Lil Dagover
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.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(Jane)
Es flüstert die Nacht
Phantom
(Marie Starke)
Destiny
(Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien)
The Pedestrian
(Frau Eschenlohr)
The Strange Countess
(Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron)
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
(Sun Priestess Naela)
The Woman from Monte Carlo
(Lottie Corlaix)
Tartuffe
(Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife)
Love is Blind
Monte Cristo
(Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf)
Boycott
(Frau von Generaldirektor Haller)
Tales from the Vienna Woods
(Helene)
Spiritismus
The Final Chord
(Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau)
La Grande Passion
(Sonia de Blich)
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
(Elisabeth Buddenbrook)
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
(Baronin Hermine von Velden)
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
(Elisabeth Buddenbrook)
Es kommt ein Tag
(Madame Mombour)
Congress Dances
(Komtesse)
Königliche Hoheit
(Gräfin Löwenjoul)
Lady Windermeres Fächer
(Mrs. Erlynne)
Fridericus
(Marquise de Pompadour)
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
(Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim)
Hotel Royal
(Maharani von Dungapur)
Hubertus Castle
(Baronin Gundi Kleesberg)
Rosen im Herbst
(Mutter Briest)
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
(Gräfin Waldenberg)
The Standard
(Erzherzogin)
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
(Contessa Celestina Morini)
Chased by the Devil
(Frau Dakar)
Bismarck
(Eugénie)
The Higher Command
(Madame Martin)
Hungarian Rhapsody
(Camilla)
Kleine Residenz
(Herzogin von Lauffenburg)
Eine Frau die weiß, was sie will
(Manon Cavallini)
Rätsel um Beate
(Beate Kaiserling)
Die Barrings
(Thilde von Barring)
The Kreutzer Sonata
(Jelaina Posdnyschew)
Unwiederbringlich
(Prinzessin Maria Eleonore)
The White Devil
(Nelidowa)
Die Räuber
Die Teufelsbraut
Umwege zum Glück
(Hanna Bracht)
Musik in Salzburg
(Ursula Sanden)
Professor Sound und die Pille
(Seine Frau)
Glückspilze
Married by the Stork
(Thea Roland)
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
(Alice Lechaudier)
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
(Barberina Campanini)
Ich heirate meine Frau
(Lisa Behmer)
The Bird Seller
(Die Kurfürstin)
Vienna 1910
(Maria Anschütz)
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
(Margot von Korff)
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
(Florentine Alvensleben)
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
(Kaiserin Elisabeth)
Reisender ohne Gepäck
(Herzogin)
The Fugitive from Chicago
(Eveline)
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
(Maja)
Old Song
(Baronin Eggedy)
There is a woman who will never forget you
(Tilly Ferrantes)
The Secret Courier
(Mme. Thérèse de Renal)
Dreiklang
(Cornelia Contarini)
Trees die upright
(Großmutter)
Paradies der alten Damen
(Leonore Feller)
Lösegeld für Mylady
(Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers)
The Chronicles of the Gray House
(Bärbe)
The Death in the Greenstreet
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
(Malatti)
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
(Malatti)
The Great Passion
(Herself)
The Girl Irene
(Jennifer Lawrence)
Two Brothers
(Esther)
The Second Kiss
(Empress Marie Theresa)
Memento Mori
(Charmian Colston)
Elisabeth of Austria
(Elisabeth von Österreich)
The Stars Shine
(Gast)
Phantome des Lebens
The Maelstrom of Paris
Comedy of the Heart
(Gerda Werska)
End of the Game
(Gastmann's Mother)
Harakiri
(O-Take-San)
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
(Toni)
August der Starke
(Gräfin Aurore Königsmark)
Der Anwalt des Herzens
(June Orchard)
Johannisnacht
(Lisa Lers)
Kolibri
(Anna Maria Hansen)
Madame Bluebeard
(Frau Erika Dankwarth)
Streit um den Knaben Jo
(Leonine Brackwieser)
Tiefland
(Martha)
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
(Lamberta)
Orientexpress
(Beate von Morton)
Der Veilchenfresser
(Melitta von Arthof)
Only a Dancing Girl
(Marie Berner)
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
(Tina Bermonte)
Meine 16 Söhne
(Frau Senator Giselius)
The Mayor of Zalamea
(Isabel)
His English Wife
(Cathleen Paget)
Der Mann von draußen
(Mrs.Gillis)
Siedlung Arkadien
(Frau Assmann)
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
(Malatti)
Clown Charly
Die Kwannon von Okadera
(Kwannon von Okadera)
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
(Gabriela Farnese/Concha)
The Ring of the Empress
(Catherine the Great)
Der Volontär
Das Blut der Ahnen
Die Frau im Himmel
(Tatjana)
Luise Millerin
Die Ehe
His Wife, the Unknown
(Eva)
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
(Self)
Der Tänzer
(Andreas Mother)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
((uncredited))
100 Years of the UFA
(Self - Actress (archive footage))
Die Rache ist mein
Bettler GmbH
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
(Mercédès)
The Case of Colonel Redl
(Vera Nikolayevna)
Va Banque
(Harriet Williams)
Seniorenclub
(Self)
Blick zurück im Film
(Self)
Scene of the Crime
(Mutter Koenen)
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
(Self)
German Film Award
(Self)
Bambi
(Self)