Lil Dagover
Known for
Acting
Born
September 29, 1887
Birthplace
Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
Died
January 23, 1980 (aged 92)
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 Franc...
Best known work
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922
Destiny
1921
Scene of the Crime
1970
Tartuffe
1926
Phantom
1922
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1919
Harakiri
1919
End of the Game
1975
The Strange Countess
1961Filmography
2017
100 Years of the UFAas Self - Actress (archive footage)
1995
1979
Tales from the Vienna Woodsas Helene
1977
The Standardas Erzherzogin
1977
1975
End of the Gameas Gastmann's Mother
1975
Memento Morias Charmian Colston
1973
1973
The Pedestrianas Frau Eschenlohr
1971
1971
Kolibrias Anna Maria Hansen
1971
Paradies der alten Damenas Leonore Feller
1971
Professor Sound und die Pilleas Seine Frau
1970
1969
Hotel Royalas Maharani von Dungapur
1968
1968
Unwiederbringlichas Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
1967
Lösegeld für Myladyas Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
1967
Siedlung Arkadienas Frau Assmann
1964
1963
1963
Reisender ohne Gepäckas Herzogin
1961
The Strange Countessas Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
1961
Der Mann von draußenas Mrs.Gillis
1959
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teilas Elisabeth Buddenbrook