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Acting
Lil Dagover
Also known as: Лиль Даговер, Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert
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.
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 29, 1887
Day of Death
January 23, 1980
Age at Death
92 years old
Place of Birth
Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
Popularity Score
0.4
Filmography
100 Years of the UFA
Self - Actress (archive footage)
2017Movie
Otto – The Series
Verschiedene
1995TV
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Helene
1979Movie
The Standard
Erzherzogin
1977Movie
Die Teufelsbraut
1977Movie
Memento Mori
Charmian Colston
1975Movie
End of the Game
Gastmann's Mother
1975Movie
The Pedestrian
Frau Eschenlohr
1973Movie
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Self
1973Movie
Professor Sound und die Pille
Seine Frau
1971Movie
Glückspilze
1971Movie
Paradies der alten Damen
Leonore Feller
1971Movie
Kolibri
Anna Maria Hansen
1971Movie
Scene of the Crime
Mutter Koenen
1970TV
Hotel Royal
Maharani von Dungapur
1969Movie
Unwiederbringlich
Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
1968Movie
Seniorenclub
Self
1968TV
Lösegeld für Mylady
Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
1967Movie
Siedlung Arkadien
Frau Assmann
1967Movie
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
Self
1964TV
Reisender ohne Gepäck
Herzogin
1963Movie
Blick zurück im Film
Self
1963TV
The Strange Countess
Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
1961Movie
Der Mann von draußen
Mrs.Gillis
1961Movie
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
Elisabeth Buddenbrook
1959Movie
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
Elisabeth Buddenbrook
1959Movie
Trees die upright
Großmutter
1958Movie
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
Contessa Celestina Morini
1957Movie
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
Kaiserin Elisabeth
1956Movie
Meine 16 Söhne
Frau Senator Giselius
1956Movie
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
Baronin Hermine von Velden
1955Movie
Rosen im Herbst
Mutter Briest
1955Movie
Die Barrings
Thilde von Barring
1955Movie
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
Alice Lechaudier
1955Movie
Hubertus Castle
Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
1954Movie
Königliche Hoheit
Gräfin Löwenjoul
1953Movie
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
Gräfin Waldenberg
1953Movie
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
Lamberta
1952Movie
German Film Award
Self
1951TV
Es kommt ein Tag
Madame Mombour
1950Movie
Chased by the Devil
Frau Dakar
1950Movie
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
Florentine Alvensleben
1949Movie
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
Margot von Korff
1948Movie
Bambi
Self
1948TV
Musik in Salzburg
Ursula Sanden
1944Movie
Vienna 1910
Maria Anschütz
1943Movie
The Little Residence
Herzogin von Lauffenburg
1942Movie
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
1940Movie
Bismarck
Eugénie
1940Movie
Die Räuber
1940Movie
Detours to Happiness
Hanna Bracht
1939Movie
Streit um den Knaben Jo
Leonine Brackwieser
1939Movie
Rätsel um Beate
Beate Kaiserling
1938Movie
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
Maja
1938Movie
Triad
Cornelia Contarini
1938Movie
The Stars Shine
Gast
1938Movie
Fridericus
Marquise de Pompadour
1937Movie
The Kreutzer Sonata
Jelaina Posdnyschew
1937Movie
The Final Chord
Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
1936Movie
The Girl Irene
Jennifer Lawrence
1936Movie
August der Starke
Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
1936Movie
Lady Windermeres Fächer
Mrs. Erlynne
1935Movie
The Higher Command
Madame Martin
1935Movie
The Bird Seller
Die Kurfürstin
1935Movie
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
Manon Cavallini
1934Movie
Ich heirate meine Frau
Lisa Behmer
1934Movie
The Fugitive from Chicago
Eveline
1934Movie
Johannisnacht
Lisa Lers
1933Movie
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Lottie Corlaix
1932Movie
Married by the Stork
Thea Roland
1932Movie
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
Barberina Campanini
1932Movie
Congress Dances
Komtesse
1931Movie
Elisabeth of Austria
Elisabeth von Österreich
1931Movie
Madame Bluebeard
Frau Erika Dankwarth
1931Movie
The Case of Colonel Redl
Vera Nikolayevna
1931Movie
Boycott
Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
1930Movie
The White Devil
Nelidowa
1930Movie
Old Song
Baronin Eggedy
1930Movie
There is a woman who will never forget you
Tilly Ferrantes
1930Movie
The Great Passion
Herself
1930Movie
The Second Kiss
Empress Marie Theresa
1930Movie
The Ring of the Empress
Catherine the Great
1930Movie
Va Banque
Harriet Williams
1930Movie
Es flüstert die Nacht
1929Movie
Monte Cristo
Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
1929Movie
Die Ehe
1929Movie
La Grande Passion
Sonia de Blich
1928Movie
Hungarian Rhapsody
Camilla
1928Movie
The Secret Courier
Mme. Thérèse de Renal
1928Movie
The Maelstrom of Paris
1928Movie
Der Anwalt des Herzens
June Orchard
1927Movie
Orientexpress
Beate von Morton
1927Movie
His English Wife
Cathleen Paget
1927Movie
Tartuffe
Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
1926Movie
Love Is Blind
1926Movie
Two Brothers
Esther
1926Movie
Der Veilchenfresser
Melitta von Arthof
1926Movie
Only a Dancing Girl
Marie Berner
1926Movie
The Chronicles of the Gray House
Bärbe
1925Movie
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
Toni
1925Movie
Comedy of the Heart
Gerda Werska
1924Movie
Tiefland
Martha
1923Movie
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
Tina Bermonte
1923Movie
His Wife, the Unknown
Eva
1923Movie
Phantom
Marie Starke
1922Movie
Luise Millerin
1922Movie
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
(uncredited)
1922Movie
Destiny
Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
1921Movie
The Death in the Greenstreet
1921Movie
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
Malatti
1921Movie
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
Gabriela Farnese/Concha
1921Movie
Toteninsel
1921Movie
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Jane
1920Movie
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
Malatti
1920Movie
The Mayor of Zalamea
Isabel
1920Movie
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
Malatti
1920Movie
Die Kwannon von Okadera
Kwannon von Okadera
1920Movie
Das Blut der Ahnen
1920Movie
Die Frau im Himmel
Tatjana
1920Movie
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
Sun Priestess Naela
1919Movie
Spiritismus
1919Movie
Phantome des Lebens
1919Movie
Harakiri
O-Take-San
1919Movie
Der Tänzer
Andreas Mother
1919Movie
Die Rache ist mein
1919Movie
Bettler GmbH
1919Movie
Clown Charly
1918Movie
Der Volontär
1918Movie