Cast

Lil Dagover

Acting

Cast

Lil Dagover

Known for

Acting

Born

1887-09-29

From

Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]

Died

1980-01-23

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.

Lil Dagover

Lil Dagover

Biography

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Monte Cristo

The Fugitive from Chicago

The Bird Seller

Destiny

Vienna 1910

Trees die upright

Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Maja zwischen zwei Ehen

Fridericus

Das Geheimnis von Bombay

Die Teufelsbraut

Der Veilchenfresser

The White Devil

The Little Residence

Siedlung Arkadien

Kolibri

Boycott

Der Mann von draußen

Madame Bluebeard

Harakiri

Der Demütige und die Tänzerin

Die Kwannon von Okadera

Die Prinzessin Suwarin

La Grande Passion

Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee

Die Rache ist mein

Ich heirate meine Frau

End of the Game

Paradies der alten Damen

Das Blut der Ahnen

Reisender ohne Gepäck

Bettler GmbH

Only a Dancing Girl

The Standard

Old Song

Der Anwalt des Herzens

Detours to Happiness

The Girl Irene

Lady Windermeres Fächer

The Strange Countess

Die Räuber

Va Banque

Clown Charly

Spiritismus

The Woman from Monte Carlo

Phantom

Der Volontär

The Case of Colonel Redl

Meine 16 Söhne

Es kommt ein Tag

Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt

Bismarck

Tartuffe

The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea

Hubertus Castle

Congress Dances

The Pedestrian

The Stars Shine

Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil

Comedy of the Heart

The Final Chord

Tales from the Vienna Woods

Elisabeth of Austria

Königliche Hoheit

Die Barrings

Barbarina, the King's Dancer

Die Frau im Himmel

Phantome des Lebens

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt

Two Brothers

The Great Passion

100 Years of the UFA

The Secret Courier

Streit um den Knaben Jo

Der Fischer vom Heiligensee