
Cast
Acting
Cast
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
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.

as Jane

as Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf

as Eveline

as Die Kurfürstin

as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien

as Maria Anschütz

as Großmutter

as Alice Lechaudier

as (uncredited)

as Maja

as Marquise de Pompadour

as Gabriela Farnese/Concha


as Melitta von Arthof

as Nelidowa

as Herzogin von Lauffenburg

as Frau Assmann

as Anna Maria Hansen

as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller

as Mrs.Gillis

as Frau Erika Dankwarth

as O-Take-San

as Toni

as Kwannon von Okadera

as Tina Bermonte

as Sonia de Blich

as Lamberta


as Lisa Behmer

as Gastmann's Mother

as Leonore Feller


as Herzogin


as Marie Berner

as Erzherzogin

as Baronin Eggedy

as June Orchard

as Hanna Bracht

as Jennifer Lawrence

as Mrs. Erlynne

as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron


as Harriet Williams



as Lottie Corlaix

as Marie Starke


as Vera Nikolayevna

as Frau Senator Giselius

as Madame Mombour

as Malatti

as Eugénie

as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife

as Sun Priestess Naela

as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg

as Komtesse

as Frau Eschenlohr

as Gast

as Elisabeth Buddenbrook

as Gerda Werska

as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau

as Helene

as Elisabeth von Österreich

as Gräfin Löwenjoul

as Thilde von Barring

as Barberina Campanini

as Tatjana


as Self

as Esther

as Herself

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

as Mme. Thérèse de Renal

as Leonine Brackwieser

as Baronin Hermine von Velden

as Malatti

as Kaiserin Elisabeth

as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim


as Gräfin Waldenberg

as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers

as Catherine the Great

as Seine Frau

as Maharani von Dungapur


as Elisabeth Buddenbrook

as Jelaina Posdnyschew

as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore

as Malatti

as Cathleen Paget

as Andreas Mother


as Bärbe

as Beate Kaiserling

as Eva

as Ursula Sanden

as Charmian Colston

as Camilla


as Margot von Korff

as Madame Martin

as Contessa Celestina Morini

as Thea Roland

as Mutter Briest

as Isabel

as Tilly Ferrantes

as Lisa Lers

as Florentine Alvensleben

as Manon Cavallini

as Frau Dakar

as Gräfin Aurore Königsmark

as Martha

as Cornelia Contarini


as Beate von Morton



as Empress Marie Theresa