Lil Dagover
Acting
Born 1887-09-29
Died 1980-01-23
Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
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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
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Acting
54 credits
Scene of the Crime
Bambi
German Film Award
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
Monte Cristo
The Bird Seller
Destiny
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Otto – The Series
The Fugitive from Chicago
Seniorenclub
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
Harakiri
Vienna 1910
The White Devil
Trees die upright
Blick zurück im Film
Fridericus
End of the Game
The Little Residence
Der Veilchenfresser
Boycott
Siedlung Arkadien
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
Detours to Happiness
Phantom
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
The Standard
The Case of Colonel Redl
Kolibri
Reisender ohne Gepäck
Va Banque
La Grande Passion
Tartuffe
100 Years of the UFA
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
The Strange Countess
Ich heirate meine Frau
Der Anwalt des Herzens
Tales from the Vienna Woods
The Final Chord
Old Song
Congress Dances
Madame Bluebeard
The Great Passion
Hungarian Rhapsody
Es kommt ein Tag
Only a Dancing Girl
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
The Chronicles of the Gray House
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