Lil Dagover
Born September 29, 1887 (Age: 138)
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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.
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
End of the Game
1978
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as Gastmann's Mother
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Age: 90
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
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as Self
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Age: 86
The Pedestrian
1973
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as Frau Eschenlohr
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Age: 85
Hotel Royal
1969
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as Maharani von Dungapur
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Age: 82
No Image
Reisender ohne Gepäck
1963
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as Herzogin
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Age: 75
The Strange Countess
1961
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as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
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Age: 74
No Image
Der Mann von draußen
1961
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as Mrs.Gillis
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Age: 73
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1959
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as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
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Age: 72
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
1959
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as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
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Age: 72
No Image
Trees die upright
1958
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as Großmutter
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Age: 70
Meine 16 Söhne
1956
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as Frau Senator Giselius
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Age: 68
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1956
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as Kaiserin Elisabeth
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Age: 68
Die Barrings
1955
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as Thilde von Barring
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Age: 68
Rosen im Herbst
1955
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as Mutter Briest
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Age: 67
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
1955
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as Baronin Hermine von Velden
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Age: 67
No Image
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1955
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as Alice Lechaudier
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Age: 67
Hubertus Castle
1954
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as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
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Age: 66
Königliche Hoheit
1953
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as Gräfin Löwenjoul
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Age: 66
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1953
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as Gräfin Waldenberg
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Age: 66
Chased by the Devil
1950
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as Frau Dakar
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Age: 63
No Image
Es kommt ein Tag
1950
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as Madame Mombour
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Age: 63
Kleine Residenz
1942
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as Herzogin von Lauffenburg
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Age: 54
Married by the Stork
1932
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as Thea Roland
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Age: 45
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
1932
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as Barberina Campanini
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Age: 44
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
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as Lottie Corlaix
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Age: 44
Madame Bluebeard
1931
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as Frau Erika Dankwarth
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Age: 44
Congress Dances
1931
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as Countess
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Age: 44
The Congress Dances
1931
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as Komtesse
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Age: 44
Elisabeth of Austria
1931
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as Elisabeth von Österreich
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Age: 43
The Case of Colonel Redl
1931
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as Vera Nikolayevna
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Age: 43
Boycott
1930
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as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
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Age: 43
Old Song
1930
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as Baronin Eggedy
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Age: 43
Va Banque
1930
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as Harriet Williams
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Age: 42
The Great Passion
1930
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as Herself
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Age: 42
The Second Kiss
1930
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as Empress Marie Theresa
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Age: 42
There is a woman who will never forget you
1930
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as Tilly Ferrantes
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Age: 42
No Image
The White Devil
1930
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as Nelidowa
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Age: 42
The Ring of the Empress
1930
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as Catherine the Great
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Age: 42
Clown Charly
1918
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as
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Age: 30