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.
★7.9
MOVIE1920
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
as Jane
★6.9
MOVIE1929
Monte Cristo
as Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
★5.8
MOVIE1934
The Fugitive from Chicago
as Eveline
★7.0
MOVIE1935
The Bird Seller
as Die Kurfürstin
★7.4
MOVIE1921
Destiny
as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
★5.0
MOVIE1943
Vienna 1910
as Maria Anschütz
★9.0
MOVIE1958
Trees die upright
as Großmutter
★8.0
MOVIE1955
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
as Alice Lechaudier
★7.7
MOVIE1922
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
as (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
as Maja
★5.6
MOVIE1937
Fridericus
as Marquise de Pompadour
★7.0
MOVIE1921
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
as Gabriela Farnese/Concha
MOVIE1977
Die Teufelsbraut
★7.0
MOVIE1926
Der Veilchenfresser
as Melitta von Arthof
★7.3
MOVIE1930
The White Devil
as Nelidowa
★5.4
MOVIE1942
The Little Residence
as Herzogin von Lauffenburg
MOVIE1967
Siedlung Arkadien
as Frau Assmann
MOVIE1971
Kolibri
as Anna Maria Hansen
★7.0
MOVIE1930
Boycott
as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
★10.0
MOVIE1961
Der Mann von draußen
as Mrs.Gillis
★8.0
MOVIE1931
Madame Bluebeard
as Frau Erika Dankwarth
★5.8
MOVIE1919
Harakiri
as O-Take-San
★8.0
MOVIE1925
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
as Toni
★8.0
MOVIE1920
Die Kwannon von Okadera
as Kwannon von Okadera
★9.0
MOVIE1923
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
as Tina Bermonte
★8.0
MOVIE1928
La Grande Passion
as Sonia de Blich
★7.0
MOVIE1952
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
as Lamberta
★10.0
MOVIE1919
Die Rache ist mein
★10.0
MOVIE1934
Ich heirate meine Frau
as Lisa Behmer
★5.0
MOVIE1978
End of the Game
as Gastmann's Mother
MOVIE1971
Paradies der alten Damen
as Leonore Feller
★10.0
MOVIE1920
Das Blut der Ahnen
★7.0
MOVIE1963
Reisender ohne Gepäck
as Herzogin
MOVIE1919
Bettler GmbH
★8.0
MOVIE1926
Only a Dancing Girl
as Marie Berner
★4.3
MOVIE1977
The Standard
as Erzherzogin
★8.0
MOVIE1930
Old Song
as Baronin Eggedy
★7.0
MOVIE1927
Der Anwalt des Herzens
as June Orchard
★6.2
MOVIE1939
Detours to Happiness
as Hanna Bracht
★7.6
MOVIE1936
The Girl Irene
as Jennifer Lawrence
★10.0
MOVIE1935
Lady Windermeres Fächer
as Mrs. Erlynne
★6.6
MOVIE1961
The Strange Countess
as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
MOVIE1940
Die Räuber
★7.0
MOVIE1930
Va Banque
as Harriet Williams
MOVIE1918
Clown Charly
★7.0
MOVIE1919
Spiritismus
★6.3
MOVIE1932
The Woman from Monte Carlo
as Lottie Corlaix
★6.9
MOVIE1922
Phantom
as Marie Starke
★7.0
MOVIE1918
Der Volontär
★8.0
MOVIE1931
The Case of Colonel Redl
as Vera Nikolayevna
★8.0
MOVIE1956
Meine 16 Söhne
as Frau Senator Giselius
MOVIE1950
Es kommt ein Tag
as Madame Mombour
★10.0
MOVIE1920
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
as Malatti
★5.9
MOVIE1940
Bismarck
as Eugénie
★7.2
MOVIE1926
Tartuffe
as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
★6.0
MOVIE1919
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
as Sun Priestess Naela
★6.0
MOVIE1954
Hubertus Castle
as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
★7.2
MOVIE1931
Congress Dances
as Komtesse
★7.0
MOVIE1973
The Pedestrian
as Frau Eschenlohr
★6.6
MOVIE1938
The Stars Shine
as Gast
★5.8
MOVIE1959
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
★8.0
MOVIE1924
Comedy of the Heart
as Gerda Werska
★6.3
MOVIE1936
The Final Chord
as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
★6.1
MOVIE1979
Tales from the Vienna Woods
as Helene
★7.0
MOVIE1931
Elisabeth of Austria
as Elisabeth von Österreich
★8.0
MOVIE1953
Königliche Hoheit
as Gräfin Löwenjoul
★7.0
MOVIE1955
Die Barrings
as Thilde von Barring
★5.5
MOVIE1932
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
as Barberina Campanini
★9.0
MOVIE1920
Die Frau im Himmel
as Tatjana
★7.0
MOVIE1919
Phantome des Lebens
★9.0
MOVIE1973
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self
★5.3
MOVIE1926
Two Brothers
as Esther
★7.7
MOVIE1930
The Great Passion
as Herself
★4.5
MOVIE2017
100 Years of the UFA
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE1928
The Secret Courier
as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
★8.0
MOVIE1939
Streit um den Knaben Jo
as Leonine Brackwieser
★6.0
MOVIE1955
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
as Baronin Hermine von Velden
★9.0
MOVIE1920
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
as Malatti
★6.4
MOVIE1956
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
as Kaiserin Elisabeth
★7.8
MOVIE1940
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
★6.5
MOVIE1971
Glückspilze
★5.2
MOVIE1953
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
as Gräfin Waldenberg
MOVIE1967
Lösegeld für Mylady
as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
★7.0
MOVIE1930
The Ring of the Empress
as Catherine the Great
MOVIE1971
Professor Sound und die Pille
as Seine Frau
★8.3
MOVIE1969
Hotel Royal
as Maharani von Dungapur
★8.0
MOVIE1921
The Death in the Greenstreet
★7.6
MOVIE1959
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
★7.0
MOVIE1937
The Kreutzer Sonata
as Jelaina Posdnyschew
★8.0
MOVIE1968
Unwiederbringlich
as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
★9.0
MOVIE1921
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
as Malatti
★10.0
MOVIE1927
His English Wife
as Cathleen Paget
★8.0
MOVIE1919
Der Tänzer
as Andreas Mother
★7.0
MOVIE1928
The Maelstrom of Paris
★6.5
MOVIE1925
The Chronicles of the Gray House
as Bärbe
★9.0
MOVIE1938
Rätsel um Beate
as Beate Kaiserling
★5.8
MOVIE1923
His Wife, the Unknown
as Eva
★8.0
MOVIE1944
Musik in Salzburg
as Ursula Sanden
★9.0
MOVIE1975
Memento Mori
as Charmian Colston
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Hungarian Rhapsody
as Camilla
★8.0
MOVIE1929
Die Ehe
★9.0
MOVIE1948
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
as Margot von Korff
★7.5
MOVIE1935
The Higher Command
as Madame Martin
★8.0
MOVIE1957
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
as Contessa Celestina Morini
★8.0
MOVIE1932
Married by the Stork
as Thea Roland
★6.3
MOVIE1955
Rosen im Herbst
as Mutter Briest
★10.0
MOVIE1920
The Mayor of Zalamea
as Isabel
★7.0
MOVIE1930
There is a woman who will never forget you
as Tilly Ferrantes
★7.0
MOVIE1933
Johannisnacht
as Lisa Lers
★8.0
MOVIE1949
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
as Florentine Alvensleben
★9.0
MOVIE1934
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
as Manon Cavallini
★6.7
MOVIE1950
Chased by the Devil
as Frau Dakar
★10.0
MOVIE1936
August der Starke
as Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
★10.0
MOVIE1923
Tiefland
as Martha
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Triad
as Cornelia Contarini
★9.0
MOVIE1929
Es flüstert die Nacht
★10.0
MOVIE1927
Orientexpress
as Beate von Morton
★10.0
MOVIE1926
Love Is Blind
★7.0
MOVIE1922
Luise Millerin
★9.0
MOVIE1930
The Second Kiss
as Empress Marie Theresa