Lil Dagover
Acting
Born Sep 29, 1887
-- Died Jan 23, 1980
· Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
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...
Filmography on SassyFlix
1 title
Also Known For
7.9
movie
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
as Jane
1920
7.7
movie
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
as (uncredited)
1922
7.4
movie
Destiny
as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
1921
6.2
tv
Scene of the Crime
as Mutter Koenen
1970
7.2
movie
Tartuffe
as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
1926
6.8
movie
Phantom
as Marie Starke
1922
5.9
movie
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
as Sun Priestess Naela
1919
5.0
movie
End of the Game
as Gastmann's Mother
1978
5.8
movie
Harakiri
as O-Take-San
1919
6.5
movie
The Strange Countess
as Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
1961
7.2
movie
Congress Dances
as Komtesse
1931
6.8
movie
Monte Cristo
as Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
1929