Lil Dagover
Acting
1887-09-29 · 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
2017 · Movie
Otto – The Series
1995 · Series
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979 · Movie
The Standard
1977 · Movie
Die Teufelsbraut
1977 · Movie
End of the Game
1975 · Movie
Memento Mori
1975 · Movie
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973 · Movie
The Pedestrian
1973 · Movie
Glückspilze
1971 · Movie
Kolibri
1971 · Movie
Paradies der alten Damen
1971 · Movie
Professor Sound und die Pille
1971 · Movie
Scene of the Crime
1970 · Series
Hotel Royal
1969 · Movie
Seniorenclub
1968 · Series
Unwiederbringlich
1968 · Movie
Lösegeld für Mylady
1967 · Movie
Siedlung Arkadien
1967 · Movie
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
1964 · Series
Blick zurück im Film
1963 · Series
Reisender ohne Gepäck
1963 · Movie
The Strange Countess
1961 · Movie
Der Mann von draußen
1961 · Movie
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1959 · Movie
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
1959 · Movie
Trees die upright
1958 · Movie
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
1957 · Movie
Meine 16 Söhne
1956 · Movie
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1956 · Movie
Die Barrings
1955 · Movie
Rosen im Herbst
1955 · Movie
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
1955 · Movie
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1955 · Movie
Hubertus Castle
1954 · Movie
Königliche Hoheit
1953 · Movie
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1953 · Movie
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
1952 · Movie
German Film Award
1951 · Series
Chased by the Devil
1950 · Movie
Es kommt ein Tag
1950 · Movie
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
1949 · Movie
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
1948 · Movie
Bambi
1948 · Series
Musik in Salzburg
1944 · Movie
Vienna 1910
1943 · Movie
The Little Residence
1942 · Movie
Bismarck
1940 · Movie
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1940 · Movie
Die Räuber
1940 · Movie
Streit um den Knaben Jo
1939 · Movie
Detours to Happiness
1939 · Movie
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
1938 · Movie
Triad
1938 · Movie
The Stars Shine
1938 · Movie
Rätsel um Beate
1938 · Movie
The Kreutzer Sonata
1937 · Movie
Fridericus
1937 · Movie
The Final Chord
1936 · Movie
August der Starke
1936 · Movie
The Girl Irene
1936 · Movie
The Higher Command
1935 · Movie
Lady Windermeres Fächer
1935 · Movie
The Bird Seller
1935 · Movie
Ich heirate meine Frau
1934 · Movie
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
1934 · Movie
The Fugitive from Chicago
1934 · Movie
Johannisnacht
1933 · Movie
Married by the Stork
1932 · Movie
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
1932 · Movie
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932 · Movie
Madame Bluebeard
1931 · Movie
Congress Dances
1931 · Movie
Elisabeth of Austria
1931 · Movie
The Case of Colonel Redl
1931 · Movie
Boycott
1930 · Movie
Old Song
1930 · Movie
Va Banque
1930 · Movie
The Great Desire
1930 · Movie
The Second Kiss
1930 · Movie
There is a woman who will never forget you
1930 · Movie
The White Devil
1930 · Movie
The Ring of the Empress
1930 · Movie
Es flüstert die Nacht
1929 · Movie
Monte Cristo
1929 · Movie
Die Ehe
1929 · Movie
La Grande Passion
1928 · Movie
The Secret Courier
1928 · Movie
The Maelstrom of Paris
1928 · Movie
Hungarian Rhapsody
1928 · Movie
Orientexpress
1927 · Movie
Der Anwalt des Herzens
1927 · Movie
His English Wife
1927 · Movie
Only a Dancing Girl
1926 · Movie
Der Veilchenfresser
1926 · Movie
Love Is Blind
1926 · Movie
Two Brothers
1926 · Movie
Tartuffe
1926 · Movie
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
1925 · Movie
The Chronicles of the Gray House
1925 · Movie
Comedy of the Heart
1924 · Movie
His Wife, the Unknown
1923 · Movie
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
1923 · Movie
Tiefland
1923 · Movie
Phantom
1922 · Movie
Luise Millerin
1922 · Movie
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922 · Movie
The Death in the Greenstreet
1921 · Movie
Destiny
1921 · Movie
Toteninsel
1921 · Movie
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
1921 · Movie
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
1921 · Movie
Die Kwannon von Okadera
1920 · Movie
Das Blut der Ahnen
1920 · Movie
The Mayor of Zalamea
1920 · Movie
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1920 · Movie
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
1920 · Movie
Die Frau im Himmel
1920 · Movie
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920 · Movie
Spiritismus
1919 · Movie
Harakiri
1919 · Movie
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1919 · Movie
Der Tänzer
1919 · Movie
Bettler GmbH
1919 · Movie
Die Rache ist mein
1919 · Movie
Phantome des Lebens
1919 · Movie
Clown Charly
1918 · Movie
Der Volontär
1918 · Movie