Lil Dagover

Known for ActingBorn 1887-09-29Died 1980-01-23Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]

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.Read more

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Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen

Der Mann von draußen

August der Starke

Lady Windermeres Fächer

Ich heirate meine Frau

Orientexpress

His English Wife

Love is Blind

Tiefland

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

The Mayor of Zalamea

Das Blut der Ahnen

Die Rache ist mein

Memento Mori

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt

Trees die upright

Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary

Bambi

Rätsel um Beate

A Woman Who Knows What She Wants

The Second Kiss

Es flüstert die Nacht

Die Prinzessin Suwarin

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

Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil

Die Frau im Himmel

Hotel Royal

Otto – The Series

Unwiederbringlich

Unter Palmen am blauen Meer

Meine 16 Söhne

Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe

Königliche Hoheit

Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe

Musik in Salzburg

Streit um den Knaben Jo

Maja zwischen zwei Ehen

Triad

Married by the Stork

Madame Bluebeard

The Case of Colonel Redl

Old Song

Die Ehe

La Grande Passion

Hungarian Rhapsody

The Secret Courier

Only a Dancing Girl

Der Demütige und die Tänzerin