Lil Dagover
Acting
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Acting Credits
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). Immedia...
Known For
Filmography
100 Years of the UFA
2017
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Otto – The Series
1995
as Verschiedene
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
as Helene
The Standard
1977
as Erzherzogin
Die Teufelsbraut
1977
Memento Mori
1975
as Charmian Colston
End of the Game
1975
as Gastmann's Mother
The Pedestrian
1973
as Frau Eschenlohr
Der groĂźe Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
as Self
Professor Sound und die Pille
1971
as Seine Frau
GlĂĽckspilze
1971
Paradies der alten Damen
1971
as Leonore Feller
Kolibri
1971
as Anna Maria Hansen
Scene of the Crime
1970
as Mutter Koenen
Hotel Royal
1969
as Maharani von Dungapur
Unwiederbringlich
1968
as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
Seniorenclub
1968
as Self
Lösegeld für Mylady
1967
as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
Siedlung Arkadien
1967
as Frau Assmann
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
1964
as Self
Reisender ohne Gepäck
1963
as Herzogin
Blick zurĂĽck im Film
1963
as Self
The Strange Countess
1961
as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
Der Mann von drauĂźen
1961
as Mrs.Gillis
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1959
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
1959
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Trees die upright
1958
as GroĂźmutter
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
1957
as Contessa Celestina Morini
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1956
as Kaiserin Elisabeth
Meine 16 Söhne
1956
as Frau Senator Giselius
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
1955
as Baronin Hermine von Velden
Rosen im Herbst
1955
as Mutter Briest
Die Barrings
1955
as Thilde von Barring
Ich weiĂź, wofĂĽr ich lebe
1955
as Alice Lechaudier
Hubertus Castle
1954
as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
Königliche Hoheit
1953
as Gräfin Löwenjoul
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1953
as Gräfin Waldenberg
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
1952
as Lamberta
German Film Award
1951
as Self
Es kommt ein Tag
1950
as Madame Mombour
Chased by the Devil
1950
as Frau Dakar
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
1949
as Florentine Alvensleben
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
1948
as Margot von Korff
Bambi
1948
as Self
Musik in Salzburg
1944
as Ursula Sanden
Vienna 1910
1943
as Maria AnschĂĽtz
The Little Residence
1942
as Herzogin von Lauffenburg
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1940
as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Bismarck
1940
as Eugénie
Die Räuber
1940
Detours to Happiness
1939
as Hanna Bracht
Streit um den Knaben Jo
1939
as Leonine Brackwieser
Rätsel um Beate
1938
as Beate Kaiserling
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
1938
as Maja
Triad
1938
as Cornelia Contarini
The Stars Shine
1938
as Gast
Fridericus
1937
as Marquise de Pompadour
The Kreutzer Sonata
1937
as Jelaina Posdnyschew
The Final Chord
1936
as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
The Girl Irene
1936
as Jennifer Lawrence
August der Starke
1936
as Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
Lady Windermeres Fächer
1935
as Mrs. Erlynne
The Higher Command
1935
as Madame Martin
The Bird Seller
1935
as Die KurfĂĽrstin
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
1934
as Manon Cavallini
Ich heirate meine Frau
1934
as Lisa Behmer
The Fugitive from Chicago
1934
as Eveline
Johannisnacht
1933
as Lisa Lers
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
as Lottie Corlaix
Married by the Stork
1932
as Thea Roland
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
1932
as Barberina Campanini
Congress Dances
1931
as Komtesse
Elisabeth of Austria
1931
as Elisabeth von Ă–sterreich
Madame Bluebeard
1931
as Frau Erika Dankwarth
The Case of Colonel Redl
1931
as Vera Nikolayevna
Boycott
1930
as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
The White Devil
1930
as Nelidowa
Old Song
1930
as Baronin Eggedy
There is a woman who will never forget you
1930
as Tilly Ferrantes
The Great Desire
1930
as Herself
The Second Kiss
1930
as Empress Marie Theresa
The Ring of the Empress
1930
as Catherine the Great
Va Banque
1930
as Harriet Williams
Es flĂĽstert die Nacht
1929
Monte Cristo
1929
as Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
Die Ehe
1929
La Grande Passion
1928
as Sonia de Blich
Hungarian Rhapsody
1928
as Camilla
The Secret Courier
1928
as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
The Maelstrom of Paris
1928
Der Anwalt des Herzens
1927
as June Orchard
Orientexpress
1927
as Beate von Morton
His English Wife
1927
as Cathleen Paget
Tartuffe
1926
as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
Love Is Blind
1926
Two Brothers
1926
as Esther
Der Veilchenfresser
1926
as Melitta von Arthof
Only a Dancing Girl
1926
as Marie Berner
The Chronicles of the Gray House
1925
as Bärbe
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
1925
as Toni
Comedy of the Heart
1924
as Gerda Werska
Tiefland
1923
as Martha
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
1923
as Tina Bermonte
His Wife, the Unknown
1923
as Eva
Phantom
1922
as Marie Starke
Luise Millerin
1922
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922
as (uncredited)
Destiny
1921
as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
The Death in the Greenstreet
1921
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
1921
as Malatti
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
1921
as Gabriela Farnese/Concha
Toteninsel
1921
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
as Jane
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1920
as Malatti
The Mayor of Zalamea
1920
as Isabel
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
1920
as Malatti
Die Kwannon von Okadera
1920
as Kwannon von Okadera
Das Blut der Ahnen
1920
Die Frau im Himmel
1920
as Tatjana
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1919
as Sun Priestess Naela
Spiritismus
1919
Phantome des Lebens
1919
Harakiri
1919
as O-Take-San
Der Tänzer
1919
as Andreas Mother
Bettler GmbH
1919
Die Rache ist mein
1919
Clown Charly
1918
Der Volontär
1918