Lil Dagover

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

138

Movies

121

Born: September 29, 1887 – January 23, 1980
From: Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]

Biography

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.

Works

121 films

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

19207.9

The Bird Seller

19357.0

Monte Cristo

19296.9

Destiny

19217.4

Toteninsel

1921

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

19227.7

The Fugitive from Chicago

19345.8

Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe

19558.0

The White Devil

19307.3

Trees die upright

19589.0

Vienna 1910

19435.0

Boycott

19307.0

Maja zwischen zwei Ehen

19388.0

Detours to Happiness

19396.2

End of the Game

19755.0

The Little Residence

19425.4

Harakiri

19195.8

Der Volontär

19187.0

The Case of Colonel Redl

19318.0

Das Geheimnis von Bombay

19217.0

Die Teufelsbraut

1977

Kolibri

1971

Fridericus

19375.6

La Grande Passion

19288.0

Reisender ohne Gepäck

19637.0

The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea

19196.0

Tales from the Vienna Woods

19796.1

Die Räuber

1940

Phantom

19226.9

Die Rache ist mein

191910.0

Der Veilchenfresser

19267.0

The Strange Countess

19616.6

Das Blut der Ahnen

192010.0

Siedlung Arkadien

1967

Madame Bluebeard

19318.0

Es kommt ein Tag

1950

Der Mann von draußen

196110.0

100 Years of the UFA

20174.5

Only a Dancing Girl

19268.0

Tartuffe

19267.2

The Standard

19774.2

Va Banque

19307.0

Der Demütige und die Tänzerin

19258.0

Hungarian Rhapsody

19288.0

The Woman from Monte Carlo

19326.3

Die Prinzessin Suwarin

19239.0

Congress Dances

19317.2

Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee

19527.0

The Girl Irene

19367.6

Bettler GmbH

1919

The Pedestrian

19737.0

The Great Passion

19307.7

Der Anwalt des Herzens

19277.0

Rosen im Herbst

19556.3

Clown Charly

1918

Elisabeth of Austria

19317.0

Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil

19595.8

Old Song

19308.0

Ich heirate meine Frau

193410.0

The Stars Shine

19386.6

Paradies der alten Damen

1971

Die Kwannon von Okadera

19208.0

Luise Millerin

19227.0

Spiritismus

19197.0

The Secret Courier

19288.0

Der Tänzer

19198.0

Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius

19407.8

Two Brothers

19265.3

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt

19739.0

Königliche Hoheit

19538.0

The Higher Command

19357.5

The Chronicles of the Gray House

19256.5

Bismarck

19405.9

Lady Windermeres Fächer

193510.0

Meine 16 Söhne

19568.0

Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe

19566.4

The Maelstrom of Paris

19287.0

Hubertus Castle

19546.0

Glückspilze

19716.5

Rätsel um Beate

19389.0

Die Frau im Himmel

19209.0

The Final Chord

19366.3

His English Wife

192710.0

Love Is Blind

192610.0

Hotel Royal

19698.3

Unwiederbringlich

19688.0

Married by the Stork

19328.0

Der Fischer vom Heiligensee

19556.0

Lösegeld für Mylady

1967

Unter Palmen am blauen Meer

19578.0

Streit um den Knaben Jo

19398.0

Die Barrings

19557.0

August der Starke

193610.0

Musik in Salzburg

19448.0

Triad

19388.0

Chased by the Devil

19506.7

The Kreutzer Sonata

19377.0

Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil

19209.0

Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine

19535.2

Barbarina, the King's Dancer

19325.5

Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil

19597.6

Professor Sound und die Pille

1971

Phantome des Lebens

19197.0

There is a woman who will never forget you

19307.0

Die Ehe

19298.0

The Second Kiss

19309.0

The Mayor of Zalamea

192010.0

Memento Mori

19759.0

The Death in the Greenstreet

19218.0

Comedy of the Heart

19248.0

A Woman Who Knows What She Wants

19349.0

Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt

192010.0

Tiefland

192310.0

Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary

19489.0

Orientexpress

192710.0

Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe

19498.0

His Wife, the Unknown

19235.8

The Ring of the Empress

19307.0

Johannisnacht

19337.0

Es flüstert die Nacht

19299.0

Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel

19219.0