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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 FrancâŠ
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Lil Dagover's Filmography
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100 Years of the UFA
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Tales from the Vienna Woods
as Helene
The Standard
as Erzherzogin
No Poster
Die Teufelsbraut
End of the Game
as Gastmann's Mother
No Poster
Memento Mori
as Charmian Colston
Der groĂe Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self
The Pedestrian
as Frau Eschenlohr
No Poster
GlĂŒckspilze
No Poster
Kolibri
as Anna Maria Hansen
No Poster
Paradies der alten Damen
as Leonore Feller
Professor Sound und die Pille
as Seine Frau
Hotel Royal
as Maharani von Dungapur
No Poster
Unwiederbringlich
as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
No Poster
Lösegeld fĂŒr Mylady
as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
No Poster
Siedlung Arkadien
as Frau Assmann
No Poster
Reisender ohne GepÀck
as Herzogin
The Strange Countess
as GrÀfin / Lady Leonora Moron
No Poster
Der Mann von drauĂen
as Mrs.Gillis
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
No Poster
Trees die upright
as GroĂmutter
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
as Contessa Celestina Morini
Meine 16 Söhne
as Frau Senator Giselius
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
as Kaiserin Elisabeth
Die Barrings
as Thilde von Barring
Rosen im Herbst
as Mutter Briest
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
as Baronin Hermine von Velden
No Poster
Ich weiĂ, wofĂŒr ich lebe
as Alice Lechaudier
Hubertus Castle
as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
Königliche Hoheit
as GrÀfin Löwenjoul
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
as GrÀfin Waldenberg
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
as Lamberta
Chased by the Devil
as Frau Dakar
No Poster
Es kommt ein Tag
as Madame Mombour
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
as Florentine Alvensleben
No Poster
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
as Margot von Korff
Musik in Salzburg
as Ursula Sanden
No Poster
Vienna 1910
as Maria AnschĂŒtz
The Little Residence
as Herzogin von Lauffenburg
Bismarck
as Eugénie
Friedrich Schiller â The Triumph of a Genius
as GrÀfin Franziska von Hohenheim
No Poster
Die RĂ€uber
Streit um den Knaben Jo
as Leonine Brackwieser
No Poster
Detours to Happiness
as Hanna Bracht
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
as Maja
No Poster
Triad
as Cornelia Contarini
The Stars Shine
as Gast
RĂ€tsel um Beate
as Beate Kaiserling
No Poster
The Kreutzer Sonata
as Jelaina Posdnyschew
Fridericus
as Marquise de Pompadour
The Final Chord
as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
No Poster
August der Starke
as GrÀfin Aurore Königsmark
The Girl Irene
as Jennifer Lawrence
The Higher Command
as Madame Martin
Lady Windermeres FĂ€cher
as Mrs. Erlynne
The Bird Seller
as Die KurfĂŒrstin
Ich heirate meine Frau
as Lisa Behmer
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
as Manon Cavallini
The Fugitive from Chicago
as Eveline
Johannisnacht
as Lisa Lers
Married by the Stork
as Thea Roland
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
as Barberina Campanini
The Woman from Monte Carlo
as Lottie Corlaix
Madame Bluebeard
as Frau Erika Dankwarth
Congress Dances
as Komtesse
Elisabeth of Austria
as Elisabeth von Ăsterreich
The Case of Colonel Redl
as Vera Nikolayevna
Boycott
as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
Old Song
as Baronin Eggedy
Va Banque
as Harriet Williams
The Great Desire
as Herself
The Second Kiss
as Empress Marie Theresa
There is a woman who will never forget you
as Tilly Ferrantes
No Poster
The White Devil
as Nelidowa
The Ring of the Empress
as Catherine the Great
No Poster
Es flĂŒstert die Nacht
Monte Cristo
as MercédÚs / Comtesse de Morcerf
Die Ehe
La Grande Passion
as Sonia de Blich
The Secret Courier
as Mme. ThérÚse de Renal
The Maelstrom of Paris
Hungarian Rhapsody
as Camilla
Orientexpress
as Beate von Morton
Der Anwalt des Herzens
as June Orchard
His English Wife
as Cathleen Paget
Only a Dancing Girl
as Marie Berner
No Poster
Der Veilchenfresser
as Melitta von Arthof
Love Is Blind
No Poster
Two Brothers
as Esther
Tartuffe
as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
No Poster
Der DemĂŒtige und die TĂ€nzerin
as Toni
The Chronicles of the Gray House
as BĂ€rbe
Comedy of the Heart
as Gerda Werska
His Wife, the Unknown
as Eva
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
as Tina Bermonte
No Poster
Tiefland
as Martha
Phantom
as Marie Starke
Luise Millerin
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
as (uncredited)
The Death in the Greenstreet
Destiny
as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
No Poster
Toteninsel
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
as Gabriela Farnese/Concha
No Poster
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
as Malatti
Die Kwannon von Okadera
as Kwannon von Okadera
Das Blut der Ahnen
The Mayor of Zalamea
as Isabel
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
as Malatti
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
as Malatti
No Poster
Die Frau im Himmel
as Tatjana
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
as Jane
Spiritismus
Harakiri
as O-Take-San
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
as Sun Priestess Naela
The Dancer
as Andreas Mother
No Poster
Die Rache ist mein
No Poster
Bettler GmbH
Phantome des Lebens
Clown Charly
No Poster