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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.

100 Years of the UFA
as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Otto – The Series
as Verschiedene

Tales from the Vienna Woods
as Helene

End of the Game
as Gastmann's Mother

The Standard
as Erzherzogin
Die Teufelsbraut
Memento Mori
as Charmian Colston

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self

The Pedestrian
as Frau Eschenlohr
Glückspilze
Kolibri
as Anna Maria Hansen
Paradies der alten Damen
as Leonore Feller

Professor Sound und die Pille
as Seine Frau

Scene of the Crime
as Mutter Koenen

Hotel Royal
as Maharani von Dungapur
Seniorenclub
as Self
Unwiederbringlich
as Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
Lösegeld für Mylady
as Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
Siedlung Arkadien
as Frau Assmann
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
as Self
Blick zurück im Film
as Self
Reisender ohne Gepäck
as Herzogin

The Strange Countess
as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
Der Mann von draußen
as Mrs.Gillis

Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook

Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
as Elisabeth Buddenbrook
Trees die upright
as Großmutter

Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
as Contessa Celestina Morini

Meine 16 Söhne
as Frau Senator Giselius

Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
as Kaiserin Elisabeth

Die Barrings
as Thilde von Barring

Rosen im Herbst
as Mutter Briest

Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
as Baronin Hermine von Velden
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
German Film Award
as Self

Chased by the Devil
as Frau Dakar
Es kommt ein Tag
as Madame Mombour

Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
as Florentine Alvensleben
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
as Margot von Korff

Bambi
as Self

Musik in Salzburg
as Ursula Sanden
Vienna 1910
as Maria Anschütz

The Little Residence
as Herzogin von Lauffenburg

Bismarck
as Eugénie

Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
as Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Die Räuber

Streit um den Knaben Jo
as Leonine Brackwieser
Detours to Happiness
as Hanna Bracht

Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
as Maja
Triad
as Cornelia Contarini

The Stars Shine
as Gast

Rätsel um Beate
as Beate Kaiserling
The Kreutzer Sonata
as Jelaina Posdnyschew

Fridericus
as Marquise de Pompadour

The Final Chord
as Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
August der Starke
as Gräfin Aurore Königsmark