Acting · Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia] · Born September 29, 1887
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.
Movie100 Years of the UFA
2017
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
TVOtto – The Series
1995
as Verschiedene
MovieTales from the Vienna Woods
1979
as Helene
MovieEnd of the Game
1978
as Gastmann's Mother
MovieThe Standard
1977
as Erzherzogin
Die Teufelsbraut
1977
Memento Mori
1975
as Charmian Colston
MovieDer große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
as Self
MovieThe Pedestrian
1973
as Frau Eschenlohr
Glückspilze
1971
Kolibri
1971
as Anna Maria Hansen
Paradies der alten Damen
1971
as Leonore Feller
MovieProfessor Sound und die Pille
1971
as Seine Frau
TVScene of the Crime
1970
as Mutter Koenen
MovieHotel Royal
1969
as Maharani von Dungapur
Seniorenclub
1968
as Self
Unwiederbringlich
1968
as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
Lösegeld für Mylady
1967
as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
Siedlung Arkadien
1967
as Frau Assmann
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
1964
as Self
Blick zurück im Film
1963
as Self
Reisender ohne Gepäck
1963
as Herzogin
MovieThe Strange Countess
1961
as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
Der Mann von draußen
1961
as Mrs.Gillis
MovieBuddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1959
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
MovieBuddenbrooks - 1. Teil
1959
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Trees die upright
1958
as Großmutter
MovieUnter Palmen am blauen Meer
1957
as Contessa Celestina Morini
MovieMeine 16 Söhne
1956
as Frau Senator Giselius
MovieKronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1956
as Kaiserin Elisabeth
MovieDie Barrings
1955
as Thilde von Barring
MovieRosen im Herbst
1955
as Mutter Briest
MovieDer Fischer vom Heiligensee
1955
as Baronin Hermine von Velden
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1955
as Alice Lechaudier
MovieHubertus Castle
1954
as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
MovieKönigliche Hoheit
1953
as Gräfin Löwenjoul
MovieRed Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1953
as Gräfin Waldenberg
MovieDas Geheimnis vom Bergsee
1952
as Lamberta
German Film Award
1951
as Self
MovieChased by the Devil
1950
as Frau Dakar
Es kommt ein Tag
1950
as Madame Mombour
MovieMan spielt nicht mit der Liebe
1949
as Florentine Alvensleben
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
1948
as Margot von Korff
TVBambi
1948
as Self
MovieMusik in Salzburg
1944
as Ursula Sanden
Vienna 1910
1943
as Maria Anschütz
MovieThe Little Residence
1942
as Herzogin von Lauffenburg
MovieBismarck
1940
as Eugénie
MovieFriedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1940
as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Die Räuber
1940
MovieStreit um den Knaben Jo
1939
as Leonine Brackwieser
Detours to Happiness
1939
as Hanna Bracht
MovieMaja zwischen zwei Ehen
1938
as Maja
Triad
1938
as Cornelia Contarini
MovieThe Stars Shine
1938
as Gast
MovieRätsel um Beate
1938
as Beate Kaiserling
The Kreutzer Sonata
1937
as Jelaina Posdnyschew
MovieFridericus
1937
as Marquise de Pompadour
MovieThe Final Chord
1936
as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
August der Starke
1936
as Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
MovieThe Girl Irene
1936
as Jennifer Lawrence
MovieThe Higher Command
1935
as Madame Martin
MovieLady Windermeres Fächer
1935
as Mrs. Erlynne
MovieThe Bird Seller
1935
as Die Kurfürstin
MovieIch heirate meine Frau
1934
as Lisa Behmer
MovieA Woman Who Knows What She Wants
1934
as Manon Cavallini
MovieThe Fugitive from Chicago
1934
as Eveline
MovieJohannisnacht
1933
as Lisa Lers
MovieMarried by the Stork
1932
as Thea Roland
MovieBarbarina, the King's Dancer
1932
as Barberina Campanini
MovieThe Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
as Lottie Corlaix
MovieMadame Bluebeard
1931
as Frau Erika Dankwarth
MovieCongress Dances
1931
as Komtesse
MovieElisabeth of Austria
1931
as Elisabeth von Österreich
MovieThe Case of Colonel Redl
1931
as Vera Nikolayevna
MovieBoycott
1930
as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
MovieOld Song
1930
as Baronin Eggedy
MovieVa Banque
1930
as Harriet Williams
MovieThe Great Passion
1930
as Herself
MovieThe Second Kiss
1930
as Empress Marie Theresa
MovieThere is a woman who will never forget you
1930
as Tilly Ferrantes
The White Devil
1930
as Nelidowa
MovieThe Ring of the Empress
1930
as Catherine the Great
Es flüstert die Nacht
1929
MovieMonte Cristo
1929
as Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
MovieDie Ehe
1929
MovieLa Grande Passion
1928
as Sonia de Blich
MovieThe Secret Courier
1928
as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
MovieThe Maelstrom of Paris
1928
MovieHungarian Rhapsody
1928
as Camilla
MovieOrientexpress
1927
as Beate von Morton
MovieDer Anwalt des Herzens
1927
as June Orchard
MovieHis English Wife
1927
as Cathleen Paget
MovieOnly a Dancing Girl
1926
as Marie Berner
Der Veilchenfresser
1926
as Melitta von Arthof
MovieLove Is Blind
1926
Two Brothers
1926
as Esther
MovieTartuffe
1926
as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
1925
as Toni
MovieThe Chronicles of the Gray House
1925
as Bärbe
MovieComedy of the Heart
1924
as Gerda Werska
MovieHis Wife, the Unknown
1923
as Eva
MovieDie Prinzessin Suwarin
1923
as Tina Bermonte
Tiefland
1923
as Martha
MoviePhantom
1922
as Marie Starke
MovieLuise Millerin
1922
MovieDr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922
as (uncredited)
MovieThe Death in the Greenstreet
1921
MovieDestiny
1921
as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
Toteninsel
1921
MovieDas Geheimnis von Bombay
1921
as Gabriela Farnese/Concha
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
1921
as Malatti
MovieDie Kwannon von Okadera
1920
as Kwannon von Okadera
MovieDas Blut der Ahnen
1920
MovieThe Mayor of Zalamea
1920
as Isabel
MovieDie Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1920
as Malatti
MovieDie Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
1920
as Malatti
Die Frau im Himmel
1920
as Tatjana
MovieThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
as Jane
MovieSpiritismus
1919
MovieHarakiri
1919
as O-Take-San
MovieThe Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1919
as Sun Priestess Naela
MovieDer Tänzer
1919
as Andreas Mother
MoviePhantome des Lebens
1919
Bettler GmbH
1919
Die Rache ist mein
1919
MovieClown Charly
1918
Der Volontär
1918
