Lil Dagover
Acting
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 Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
as Sun Priestess Naela
Age 32 (now 92)
100 Years of the UFA
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Age 129 (now 92)
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self
Age 86 (now 92)
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
as Contessa Celestina Morini
Age 69 (now 92)
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
as Kaiserin Elisabeth
Age 68 (now 92)
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
as Baronin Hermine von Velden
Age 67 (now 92)
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
as Gräfin Waldenberg
Age 66 (now 92)
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
as Florentine Alvensleben
Age 62 (now 92)Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
as Margot von Korff
Age 61 (now 92)
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Age 53 (now 92)
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
as Manon Cavallini
Age 46 (now 92)
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
as Barberina Campanini
Age 44 (now 92)
There is a woman who will never forget you
as Tilly Ferrantes
Age 42 (now 92)
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
as Gabriela Farnese/Concha
Age 33 (now 92)Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
as Malatti
Age 33 (now 92)
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
as Malatti
Age 33 (now 92)
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
as Malatti
Age 33 (now 92)
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
as Sun Priestess Naela
Age 32 (now 92)
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
as Self
Age 76 (now 92)
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Also Known As
Лиль Даговер, Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert
IMDB
nm0196820