Lil Dagover
Known for: Acting
Born: September 29, 1887
Died: January 23, 1980
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
121 movies · 7 TV shows, newest first
4.5
100 Years of the UFA
2017
8.0
Otto – The Series
1995
6.1
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
4.2
The Standard
1977NR
Die Teufelsbraut
1977
5.0
End of the Game
19759.0
Memento Mori
1975
9.0
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
7.0
The Pedestrian
19736.5
Glückspilze
1971NR
Kolibri
1971NR
Paradies der alten Damen
1971
NR
Professor Sound und die Pille
1971
6.2
Scene of the Crime
1970
8.3
Hotel Royal
1969NR
Seniorenclub
19688.0
Unwiederbringlich
1968NR
Lösegeld für Mylady
1967NR
Siedlung Arkadien
196710.0
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
1964NR
Blick zurück im Film
19637.0
Reisender ohne Gepäck
1963
6.6
The Strange Countess
196110.0
Der Mann von draußen
1961
7.6
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1959
5.8
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
19599.0
Trees die upright
1958
8.0
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
1957
8.0
Meine 16 Söhne
1956
6.4
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1956
7.0
Die Barrings
1955
6.3
Rosen im Herbst
1955
6.0
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
19558.0
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1955
6.0
Hubertus Castle
1954
8.0
Königliche Hoheit
1953
5.2
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1953
7.0
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
19526.0
German Film Award
1951
6.7
Chased by the Devil
1950NR
Es kommt ein Tag
1950
8.0
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
19499.0
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
1948
9.0
Bambi
1948
8.0
Musik in Salzburg
19445.0
Vienna 1910
1943
5.4
The Little Residence
1942
5.9
Bismarck
1940
7.8
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1940NR
Die Räuber
1940
8.0
Streit um den Knaben Jo
19396.2
Detours to Happiness
1939
8.0
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
19388.0
Triad
1938
6.6
The Stars Shine
1938
9.0
Rätsel um Beate
19387.0
The Kreutzer Sonata
1937
5.6
Fridericus
1937
6.3
The Final Chord
193610.0
August der Starke
1936
7.6
The Girl Irene
1936
7.5
The Higher Command
1935
10.0
Lady Windermeres Fächer
1935
7.0
The Bird Seller
1935
10.0
Ich heirate meine Frau
1934
9.0
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
1934
5.8
The Fugitive from Chicago
1934
7.0
Johannisnacht
1933
8.0
Married by the Stork
1932
5.5
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
1932
6.3
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
8.0
Madame Bluebeard
1931
7.2
Congress Dances
1931
7.0
Elisabeth of Austria
1931
8.0
The Case of Colonel Redl
1931
7.0
Boycott
1930
8.0
Old Song
1930
7.0
Va Banque
1930
7.7
The Great Desire
1930
9.0
The Second Kiss
1930
7.0
There is a woman who will never forget you
19307.3
The White Devil
1930
7.0
The Ring of the Empress
19309.0
Es flüstert die Nacht
1929
6.9
Monte Cristo
1929
8.0
Die Ehe
1929
8.0
La Grande Passion
1928
8.0
The Secret Courier
1928
7.0
The Maelstrom of Paris
1928
8.0
Hungarian Rhapsody
1928
10.0
Orientexpress
1927
7.0
Der Anwalt des Herzens
1927
10.0
His English Wife
1927
8.0
Only a Dancing Girl
19267.0
Der Veilchenfresser
1926
10.0
Love Is Blind
19265.3
Two Brothers
1926
7.2
Tartuffe
19268.0
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
1925
6.5
The Chronicles of the Gray House
1925
8.0
Comedy of the Heart
1924
5.8
His Wife, the Unknown
1923
9.0
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
192310.0
Tiefland
1923
6.9
Phantom
1922
7.0
Luise Millerin
1922
7.7
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922
8.0
The Death in the Greenstreet
1921
7.4
Destiny
1921NR
Toteninsel
1921
7.0
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
19219.0
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
1921
8.0
Die Kwannon von Okadera
1920
10.0
Das Blut der Ahnen
1920
10.0
The Mayor of Zalamea
1920
10.0
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1920
9.0
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
19209.0
Die Frau im Himmel
1920
7.9
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
7.0
Spiritismus
1919
5.7
Harakiri
1919
6.0
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1919
8.0
Der Tänzer
1919
7.0
Phantome des Lebens
1919NR
Bettler GmbH
191910.0
Die Rache ist mein
1919
NR
Clown Charly
19187.0
Der Volontär
1918