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.
121 movies · 7 shows
100 Years of the UFA
2017·4.5
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979·6.1
The Standard
1977·4.3
Die Teufelsbraut
1977·0.0
End of the Game
1975·5.0
Memento Mori
1975·9.0
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973·9.0
The Pedestrian
1973·7.0
Glückspilze
1971·6.5
Kolibri
1971·0.0
Paradies der alten Damen
1971·0.0
Professor Sound und die Pille
1971·0.0
Hotel Royal
1969·8.3
Unwiederbringlich
1968·8.0
Lösegeld für Mylady
1967·0.0
Siedlung Arkadien
1967·0.0
Reisender ohne Gepäck
1963·7.0
The Strange Countess
1961·6.6
Der Mann von draußen
1961·10.0
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1959·7.6
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
1959·5.8
Trees die upright
1958·9.0
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
1957·8.0
Meine 16 Söhne
1956·8.0
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1956·6.4
Die Barrings
1955·7.0
Rosen im Herbst
1955·6.3
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
1955·6.0
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1955·8.0
Hubertus Castle
1954·6.0
Königliche Hoheit
1953·8.0
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1953·5.2
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
1952·7.0
Chased by the Devil
1950·6.7
Es kommt ein Tag
1950·0.0
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
1949·8.0
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
1948·9.0
Musik in Salzburg
1944·8.0
Vienna 1910
1943·5.0
The Little Residence
1942·5.4
Bismarck
1940·5.9
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1940·7.8
Die Räuber
1940·0.0
Streit um den Knaben Jo
1939·8.0
Detours to Happiness
1939·6.2
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
1938·8.0
Triad
1938·8.0
The Stars Shine
1938·6.6
Rätsel um Beate
1938·9.0
The Kreutzer Sonata
1937·7.0
Fridericus
1937·5.6
The Final Chord
1936·6.3
August der Starke
1936·10.0
The Girl Irene
1936·7.6
The Higher Command
1935·7.5
Lady Windermeres Fächer
1935·10.0
The Bird Seller
1935·7.0
Ich heirate meine Frau
1934·10.0
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
1934·9.0
The Fugitive from Chicago
1934·5.8
Johannisnacht
1933·7.0
Married by the Stork
1932·8.0
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
1932·5.5
The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932·6.3
Madame Bluebeard
1931·8.0
Congress Dances
1931·7.2
Elisabeth of Austria
1931·7.0
The Case of Colonel Redl
1931·8.0
Boycott
1930·7.0
Old Song
1930·8.0
Va Banque
1930·7.0
The Great Passion
1930·7.7
The Second Kiss
1930·9.0
There is a woman who will never forget you
1930·7.0
The White Devil
1930·7.3
The Ring of the Empress
1930·7.0
Es flüstert die Nacht
1929·9.0
Monte Cristo
1929·6.9
Die Ehe
1929·8.0
La Grande Passion
1928·8.0
The Secret Courier
1928·8.0
The Maelstrom of Paris
1928·7.0
Hungarian Rhapsody
1928·8.0
Orientexpress
1927·10.0
Der Anwalt des Herzens
1927·7.0
His English Wife
1927·10.0
Only a Dancing Girl
1926·8.0
Der Veilchenfresser
1926·7.0
Love Is Blind
1926·10.0
Two Brothers
1926·5.3
Tartuffe
1926·7.2
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
1925·8.0
The Chronicles of the Gray House
1925·6.5
Comedy of the Heart
1924·8.0
His Wife, the Unknown
1923·5.8
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
1923·9.0
Tiefland
1923·10.0
Phantom
1922·6.9
Luise Millerin
1922·7.0
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922·7.7
The Death in the Greenstreet
1921·8.0
Destiny
1921·7.4
Toteninsel
1921·0.0
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
1921·7.0
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
1921·9.0
Die Kwannon von Okadera
1920·8.0
Das Blut der Ahnen
1920·10.0
The Mayor of Zalamea
1920·10.0
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1920·10.0
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
1920·9.0
Die Frau im Himmel
1920·9.0
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920·7.9
Spiritismus
1919·7.0
Harakiri
1919·5.8
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1919·6.0
Der Tänzer
1919·8.0
Phantome des Lebens
1919·7.0
Bettler GmbH
1919·0.0
Die Rache ist mein
1919·10.0
Clown Charly
1918·0.0
Der Volontär
1918·7.0