Lil Dagover
Acting
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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movie100 Years of the UFA
2017
Self - Actress (archive footage)
tvOtto – The Series
1995
Verschiedene
movieEnd of the Game
1978
Gastmann's Mother
movieThe Standard
1977
Erzherzogin
Memento Mori
1975
Charmian Colston
movieThe Pedestrian
1973
Frau Eschenlohr
Kolibri
1971
Anna Maria Hansen
movieProfessor Sound und die Pille
1971
Seine Frau
tvScene of the Crime
1970
Mutter Koenen
movieHotel Royal
1969
Maharani von Dungapur
Unwiederbringlich
1968
Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
Lösegeld für Mylady
1967
Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
Siedlung Arkadien
1967
Frau Assmann
movieThe Strange Countess
1961
Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
movieBuddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1959
Elisabeth Buddenbrook
movieBuddenbrooks - 1. Teil
1959
Elisabeth Buddenbrook
movieUnter Palmen am blauen Meer
1957
Contessa Celestina Morini
movieMeine 16 Söhne
1956
Frau Senator Giselius
movieKronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1956
Kaiserin Elisabeth
movieDie Barrings
1955
Thilde von Barring
movieRosen im Herbst
1955
Mutter Briest
movieDer Fischer vom Heiligensee
1955
Baronin Hermine von Velden
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1955
Alice Lechaudier
movieHubertus Castle
1954
Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
movieKönigliche Hoheit
1953
Gräfin Löwenjoul
movieRed Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1953
Gräfin Waldenberg
movieChased by the Devil
1950
Frau Dakar
Es kommt ein Tag
1950
Madame Mombour
movieMan spielt nicht mit der Liebe
1949
Florentine Alvensleben
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
1948
Margot von Korff
tvBambi
1948
Self
movieMusik in Salzburg
1944
Ursula Sanden
Vienna 1910
1943
Maria Anschütz
movieThe Little Residence
1942
Herzogin von Lauffenburg
movieBismarck
1940
Eugénie
movieFriedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1940
Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
movieStreit um den Knaben Jo
1939
Leonine Brackwieser
Triad
1938
Cornelia Contarini
movieRätsel um Beate
1938
Beate Kaiserling
The Kreutzer Sonata
1937
Jelaina Posdnyschew
movieFridericus
1937
Marquise de Pompadour
movieThe Final Chord
1936
Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
August der Starke
1936
Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
movieThe Girl Irene
1936
Jennifer Lawrence
movieThe Higher Command
1935
Madame Martin
movieLady Windermeres Fächer
1935
Mrs. Erlynne
movieThe Bird Seller
1935
Die Kurfürstin
movieIch heirate meine Frau
1934
Lisa Behmer
movieA Woman Who Knows What She Wants
1934
Manon Cavallini
movieJohannisnacht
1933
Lisa Lers
movieMarried by the Stork
1932
Thea Roland
movieBarbarina, the King's Dancer
1932
Barberina Campanini
movieThe Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
Lottie Corlaix
movieMadame Bluebeard
1931
Frau Erika Dankwarth
movieCongress Dances
1931
Komtesse
movieElisabeth of Austria
1931
Elisabeth von Österreich
movieThe Case of Colonel Redl
1931
Vera Nikolayevna
movieBoycott
1930
Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
movieOld Song
1930
Baronin Eggedy
movieVa Banque
1930
Harriet Williams
movieThe Great Passion
1930
Herself
movieThe Second Kiss
1930
Empress Marie Theresa
movieThere is a woman who will never forget you
1930
Tilly Ferrantes
movieThe Ring of the Empress
1930
Catherine the Great
movieMonte Cristo
1929
Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
movieLa Grande Passion
1928
Sonia de Blich
movieThe Secret Courier
1928
Mme. Thérèse de Renal
movieHungarian Rhapsody
1928
Camilla
movieOrientexpress
1927
Beate von Morton
movieDer Anwalt des Herzens
1927
June Orchard
movieHis English Wife
1927
Cathleen Paget
movieOnly a Dancing Girl
1926
Marie Berner
Der Veilchenfresser
1926
Melitta von Arthof
movieTartuffe
1926
Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
movieComedy of the Heart
1924
Gerda Werska
movieDie Prinzessin Suwarin
1923
Tina Bermonte
moviePhantom
1922
Marie Starke
movieDr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922
(uncredited)
movieDestiny
1921
Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
movieDas Geheimnis von Bombay
1921
Gabriela Farnese/Concha
movieDie Kwannon von Okadera
1920
Kwannon von Okadera
movieHarakiri
1919
O-Take-San
movieThe Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1919
Sun Priestess Naela
movieDer Tänzer
1919
Andreas Mother
