Acting
Lil Dagover
Born Sep 29, 1887 · Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia] · Died Jan 23, 1980
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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Acting
100 Years of the UFA
2017
Documentary · History · TV Movie
Otto – The Series
1995
Comedy
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
Drama
The Standard
1977
War · Action · Romance
End of the Game
1975
Drama · Crime · Mystery
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
Documentary
The Pedestrian
1973
Drama
Professor Sound und die Pille
1971
Comedy
Scene of the Crime
1970
Drama · Crime
Hotel Royal
1969
Drama · Crime
The Strange Countess
1961
Crime
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1959
Drama · History
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
1959
Drama · History
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
1957
Romance · Music
Meine 16 Söhne
1956
Drama
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1956
History · Drama · Romance
Die Barrings
1955
Drama
Rosen im Herbst
1955
Drama
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
1955
Romance · Comedy
Hubertus Castle
1954
Drama
Königliche Hoheit
1953
Drama · Romance
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1953
Drama · Romance · Crime
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
1952
Drama
Chased by the Devil
1950
Crime · Drama
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
1949
Comedy
Musik in Salzburg
1944
Comedy
The Little Residence
1942
Comedy
Bismarck
1940
Drama
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1940
Drama
Streit um den Knaben Jo
1939
Drama
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
1938
Drama
The Stars Shine
1938
Music
Rätsel um Beate
1938
Drama
Fridericus
1937
History · Drama · War
The Final Chord
1936
Music · Drama
The Girl Irene
1936
Drama
The Higher Command
1935
Drama
Lady Windermeres Fächer
1935
The Bird Seller
1935
Comedy · Romance
Ich heirate meine Frau
1934
Comedy
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
1934
Romance · Comedy · Music
The Fugitive from Chicago
1934
Adventure · Comedy · Crime
Johannisnacht
1933
Comedy · Romance
Married by the Stork
1932
Comedy
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
1932
Comedy · History
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
Romance · Drama · War
Madame Bluebeard
1931
Comedy · Drama
Congress Dances
1931
History · Comedy
Elisabeth of Austria
1931
History · Drama
The Case of Colonel Redl
1931
Drama
Boycott
1930
Drama
Old Song
1930
Drama · Romance
Va Banque
1930
The Great Desire
1930
Comedy
The Second Kiss
1930
Romance · Comedy · Music
There is a woman who will never forget you
1930
Drama
The Ring of the Empress
1930
Drama · History
Monte Cristo
1929
Adventure
Die Ehe
1929
Drama · Documentary
La Grande Passion
1928
Comedy · Drama
The Secret Courier
1928
Adventure · Drama
The Maelstrom of Paris
1928
Drama
Hungarian Rhapsody
1928
Drama · Romance
Orientexpress
1927
Drama
Der Anwalt des Herzens
1927
Drama
His English Wife
1927
Romance · Drama
Only a Dancing Girl
1926
Romance · Drama
Love Is Blind
1926
Tartuffe
1926
Drama · Comedy
The Chronicles of the Gray House
1925
History · Drama
Comedy of the Heart
1924
Romance
His Wife, the Unknown
1923
Drama · Romance
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
1923
Drama
Phantom
1922
Drama · Romance · Fantasy
Luise Millerin
1922
Drama
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922
Crime · Thriller
The Death in the Greenstreet
1921
Crime
Destiny
1921
Drama · Fantasy · Thriller
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
1921
Drama
Die Kwannon von Okadera
1920
Drama
Das Blut der Ahnen
1920
Drama
The Mayor of Zalamea
1920
Drama
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1920
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
1920
Adventure
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
Drama · Horror · Thriller
Spiritismus
1919
Mystery
Harakiri
1919
Drama
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1919
Adventure · Crime
The Dancer
1919
Drama
Phantome des Lebens
1919
Clown Charly
1918