Lil Dagover
Birthday: 1887-09-29
Deathday: 1980-01-23
Birthplace: Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned
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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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo | Mercédès | |
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1979-05-08 | Tales from the Vienna Woods | Helene |
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1978-05-05 | End of the Game | Gastmann's Mother |
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1977-11-25 | The Standard | Erzherzogin |
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1977-09-19 | Die Teufelsbraut | |
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1975-01-05 | Memento Mori | Charmian Colston |
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1973-09-05 | The Pedestrian | Frau Eschenlohr |
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1971-09-04 | Glückspilze | |
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1971-07-09 | Kolibri | Anna Maria Hansen |
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1971-01-24 | Paradies der alten Damen | Leonore Feller |
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1971-01-01 | Professor Sound und die Pille | Seine Frau |
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1969-12-14 | Hotel Royal | Maharani von Dungapur |
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1968-11-20 | Unwiederbringlich | Prinzessin Maria Eleonore |
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1967-12-14 | Lösegeld für Mylady | Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers |
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1967-07-02 | Siedlung Arkadien | Frau Assmann |
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1963-04-23 | Reisender ohne Gepäck | Herzogin |
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1961-11-08 | The Strange Countess | Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron |
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1961-09-04 | Der Mann von draußen | Mrs.Gillis |
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1959-11-19 | Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil | Elisabeth Buddenbrook |
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1959-11-10 | Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil | Elisabeth Buddenbrook |
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1958-08-27 | Trees die upright | Großmutter |
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1957-07-15 | Unter Palmen am blauen Meer | Contessa Celestina Morini |
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1956-03-09 | Meine 16 Söhne | Frau Senator Giselius |
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1956-02-28 | Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe | Kaiserin Elisabeth |
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1955-10-26 | Die Barrings | Thilde von Barring |
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1955-09-28 | Rosen im Herbst | Mutter Briest |
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1955-09-16 | Der Fischer vom Heiligensee | Baronin Hermine von Velden |
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1955-05-25 | Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe | Alice Lechaudier |
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1954-08-24 | Hubertus Castle | Baronin Gundi Kleesberg |
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1953-12-22 | Königliche Hoheit | Gräfin Löwenjoul |
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1953-12-18 | Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine | Gräfin Waldenberg |
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1952-09-26 | Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee | Lamberta |
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1950-10-23 | Chased by the Devil | Frau Dakar |
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1950-10-16 | Es kommt ein Tag | Madame Mombour |
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1949-11-23 | Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe | Florentine Alvensleben |
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1948-10-25 | Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary | Margot von Korff |
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1944-09-08 | Musik in Salzburg | Ursula Sanden |
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1943-08-26 | Vienna 1910 | Maria Anschütz |
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1942-05-28 | Kleine Residenz | Herzogin von Lauffenburg |
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1940-12-06 | Bismarck | Eugénie |
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1940-11-13 | Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius | Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim |
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1940-01-01 | Die Räuber | |
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1939-09-22 | Streit um den Knaben Jo | Leonine Brackwieser |
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1939-05-15 | Umwege zum Glück | Hanna Bracht |
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1938-08-21 | Maja zwischen zwei Ehen | Maja |
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1938-05-23 | Dreiklang | Cornelia Contarini |
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1938-03-17 | The Stars Shine | Gast |
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1938-02-04 | Rätsel um Beate | Beate Kaiserling |
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1937-02-11 | The Kreutzer Sonata | Jelaina Posdnyschew |
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1937-02-08 | Fridericus | Marquise de Pompadour |
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1936-06-26 | The Final Chord | Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau |
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1936-01-17 | August der Starke | Gräfin Aurore Königsmark |
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1936-01-01 | The Girl Irene | Jennifer Lawrence |
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1935-12-30 | The Higher Command | Madame Martin |
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1935-10-24 | Lady Windermeres Fächer | Mrs. Erlynne |
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1935-09-25 | The Bird Seller | Die Kurfürstin |
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1934-11-16 | Ich heirate meine Frau | Lisa Behmer |
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1934-08-30 | Eine Frau die weiß, was sie will | Manon Cavallini |
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1934-01-02 | The Fugitive from Chicago | Eveline |
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1933-08-16 | Johannisnacht | Lisa Lers |
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1932-12-17 | Married by the Stork | Thea Roland |
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1932-09-07 | Barbarina, the King's Dancer | Barberina Campanini |
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1932-01-09 | The Woman from Monte Carlo | Lottie Corlaix |
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1931-12-31 | Madame Bluebeard | Frau Erika Dankwarth |
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1931-09-29 | Congress Dances | Komtesse |
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1931-07-20 | Elisabeth of Austria | Elisabeth von Österreich |
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1931-02-27 | The Case of Colonel Redl | Vera Nikolayevna |
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1930-12-14 | Boycott | Frau von Generaldirektor Haller |
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1930-10-15 | Old Song | Baronin Eggedy |
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1930-09-18 | Va Banque | Harriet Williams |
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1930-04-17 | The Second Kiss | Empress Marie Theresa |
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1930-03-27 | There is a woman who will never forget you | Tilly Ferrantes |
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1930-01-28 | The White Devil | Nelidowa |
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1930-01-27 | The Ring of the Empress | Catherine the Great |
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1929-09-06 | Es flüstert die Nacht | |
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1929-04-30 | Monte Cristo | Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf |
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1929-04-23 | Die Ehe | |
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1928-12-21 | La Grande Passion | Sonia de Blich |
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1928-10-25 | The Secret Courier | Mme. Thérèse de Renal |
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1928-03-29 | The Maelstrom of Paris | |
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1928-01-02 | Hungarian Rhapsody | Camilla |
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1927-12-01 | Orientexpress | Beate von Morton |
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1927-11-07 | Der Anwalt des Herzens | June Orchard |
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1927-01-17 | His English Wife | Cathleen Paget |
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1926-11-04 | Only a Dancing Girl | Marie Berner |
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1926-09-19 | Der Veilchenfresser | Melitta von Arthof |
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1926-08-16 | Love is Blind | |
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1926-03-22 | Two Brothers | Esther |
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1926-01-25 | Tartuffe | Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife |
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1925-04-01 | Der Demütige und die Tänzerin | Toni |
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1925-02-11 | The Chronicles of the Gray House | Bärbe |
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1924-09-19 | Comedy of the Heart | Gerda Werska |
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1923-10-19 | His Wife, the Unknown | Eva |
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1923-04-11 | Die Prinzessin Suwarin | Tina Bermonte |
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1923-01-01 | Tiefland | Martha |
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1922-11-13 | Phantom | Marie Starke |
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1922-08-21 | Luise Millerin | |
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1922-04-27 | Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler | (uncredited) |
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1921-12-27 | The Death in the Greenstreet | |
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1921-10-06 | Destiny | Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien |
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1921-01-06 | Das Geheimnis von Bombay | Gabriela Farnese/Concha |
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1921-01-01 | Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel | Malatti |
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1920-12-02 | Die Kwannon von Okadera | Kwannon von Okadera |
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1920-11-05 | Das Blut der Ahnen | |
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1920-10-28 | The Mayor of Zalamea | Isabel |
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1920-10-22 | Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt | Malatti |
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1920-10-22 | Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil | Malatti |
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1920-08-23 | Die Frau im Himmel | Tatjana |
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1920-02-27 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Jane |
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1919-12-31 | Spiritismus | |
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1919-12-18 | Harakiri | O-Take-San |
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1919-10-03 | The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea | Sun Priestess Naela |
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1919-09-06 | Der Tänzer | Andreas Mother |
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1919-01-01 | Phantome des Lebens | |
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1919-01-01 | Bettler GmbH | |
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1919-01-01 | Die Rache ist mein | |
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1918-09-13 | Clown Charly | |
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1918-07-12 | Der Volontär |