Acting
Lil Dagover
DE, EN, FR, XX cinema · 121 credits
Born
29 September 1887
Died
23 January 1980 (aged 92)
Birthplace
Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
Also known as Лиль Даговер · Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert
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.
Known for
Filmography
100 Years of the UFA
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
The Standard
as Erzherzogin
Memento Mori
1975
Memento Mori
as Charmian Colston
End of the Game
as Gastmann's Mother
The Pedestrian
as Frau Eschenlohr
Professor Sound und die Pille
as Seine Frau
Kolibri
1971
Kolibri
as Anna Maria Hansen
Hotel Royal
as Maharani von Dungapur
Unwiederbringlich
1968
Unwiederbringlich
as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
Lösegeld für Mylady
1967
Lösegeld für Mylady
as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
Siedlung Arkadien
1967
Siedlung Arkadien
as Frau Assmann
The Strange Countess
as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
as Contessa Celestina Morini
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
as Kaiserin Elisabeth
Meine 16 Söhne
as Frau Senator Giselius
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
as Baronin Hermine von Velden
Rosen im Herbst
as Mutter Briest
Die Barrings
as Thilde von Barring
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1955
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
as Alice Lechaudier
Hubertus Castle
as Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
Königliche Hoheit
as Gräfin Löwenjoul
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
as Gräfin Waldenberg
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
as Lamberta
Es kommt ein Tag
1950
Es kommt ein Tag
as Madame Mombour
Chased by the Devil
as Frau Dakar
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
as Florentine Alvensleben
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
1948
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
as Margot von Korff
Musik in Salzburg
as Ursula Sanden
Wien 1910
1943
Vienna 1910
as Maria Anschütz
The Little Residence
as Herzogin von Lauffenburg
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Bismarck
as Eugénie
Umwege zum Glück
1939
Detours to Happiness
as Hanna Bracht
Streit um den Knaben Jo
as Leonine Brackwieser
Rätsel um Beate
as Beate Kaiserling
Dreiklang
1938
Triad
as Cornelia Contarini
The Stars Shine
as Gast
Fridericus
as Marquise de Pompadour
Die Kreutzersonate
1937
The Kreutzer Sonata
as Jelaina Posdnyschew
The Final Chord
as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
The Girl Irene
as Jennifer Lawrence
August der Starke
1936
August der Starke
as Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
Lady Windermeres Fächer
as Mrs. Erlynne
The Higher Command
as Madame Martin
The Bird Seller
as Die Kurfürstin
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
as Manon Cavallini
Ich heirate meine Frau
as Lisa Behmer
The Fugitive from Chicago
as Eveline
Johannisnacht
as Lisa Lers
The Woman from Monte Carlo
as Lottie Corlaix
Married by the Stork
as Thea Roland
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
as Barberina Campanini
Congress Dances
as Komtesse
Elisabeth of Austria
as Elisabeth von Österreich
Madame Bluebeard
as Frau Erika Dankwarth
The Case of Colonel Redl
as Vera Nikolayevna
Boycott
as Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
Old Song
as Baronin Eggedy
There is a woman who will never forget you
as Tilly Ferrantes
The Great Desire
as Herself
The Second Kiss
as Empress Marie Theresa
The Ring of the Empress
as Catherine the Great
Va Banque
as Harriet Williams
Monte Cristo
as Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
Die Ehe
Actor
La Grande Passion
as Sonia de Blich
Hungarian Rhapsody
as Camilla
The Secret Courier
as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
Der Anwalt des Herzens
as June Orchard
Orientexpress
as Beate von Morton
His English Wife
as Cathleen Paget
Tartuffe
as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
Der Veilchenfresser
1926
Der Veilchenfresser
as Melitta von Arthof
Only a Dancing Girl
as Marie Berner
Comedy of the Heart
as Gerda Werska
Tiefland
1923
Tiefland
as Martha
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
as Tina Bermonte
Phantom
as Marie Starke
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
as (uncredited)
Destiny
as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
as Gabriela Farnese/Concha
The Mayor of Zalamea
as Isabel
Die Kwannon von Okadera
as Kwannon von Okadera
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
as Sun Priestess Naela
Harakiri
as O-Take-San
The Dancer
as Andreas Mother
