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 -
As Erzherzogin -
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As Gastmann's Mother -
As Charmian Colston
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As Frau Eschenlohr -
As Self -
As Leonore Feller
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As Seine Frau -
As Anna Maria Hansen
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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 -
As Elisabeth Buddenbrook -
As Großmutter
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As Contessa Celestina Morini -
As Kaiserin Elisabeth -
As Frau Senator Giselius -
As Baronin Hermine von Velden -
As Thilde von Barring -
As Alice Lechaudier
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As Mutter Briest -
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 -
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As Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim -
As Eugénie -
As Hanna Bracht
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As Leonine Brackwieser -
As Beate Kaiserling -
As Gast -
As Cornelia Contarini
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As Maja -
As Marquise de Pompadour -
As Jelaina Posdnyschew
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As Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
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As Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau -
As Jennifer Lawrence -
As Die Kurfürstin -
As Madame Martin -
As Mrs. Erlynne -
As Manon Cavallini -
As Lisa Behmer -
As Eveline -
As Lisa Lers -
As Lottie Corlaix -
As Thea Roland -
As Barberina Campanini -
As Frau Erika Dankwarth -
As Vera Nikolayevna -
As Komtesse -
As Elisabeth von Österreich -
As Catherine the Great -
As Empress Marie Theresa -
As Harriet Williams -
As Baronin Eggedy -
As Herself -
As Frau von Generaldirektor Haller -
As Nelidowa
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As Tilly Ferrantes -
As Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf -
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As Camilla -
As Mme. Thérèse de Renal -
As Sonia de Blich -
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As Cathleen Paget -
As June Orchard -
As Beate von Morton -
As Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife -
As Esther
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As Melitta von Arthof
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As Marie Berner -
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As Bärbe -
As Toni
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As Gerda Werska -
As Eva -
As Martha
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As Tina Bermonte -
As Marie Starke -
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As Gabriela Farnese/Concha -
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As Malatti
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As Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien -
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As Kwannon von Okadera -
As Malatti -
As Jane -
As Tatjana
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As Isabel -
As Malatti -
As O-Take-San -
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As Andreas Mother -
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As Sun Priestess Naela -
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