Acting
Lil Dagover
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.
Movies with Lil Dagover
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
Monte Cristo
1929
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922
Destiny
1921
The Standard
1977
Fridericus
1937
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
100 Years of the UFA
2017
The Strange Countess
1961
The Pedestrian
1973
End of the Game
1978
The Final Chord
1936
Vienna 1910
1943
The Bird Seller
1935
Trees die upright
1958
Harakiri
1919
Tartuffe
1926
Ich heirate meine Frau
1934
Bettler GmbH
1919
Boycott
1930
Phantom
1922
Die Frau im Himmel
1920
The Fugitive from Chicago
1934
The White Devil
1930
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
1959
Paradies der alten Damen
1971
Die Räuber
1940
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
1925
Reisender ohne Gepäck
1963
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1919
Kolibri
1971
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1959
Der Veilchenfresser
1926
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
1952
Siedlung Arkadien
1967
Spiritismus
1919
Only a Dancing Girl
1926
Va Banque
1930
The Stars Shine
1938
La Grande Passion
1928
Die Barrings
1955
Die Teufelsbraut
1977
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
1921
Old Song
1930
The Case of Colonel Redl
1931
Der Anwalt des Herzens
1927
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1955
The Girl Irene
1936
Bismarck
1940
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
1923
The Little Residence
1942
The Great Passion
1930
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1940
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
Lady Windermeres Fächer
1935
The Chronicles of the Gray House
1925
Hubertus Castle
1954
Die Rache ist mein
1919
Madame Bluebeard
1931
Glückspilze
1971
Elisabeth of Austria
1931
Professor Sound und die Pille
1971
Congress Dances
1931
Es kommt ein Tag
1950
Die Kwannon von Okadera
1920
Johannisnacht
1933
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
1955
Das Blut der Ahnen
1920
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
1932
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
1938
Clown Charly
1918
Lösegeld für Mylady
1967
The Higher Command
1935
Married by the Stork
1932
Triad
1938
Hotel Royal
1969
His English Wife
1927
Luise Millerin
1922
Rätsel um Beate
1938
Two Brothers
1926
Chased by the Devil
1950
Der Tänzer
1919
The Maelstrom of Paris
1928
Musik in Salzburg
1944
The Secret Courier
1928
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
1948
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1956
Rosen im Herbst
1955
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
1921
Unwiederbringlich
1968
Memento Mori
1975
Königliche Hoheit
1953
Love Is Blind
1926
Es flüstert die Nacht
1929
Meine 16 Söhne
1956
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
1957
Der Mann von draußen
1961
The Mayor of Zalamea
1920
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1920
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1953
Der Volontär
1918
Hungarian Rhapsody
1928
The Ring of the Empress
1930
The Second Kiss
1930
Tiefland
1923
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
1920
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
1934
The Kreutzer Sonata
1937
Phantome des Lebens
1919
Die Ehe
1929
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
1949
Streit um den Knaben Jo
1939
His Wife, the Unknown
1923
There is a woman who will never forget you
1930
Orientexpress
1927
Comedy of the Heart
1924
August der Starke
1936
Detours to Happiness
1939
The Death in the Greenstreet
1921
