Lil Dagover
Acting
- Born:
- 1887-09-29
- Died:
- 1980-01-23
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
100 Years of the UFA
Otto – The Series
Tales from the Vienna Woods
The Standard
Die Teufelsbraut
End of the Game
Memento Mori
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
The Pedestrian
Glückspilze
Kolibri
Paradies der alten Damen
Professor Sound und die Pille
Scene of the Crime
Hotel Royal
Seniorenclub
Unwiederbringlich
Lösegeld für Mylady
Siedlung Arkadien
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
Blick zurück im Film
Reisender ohne Gepäck
The Strange Countess
Der Mann von draußen
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
Trees die upright
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
Meine 16 Söhne
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
Die Barrings
Rosen im Herbst
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
Hubertus Castle
Königliche Hoheit
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
German Film Award
Chased by the Devil
Es kommt ein Tag
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
Bambi
Musik in Salzburg
Vienna 1910
The Little Residence
Bismarck
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
Die Räuber
Streit um den Knaben Jo
Detours to Happiness
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
Triad
The Stars Shine
Rätsel um Beate
The Kreutzer Sonata
Fridericus
The Final Chord
August der Starke
The Girl Irene
The Higher Command
Lady Windermeres Fächer
The Bird Seller
Ich heirate meine Frau
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
The Fugitive from Chicago
Johannisnacht
Married by the Stork
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Madame Bluebeard
Congress Dances
Elisabeth of Austria
The Case of Colonel Redl
Boycott
Old Song
Va Banque
The Great Desire
The Second Kiss
There is a woman who will never forget you
The White Devil
The Ring of the Empress
Es flüstert die Nacht
Monte Cristo
Die Ehe
La Grande Passion
The Secret Courier
The Maelstrom of Paris
Hungarian Rhapsody
Orientexpress
Der Anwalt des Herzens
His English Wife
Only a Dancing Girl
Der Veilchenfresser
Love Is Blind
Two Brothers
Tartuffe
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
The Chronicles of the Gray House
Comedy of the Heart
His Wife, the Unknown
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
Tiefland
Phantom
Luise Millerin
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
The Death in the Greenstreet
Destiny
Toteninsel
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
Die Kwannon von Okadera
Das Blut der Ahnen
The Mayor of Zalamea
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
Die Frau im Himmel
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Spiritismus
Harakiri
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
The Dancer
Phantome des Lebens
Bettler GmbH
Die Rache ist mein
Clown Charly
Der Volontär