Lil Dagover
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.
128 acting credits
Acting · 128
Scene of the Crime
1970
Bambi
1948
German Film Award
1951
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
1964
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
Otto – The Series
1995
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922
Seniorenclub
1968
Destiny
1921
Blick zurück im Film
1963
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1919
Phantom
1922
End of the Game
1978
The Strange Countess
1961
100 Years of the UFA
2017
The Standard
1977
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
1932
Congress Dances
1931
Bismarck
1940
Tartuffe
1926
The Little Residence
1942
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
Rosen im Herbst
1955
Die Barrings
1955
The Final Chord
1936
The Chronicles of the Gray House
1925
Fridericus
1937
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
1959
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1953
Elisabeth of Austria
1931
There is a woman who will never forget you
1930
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1959
Monte Cristo
1929
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
1934
The White Devil
1930
The Great Passion
1930
Va Banque
1930
Married by the Stork
1932
Siedlung Arkadien
1967
The Pedestrian
1973
Harakiri
1919
Boycott
1930
Professor Sound und die Pille
1971
Königliche Hoheit
1953
Glückspilze
1971
The Bird Seller
1935
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
1921
Vienna 1910
1943
Old Song
1930
Two Brothers
1926
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
Hotel Royal
1969
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1940
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
1925
The Death in the Greenstreet
1921
Memento Mori
1975
The Stars Shine
1938
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1920
The Secret Courier
1928
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
1923
Rätsel um Beate
1938
The Maelstrom of Paris
1928
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
1957
Lösegeld für Mylady
1967
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
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The Girl Irene
1936
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1955
Hungarian Rhapsody
1928
The Case of Colonel Redl
1931
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
1920
Lady Windermeres Fächer
1935
The Fugitive from Chicago
1934
His English Wife
1927
Die Ehe
1929
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
1949
La Grande Passion
1928
Paradies der alten Damen
1971
Die Kwannon von Okadera
1920
Hubertus Castle
1954
Only a Dancing Girl
1926
Ich heirate meine Frau
1934
Luise Millerin
1922
Comedy of the Heart
1924
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
1955
Die Frau im Himmel
1920
Der Tänzer
1919
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
1921
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
1948
Chased by the Devil
1950
The Higher Command
1935
Phantome des Lebens
1919
Der Anwalt des Herzens
1927
Triad
1938
August der Starke
1936
Unwiederbringlich
1968
Trees die upright
1958
Johannisnacht
1933
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
1952
The Kreutzer Sonata
1937
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1956
Madame Bluebeard
1931
Reisender ohne Gepäck
1963
Spiritismus
1919
The Mayor of Zalamea
1920
Der Volontär
1918
Orientexpress
1927
Kolibri
1971
Bettler GmbH
1919
Love is Blind
1926
Der Mann von draußen
1961
The Ring of the Empress
1930
His Wife, the Unknown
1923
Musik in Salzburg
1944
Der Veilchenfresser
1926
Tiefland
1923
Die Rache ist mein
1919
Meine 16 Söhne
1956
Die Teufelsbraut
1977
Clown Charly
1918
Detours to Happiness
1939
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
1938
Es kommt ein Tag
1950
Es flüstert die Nacht
1929
Streit um den Knaben Jo
1939
The Second Kiss
1930
Das Blut der Ahnen
1920
Die Räuber
1940