Lil Dagover
Known for Acting · 127 credits
- Born
- 1887-09-29
- Died
- 1980-01-23
- Place of birth
- Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
- Also known as
- Лиль Даговер · Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert
Biography
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.
Known For
TV Shows (7)
Scene of the Crime
1970
as Mutter Koenen
Bambi
1948
as Self
German Film Award
1951
as Self
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
1964
as Self
Seniorenclub
1968
as Self
Otto – The Series
1995
as Verschiedene
Blick zurück im Film
1963
as Self
Movies (120)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
as Jane
Phantom
1922
as Marie Starke
Memento Mori
1975
as Charmian Colston
Fridericus
1937
as Marquise de Pompadour
Siedlung Arkadien
1967
as Frau Assmann
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922
as (uncredited)
Luise Millerin
1922
End of the Game
1978
as Gastmann's Mother
Glückspilze
1971
Destiny
1921
as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
The Strange Countess
1961
as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
Vienna 1910
1943
as Maria Anschütz
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1919
as Sun Priestess Naela
Königliche Hoheit
1953
as Gräfin Löwenjoul
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
as Lottie Corlaix
The Standard
1977
as Erzherzogin
Tartuffe
1926
as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
Harakiri
1919
as O-Take-San
The Chronicles of the Gray House
1925
as Bärbe
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
as Self
The White Devil
1930
as Nelidowa
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1955
as Alice Lechaudier
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
as Helene
100 Years of the UFA
2017
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
1959
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
1934
as Manon Cavallini
The Fugitive from Chicago
1934
as Eveline
Hungarian Rhapsody
1928
as Camilla
Bismarck
1940
as Eugénie
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1953
as Gräfin Waldenberg
Congress Dances
1931
as Komtesse
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
1932
as Barberina Campanini
The Pedestrian
1973
as Frau Eschenlohr
Kolibri
1971
as Anna Maria Hansen
Chased by the Devil
1950
as Frau Dakar
August der Starke
1936
as Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
Boycott
1930
as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
The Great Passion
1930
as Herself
Die Barrings
1955
as Thilde von Barring
There is a woman who will never forget you
1930
as Tilly Ferrantes
Two Brothers
1926
as Esther
The Kreutzer Sonata
1937
as Jelaina Posdnyschew
Die Räuber
1940
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
1955
as Baronin Hermine von Velden
The Final Chord
1936
as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
Va Banque
1930
as Harriet Williams
Elisabeth of Austria
1931
as Elisabeth von Österreich
His Wife, the Unknown
1923
as Eva
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1940
as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Der Veilchenfresser
1926
as Melitta von Arthof
Monte Cristo
1929
as Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
Lady Windermeres Fächer
1935
as Mrs. Erlynne
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
1938
as Maja
The Stars Shine
1938
as Gast
Die Teufelsbraut
1977
Old Song
1930
as Baronin Eggedy
Comedy of the Heart
1924
as Gerda Werska
Married by the Stork
1932
as Thea Roland
Professor Sound und die Pille
1971
as Seine Frau
Die Frau im Himmel
1920
as Tatjana
Die Ehe
1929
The Death in the Greenstreet
1921
Hotel Royal
1969
as Maharani von Dungapur
Die Rache ist mein
1919
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
1925
as Toni
The Girl Irene
1936
as Jennifer Lawrence
Rosen im Herbst
1955
as Mutter Briest
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
1921
as Gabriela Farnese/Concha
Musik in Salzburg
1944
as Ursula Sanden
Unwiederbringlich
1968
as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
Die Kwannon von Okadera
1920
as Kwannon von Okadera
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
1920
as Malatti
His English Wife
1927
as Cathleen Paget
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
1921
as Malatti
The Secret Courier
1928
as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
Detours to Happiness
1939
as Hanna Bracht
Ich heirate meine Frau
1934
as Lisa Behmer
Trees die upright
1958
as Großmutter
The Bird Seller
1935
as Die Kurfürstin
The Mayor of Zalamea
1920
as Isabel
Lösegeld für Mylady
1967
as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
Only a Dancing Girl
1926
as Marie Berner
La Grande Passion
1928
as Sonia de Blich
Spiritismus
1919
The Little Residence
1942
as Herzogin von Lauffenburg
Tiefland
1923
as Martha
Paradies der alten Damen
1971
as Leonore Feller
Der Volontär
1918
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
1948
as Margot von Korff
Streit um den Knaben Jo
1939
as Leonine Brackwieser
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1959
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Der Tänzer
1919
as Andreas Mother
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
1923
as Tina Bermonte
Der Anwalt des Herzens
1927
as June Orchard
Rätsel um Beate
1938
as Beate Kaiserling
Orientexpress
1927
as Beate von Morton
The Higher Command
1935
as Madame Martin
Reisender ohne Gepäck
1963
as Herzogin
Phantome des Lebens
1919
Love is Blind
1926
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
1957
as Contessa Celestina Morini
Das Blut der Ahnen
1920
Madame Bluebeard
1931
as Frau Erika Dankwarth
The Case of Colonel Redl
1931
as Vera Nikolayevna
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1920
as Malatti
Bettler GmbH
1919
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
1949
as Florentine Alvensleben
Johannisnacht
1933
as Lisa Lers
Der Mann von draußen
1961
as Mrs.Gillis
Hubertus Castle
1954
as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
The Maelstrom of Paris
1928
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1956
as Kaiserin Elisabeth
The Second Kiss
1930
as Empress Marie Theresa
The Ring of the Empress
1930
as Catherine the Great
Meine 16 Söhne
1956
as Frau Senator Giselius
Triad
1938
as Cornelia Contarini
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
1952
as Lamberta
Es flüstert die Nacht
1929
Clown Charly
1918
Es kommt ein Tag
1950
as Madame Mombour
About 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 expres… With 127 credits spanning from 1918 to 2017, Lil Dagover has appeared in 120 films and 7 TV shows.
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- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) — as Jane
- Phantom (1922) — as Marie Starke
- Memento Mori (1975) — as Charmian Colston
- Fridericus (1937) — as Marquise de Pompadour
- Siedlung Arkadien (1967) — as Frau Assmann
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