Birth Day: 1887-09-29
Place of birth: Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
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.
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As Helene -
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As Erzherzogin -
As Charmian Colston
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As Frau Eschenlohr -
As Self -
As Seine Frau -
As Anna Maria Hansen
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As Leonore Feller
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As Maharani von Dungapur -
As Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
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As Frau Assmann
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As Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
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As Herzogin
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As Mrs.Gillis
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As Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron -
As Elisabeth Buddenbrook -
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As Großmutter
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As Contessa Celestina Morini -
As Frau Senator Giselius -
As Kaiserin Elisabeth -
As Mutter Briest -
As Thilde von Barring -
As Alice Lechaudier
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As Baronin Hermine von Velden -
As Baronin Gundi Kleesberg -
As Gräfin Waldenberg -
As Gräfin Löwenjoul -
As Lamberta -
As Frau Dakar -
As Madame Mombour
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As Florentine Alvensleben -
As Margot von Korff
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As Ursula Sanden -
As Maria Anschütz
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As Herzogin von Lauffenburg -
As Eugénie -
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As Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim -
As Hanna Bracht
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As Leonine Brackwieser -
As Maja -
As Cornelia Contarini
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As Gast -
As Beate Kaiserling -
As Jelaina Posdnyschew
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As Marquise de Pompadour -
As Jennifer Lawrence -
As Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau -
As Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
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As Mrs. Erlynne -
As Die Kurfürstin -
As Madame Martin -
As Eveline -
As Manon Cavallini -
As Lisa Behmer -
As Lisa Lers -
As Lottie Corlaix -
As Thea Roland -
As Barberina Campanini -
As Komtesse -
As Elisabeth von Österreich -
As Vera Nikolayevna -
As Frau Erika Dankwarth -
As Harriet Williams -
As Catherine the Great -
As Empress Marie Theresa -
As Baronin Eggedy -
As Herself -
As Tilly Ferrantes -
As Nelidowa
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As Frau von Generaldirektor Haller -
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As Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf -
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As Sonia de Blich -
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As Mme. Thérèse de Renal -
As Camilla -
As Beate von Morton -
As Cathleen Paget -
As June Orchard -
As Marie Berner -
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As Esther
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As Melitta von Arthof
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As Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife -
As Bärbe -
As Toni
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As Gerda Werska -
As Martha
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As Tina Bermonte -
As Eva -
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As Marie Starke -
As Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien -
As Gabriela Farnese/Concha -
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As Malatti
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As Tatjana
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As Malatti -
As Isabel -
As Kwannon von Okadera -
As Malatti -
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As Jane -
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As Andreas Mother -
As Sun Priestess Naela -
As O-Take-San -
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