Lil Dagover
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.
Fotos
Películas (122)
100 Years of the UFA
2017 · Self - Actress (archive footage)
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979 · Helene
The Standard
1977 · Erzherzogin
Die Teufelsbraut
1977
End of the Game
1975 · Gastmann's Mother
Memento Mori
1975 · Charmian Colston
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973 · Self
The Pedestrian
1973 · Frau Eschenlohr
Glückspilze
1971
Kolibri
1971 · Anna Maria Hansen
Paradies der alten Damen
1971 · Leonore Feller
Professor Sound und die Pille
1971 · Seine Frau
Hotel Royal
1969 · Maharani von Dungapur
Unwiederbringlich
1968 · Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
Lösegeld für Mylady
1967 · Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
Siedlung Arkadien
1967 · Frau Assmann
Reisender ohne Gepäck
1963 · Herzogin
The Strange Countess
1961 · Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
Der Mann von draußen
1961 · Mrs.Gillis
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1959 · Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
1959 · Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Trees die upright
1958 · Großmutter
Los ojos del siglo (Volumen I)
1957 · Ella misma (material de archivo)
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
1957 · Contessa Celestina Morini
Meine 16 Söhne
1956 · Frau Senator Giselius
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1956 · Kaiserin Elisabeth
Die Barrings
1955 · Thilde von Barring
Rosen im Herbst
1955 · Mutter Briest
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
1955 · Baronin Hermine von Velden
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1955 · Alice Lechaudier
Hubertus Castle
1954 · Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
Königliche Hoheit
1953 · Gräfin Löwenjoul
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1953 · Gräfin Waldenberg
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
1952 · Lamberta
Chased by the Devil
1950 · Frau Dakar
Es kommt ein Tag
1950 · Madame Mombour
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
1949 · Florentine Alvensleben
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
1948 · Margot von Korff
Musik in Salzburg
1944 · Ursula Sanden
Vienna 1910
1943 · Maria Anschütz
The Little Residence
1942 · Herzogin von Lauffenburg
Bismarck
1940 · Eugénie
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1940 · Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Die Räuber
1940
Streit um den Knaben Jo
1939 · Leonine Brackwieser
Detours to Happiness
1939 · Hanna Bracht
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
1938 · Maja
Triad
1938 · Cornelia Contarini
The Stars Shine
1938 · Gast
Rätsel um Beate
1938 · Beate Kaiserling
The Kreutzer Sonata
1937 · Jelaina Posdnyschew
Fridericus
1937 · Marquise de Pompadour
The Final Chord
1936 · Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
August der Starke
1936 · Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
The Girl Irene
1936 · Jennifer Lawrence
The Higher Command
1935 · Madame Martin
Lady Windermeres Fächer
1935 · Mrs. Erlynne
The Bird Seller
1935 · Die Kurfürstin
Ich heirate meine Frau
1934 · Lisa Behmer
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
1934 · Manon Cavallini
The Fugitive from Chicago
1934 · Eveline
Johannisnacht
1933 · Lisa Lers
Married by the Stork
1932 · Thea Roland
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
1932 · Barberina Campanini
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932 · Lottie Corlaix
Madame Bluebeard
1931 · Frau Erika Dankwarth
Congress Dances
1931 · Komtesse
Elisabeth of Austria
1931 · Elisabeth von Österreich
The Case of Colonel Redl
1931 · Vera Nikolayevna
Boycott
1930 · Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
Old Song
1930 · Baronin Eggedy
Va Banque
1930 · Harriet Williams
The Great Desire
1930 · Herself
The Second Kiss
1930 · Empress Marie Theresa
There is a woman who will never forget you
1930 · Tilly Ferrantes
The White Devil
1930 · Nelidowa
The Ring of the Empress
1930 · Catherine the Great
Es flüstert die Nacht
1929
Monte Cristo
1929 · Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
Die Ehe
1929
La Grande Passion
1928 · Sonia de Blich
The Secret Courier
1928 · Mme. Thérèse de Renal
The Maelstrom of Paris
1928
Hungarian Rhapsody
1928 · Camilla
Orientexpress
1927 · Beate von Morton
Der Anwalt des Herzens
1927 · June Orchard
His English Wife
1927 · Cathleen Paget
Only a Dancing Girl
1926 · Marie Berner
Der Veilchenfresser
1926 · Melitta von Arthof
Love Is Blind
1926
Two Brothers
1926 · Esther
Tartuffe
1926 · Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
1925 · Toni
The Chronicles of the Gray House
1925 · Bärbe
Comedy of the Heart
1924 · Gerda Werska
His Wife, the Unknown
1923 · Eva
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
1923 · Tina Bermonte
Tiefland
1923 · Martha
Phantom
1922 · Marie Starke
Luise Millerin
1922
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922 · (uncredited)
The Death in the Greenstreet
1921
Destiny
1921 · Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
Toteninsel
1921
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
1921 · Gabriela Farnese/Concha
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
1921 · Malatti
Die Kwannon von Okadera
1920 · Kwannon von Okadera
Das Blut der Ahnen
1920
The Mayor of Zalamea
1920 · Isabel
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1920 · Malatti
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
1920 · Malatti
Die Frau im Himmel
1920 · Tatjana
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920 · Jane
Spiritismus
1919
Harakiri
1919 · O-Take-San
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1919 · Sun Priestess Naela
The Dancer
1919 · Andreas Mother
Phantome des Lebens
1919
Bettler GmbH
1919
Die Rache ist mein
1919
Clown Charly
1918
Der Volontär
1918
