Lil Dagover
Actor
Born September 29, 1887 in Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
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.
Filmography
100 Years of the UFA
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Otto – The Series
Verschiedene
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Helene
End of the Game
Gastmann's Mother
The Standard
Erzherzogin
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Self
The Pedestrian
Frau Eschenlohr
Professor Sound und die Pille
Seine Frau
Scene of the Crime
Mutter Koenen
Hotel Royal
Maharani von Dungapur
The Strange Countess
Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
Contessa Celestina Morini
Meine 16 Söhne
Frau Senator Giselius
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
Kaiserin Elisabeth
Die Barrings
Thilde von Barring
Rosen im Herbst
Mutter Briest
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
Baronin Hermine von Velden
Hubertus Castle
Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
Königliche Hoheit
Gräfin Löwenjoul
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
Gräfin Waldenberg
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
Lamberta
Chased by the Devil
Frau Dakar
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
Florentine Alvensleben
Bambi
Self
Musik in Salzburg
Ursula Sanden
The Little Residence
Herzogin von Lauffenburg
Bismarck
Eugénie
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Streit um den Knaben Jo
Leonine Brackwieser
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
Maja
The Stars Shine
Gast
Rätsel um Beate
Beate Kaiserling
Fridericus
Marquise de Pompadour
The Final Chord
Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
The Girl Irene
Jennifer Lawrence
The Higher Command
Madame Martin
Lady Windermeres Fächer
Mrs. Erlynne
The Bird Seller
Die Kurfürstin
Ich heirate meine Frau
Lisa Behmer
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
Manon Cavallini
The Fugitive from Chicago
Eveline
Johannisnacht
Lisa Lers
Married by the Stork
Thea Roland
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
Barberina Campanini
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Lottie Corlaix
Madame Bluebeard
Frau Erika Dankwarth
Congress Dances
Komtesse
Elisabeth of Austria
Elisabeth von Österreich
The Case of Colonel Redl
Vera Nikolayevna
Boycott
Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
Old Song
Baronin Eggedy
Va Banque
Harriet Williams
The Great Passion
Herself
The Second Kiss
Empress Marie Theresa
There is a woman who will never forget you
Tilly Ferrantes
The Ring of the Empress
Catherine the Great
Monte Cristo
Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
Die Ehe
La Grande Passion
Sonia de Blich
The Secret Courier
Mme. Thérèse de Renal
The Maelstrom of Paris
Hungarian Rhapsody
Camilla
Orientexpress
Beate von Morton
Der Anwalt des Herzens
June Orchard
His English Wife
Cathleen Paget
Only a Dancing Girl
Marie Berner
Love Is Blind
Tartuffe
Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
The Chronicles of the Gray House
Bärbe
Comedy of the Heart
Gerda Werska
His Wife, the Unknown
Eva
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
Tina Bermonte
Phantom
Marie Starke
Luise Millerin
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
(uncredited)
The Death in the Greenstreet
Destiny
Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
Gabriela Farnese/Concha
Die Kwannon von Okadera
Kwannon von Okadera
Das Blut der Ahnen
The Mayor of Zalamea
Isabel
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
Malatti
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
Malatti
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Jane
Spiritismus
Harakiri
O-Take-San
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
Sun Priestess Naela
Der Tänzer
Andreas Mother
Phantome des Lebens
Clown Charly