Lil Dagover
Acting
Born September 29, 1887 · Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
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). Immediately after she appeared in Wiene's classic expressionist film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (aka Th…
Known For · 40 titles
Scene of the Crime
Bambi
German Film Award
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Seniorenclub
The Bird Seller
Blick zurück im Film
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
The Fugitive from Chicago
Trees die upright
Monte Cristo
Vienna 1910
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
Toteninsel
Otto – The Series
The White Devil
Destiny
Detours to Happiness
Fridericus
Boycott
Harakiri
Die Teufelsbraut
Madame Bluebeard
Der Veilchenfresser
Reisender ohne Gepäck
The Case of Colonel Redl
The Little Residence
End of the Game
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
Va Banque
Kolibri
Die Räuber
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
Siedlung Arkadien
Meine 16 Söhne
La Grande Passion
Ich heirate meine Frau
The Strange Countess
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee