
Known for
Acting
Born
September 29, 1887
Birthplace
Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
Died
January 23, 1980 (aged 92)
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...
2017
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
1995
1979
as Helene
1977
as Erzherzogin
1977
1975
as Gastmann's Mother
1975
as Charmian Colston
1973
1973
as Frau Eschenlohr
1971
1971
as Anna Maria Hansen
1971
as Leonore Feller
1971
as Seine Frau
1970
1969
as Maharani von Dungapur
1968
1968
as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
1967
as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
1967
as Frau Assmann
1964
1963
1963
as Herzogin
1961
as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
1961
as Mrs.Gillis
1959
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook