Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 29, 1887
Died
Jan 23, 1980
Place of Birth
Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
Credits
128 titles
Lil Dagover
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.
Known For
Filmography
100 Years of the UFA
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Otto – The Series
Verschiedene
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Helene
The Standard
Erzherzogin
Die Teufelsbraut
End of the Game
Gastmann's Mother
Memento Mori
Charmian Colston
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Self
The Pedestrian
Frau Eschenlohr
Glückspilze
Kolibri
Anna Maria Hansen
Paradies der alten Damen
Leonore Feller
Professor Sound und die Pille
Seine Frau
Scene of the Crime
Mutter Koenen
Hotel Royal
Maharani von Dungapur
Seniorenclub
Self
Unwiederbringlich
Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
Lösegeld für Mylady
Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
Siedlung Arkadien
Frau Assmann
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
Self
Blick zurück im Film
Self
Reisender ohne Gepäck
Herzogin
The Strange Countess
Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
Der Mann von draußen
Mrs.Gillis
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Trees die upright
Großmutter
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
Contessa Celestina Morini
Meine 16 Söhne
Frau Senator Giselius
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
Kaiserin Elisabeth
Die Barrings
Thilde von Barring
Rosen im Herbst
Mutter Briest
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
Baronin Hermine von Velden
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
Alice Lechaudier
Hubertus Castle
Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
Königliche Hoheit
Gräfin Löwenjoul
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
Gräfin Waldenberg
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
Lamberta
German Film Award
Self
Chased by the Devil
Frau Dakar
Es kommt ein Tag
Madame Mombour
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
Florentine Alvensleben
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
Margot von Korff
Bambi
Self
Musik in Salzburg
Ursula Sanden
Vienna 1910
Maria Anschütz
The Little Residence
Herzogin von Lauffenburg
Bismarck
Eugénie
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Die Räuber