanette Precy
No Poster
L'étouffe grand-mère
as Mère Grivot
Les Charlots contre Dracula
as Commissioner Gluck
Les givrés
as Mme Gruber
Hothead
as Head nun
Monsieur Saint-Saëns
as La lingère
Les filles du régiment
as Alphonsine, dite Fonfon, dite Pente-Douce
Violette Nozière
as Madame Mayeul
Grandison
as Attendant
Women in Cellblock 9
as Loba
Peppermint Soda
as The Gymnastics Teacher
Julia
as Woman Passenger
Black and White in Color
as Maryvonne
Shattered Dreams
as Lisa
Boomerang
as Ginette
Femmes Fatales
as Simone, Captain of the Soldiers
Champagner aus dem Knobelbecher
as Tintine
Catherine & Co.
as Mère de Catherine
Incorrigible
as Thérèse, bar cashier
En grandes pompes
as Miss Lamour
Godefinger ou Certaines chattes n'aiment pas le mou
as Rose, Brother mistress
Bloody Murder
as Pascale Effront
Les Déracinés
Hellé
La Liberté en croupe
as Suzanne
Les Eaux mêlées
as La serveuse
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
as Rosa Patache
A Mouse with the Men
as Catherine, la caissière des magasins Dufour
Any Number Can Win
as Countess Doublianoff
Le Dernier Quart d'heure
as Portière
Secret File 1413
as L'entraîneuse qui drogue Baranger
Première brigade criminelle
as Julia Manton
Cocagne
as Hélène
Queen of the Tabarin Club
as Cabaret Singer
Les Frangines
as Jeanine - la servante
The Enigma of the Folies-Bergère
as Clara
125 rue Montmartre
as Germaine Montillier, dite Mémène
Witness in the City
as Prostitute (uncredited)
The Magnificent Tramp
as Mme Lucette Pichon
No Poster
Miss Pigalle
as Pascaline
The Young Lions
as Simone
The Fast Set
as Rita
Quelle sacrée soirée
as Lola Wander
Pas de grisbi pour Ricardo
as Brigitte
No Poster
Adorables démons
as Barbara Onisse
Love Descends from the Sky
as Véra
Le colonel est de la revue
as Cora, la Sanglante
No Poster
What a Team!
as Vicky
Soupçons
as Angèle Amélie Jeanne Mersch
Main Street
as Tonia
Elena and Her Men
as Rosa la Rose
Fernand cow-boy
as Mae Marlene
Tides of Passion
as Mariotte Borderet
We're Moving the Colonel
as Flora
La Môme Pigalle
as Catherine, la fiancée "éternelle" de Félix
No Mercy for the Cellers
as Jessy
The Little Rebels
as Mrs. Lecarnoy
Pleasures and Vices
as Josepha Marewska
Girl on the Third Floor
as Louise Richter
Nana
as Rose Mignon
Le Crâneur
as Betty Bell
French Cancan
as La Génisse
Pas de souris dans le business
as Mado
Napoleon
as 'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)
Yours Truly, Blake
as Isabelle
Obsession
as L'entraîneuse
La Cage aux souris
as 'Salade', kitchen aid
The Impure Ones
as Lili, une fille
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
as Lola
La fille perdue
as Suzy
Daughters of Destiny
as A girl (segment "Jeanne")
Illicit Motherhood
as Anita, la sœur de Doudou
Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
Other Side of Paradise
as Michèle
Dans la vie tout s'arrange
as Yvette
Savage Triangle
as La blonde amie de Paul
Pardon My French
as Yvette
The Passerby
as Irma
Paris Vice Squad
as Dora Bourbon, une victime du sadique
The Red Rose
as Evelyne Dorsey, movie star
Bed for Two
as Miss Paulette
A Man Walks in the City
as Girl
The Passenger
as Colette Mouche
Thus Finishes the Night
Manon
as Juliette
The Wizard of Heaven
as Benoîte
Jenny Lamour
as Léa (uncredited)
The House Under the Sea
as Prostitute
Inspector Sergil
as Sandra Grégoriff
Devil and the Angel
as Lenoir's secretary
The Heart of a Nation
as (uncredited)
Parade in 7 Nights
as Monique, friend of Irène (uncredited)
Night in December
as Une fille de la bande (uncredited)
Moulin Rouge
Beating Heart
as Secretary (uncredited)
Four Flights to Love
as (uncredited)
Cordial Agreement
as Extra (uncredited)
Hôtel du Nord
as Une femme au restaurant (uncredited)
The Curtain Rises
as Une élève du Conservatoire (uncredited)