Acting
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 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.
Filmography
100 Years of the UFA
Film · 2017
Otto – The Series
Series · 1995
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Film · 1979
The Standard
Film · 1977
Die Teufelsbraut
Film · 1977
Memento Mori
Film · 1975
End of the Game
Film · 1975
The Pedestrian
Film · 1973
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Film · 1973
Professor Sound und die Pille
Film · 1971
Glückspilze
Film · 1971
Paradies der alten Damen
Film · 1971
Kolibri
Film · 1971
Scene of the Crime
Series · 1970
Hotel Royal
Film · 1969
Unwiederbringlich
Film · 1968
Seniorenclub
Series · 1968
Lösegeld für Mylady
Film · 1967
Siedlung Arkadien
Film · 1967
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
Series · 1964
Reisender ohne Gepäck
Film · 1963
Blick zurück im Film
Series · 1963
The Strange Countess
Film · 1961
Der Mann von draußen
Film · 1961
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
Film · 1959
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
Film · 1959
Trees die upright
Film · 1958
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
Film · 1957
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
Film · 1956
Meine 16 Söhne
Film · 1956
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
Film · 1955
Rosen im Herbst
Film · 1955
Die Barrings
Film · 1955
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
Film · 1955
Hubertus Castle
Film · 1954
Königliche Hoheit
Film · 1953
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
Film · 1953
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
Film · 1952
German Film Award
Series · 1951
Es kommt ein Tag
Film · 1950
Chased by the Devil
Film · 1950
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
Film · 1949
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
Film · 1948
Bambi
Series · 1948
Musik in Salzburg
Film · 1944
Vienna 1910
Film · 1943
The Little Residence
Film · 1942
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
Film · 1940
Bismarck
Film · 1940
Die Räuber
Film · 1940
Detours to Happiness
Film · 1939
Streit um den Knaben Jo
Film · 1939
Rätsel um Beate
Film · 1938
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
Film · 1938
Triad
Film · 1938
The Stars Shine
Film · 1938
Fridericus
Film · 1937
The Kreutzer Sonata
Film · 1937
The Final Chord
Film · 1936
The Girl Irene
Film · 1936
August der Starke
Film · 1936
Lady Windermeres Fächer
Film · 1935
The Higher Command
Film · 1935
The Bird Seller
Film · 1935
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
Film · 1934
Ich heirate meine Frau
Film · 1934
The Fugitive from Chicago
Film · 1934
Johannisnacht
Film · 1933
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Film · 1932
Married by the Stork
Film · 1932
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
Film · 1932
Congress Dances
Film · 1931
Elisabeth of Austria
Film · 1931
Madame Bluebeard
Film · 1931
The Case of Colonel Redl
Film · 1931
Boycott
Film · 1930
The White Devil
Film · 1930
Old Song
Film · 1930
There is a woman who will never forget you
Film · 1930
The Great Desire
Film · 1930
The Second Kiss
Film · 1930
The Ring of the Empress
Film · 1930
Va Banque
Film · 1930
Es flüstert die Nacht
Film · 1929
Monte Cristo
Film · 1929
Die Ehe
Film · 1929
La Grande Passion
Film · 1928
Hungarian Rhapsody
Film · 1928
The Secret Courier
Film · 1928
The Maelstrom of Paris
Film · 1928
Der Anwalt des Herzens
Film · 1927
Orientexpress
Film · 1927
His English Wife
Film · 1927
Tartuffe
Film · 1926
Love Is Blind
Film · 1926
Two Brothers
Film · 1926
Der Veilchenfresser
Film · 1926
Only a Dancing Girl
Film · 1926
The Chronicles of the Gray House
Film · 1925
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
Film · 1925
Comedy of the Heart
Film · 1924
Tiefland
Film · 1923
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
Film · 1923
His Wife, the Unknown
Film · 1923
Phantom
Film · 1922
Luise Millerin
Film · 1922
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Film · 1922
Destiny
Film · 1921
The Death in the Greenstreet
Film · 1921
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
Film · 1921
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
Film · 1921
Toteninsel
Film · 1921
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Film · 1920
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
Film · 1920
The Mayor of Zalamea
Film · 1920
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
Film · 1920
Die Kwannon von Okadera
Film · 1920
Das Blut der Ahnen
Film · 1920
Die Frau im Himmel
Film · 1920
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
Film · 1919
Spiritismus
Film · 1919
Phantome des Lebens
Film · 1919
Harakiri
Film · 1919
The Dancer
Film · 1919
Bettler GmbH
Film · 1919
Die Rache ist mein
Film · 1919
Clown Charly
Film · 1918
Der Volontär
Film · 1918