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.

Фільмографія

• Otto – The Series — Verschiedene
• 1979Tales from the Vienna Woods — Helene
• 1977Die Teufelsbraut
• 1977The Standard — Erzherzogin
• 1975End of the Game — Gastmann's Mother
• 1975Memento Mori — Charmian Colston
• 1973The Pedestrian — Frau Eschenlohr
• 1971Glückspilze
• 1971Kolibri — Anna Maria Hansen
• 1971Paradies der alten Damen — Leonore Feller
• 1971Professor Sound und die Pille — Seine Frau
• Scene of the Crime — Mutter Koenen
• 1969Hotel Royal — Maharani von Dungapur
• 1968Unwiederbringlich — Prinzessin Maria Eleonore
• 1967Lösegeld für Mylady — Lady Cherfield / Mrs. Flowers
• 1967Siedlung Arkadien — Frau Assmann
• 1963Reisender ohne Gepäck — Herzogin
• 1961Der Mann von draußen — Mrs.Gillis
• 1961The Strange Countess — Gräfin / Lady Leonora Moron
• 1959Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil — Elisabeth Buddenbrook
• 1959Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil — Elisabeth Buddenbrook
• 1958Trees die upright — Großmutter
• 1957Unter Palmen am blauen Meer — Contessa Celestina Morini
• 1956Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe — Kaiserin Elisabeth
• 1956Meine 16 Söhne — Frau Senator Giselius
• 1955Der Fischer vom Heiligensee — Baronin Hermine von Velden
• 1955Die Barrings — Thilde von Barring
• 1955Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe — Alice Lechaudier
• 1955Rosen im Herbst — Mutter Briest
• 1954Hubertus Castle — Baronin Gundi Kleesberg
• 1953Königliche Hoheit — Gräfin Löwenjoul
• 1953Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine — Gräfin Waldenberg
• 1952Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee — Lamberta
• 1950Chased by the Devil — Frau Dakar
• 1950Es kommt ein Tag — Madame Mombour
• 1949Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe — Florentine Alvensleben
• 1948Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary — Margot von Korff
• 1944Musik in Salzburg — Ursula Sanden
• 1943Vienna 1910 — Maria Anschütz
• 1942The Little Residence — Herzogin von Lauffenburg
• 1940Bismarck — Eugénie
• 1940Die Räuber
• 1940Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius — Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
• 1939Detours to Happiness — Hanna Bracht
• 1939Streit um den Knaben Jo — Leonine Brackwieser
• 1938Maja zwischen zwei Ehen — Maja
• 1938Rätsel um Beate — Beate Kaiserling
• 1938The Stars Shine — Gast
• 1938Triad — Cornelia Contarini
• 1937Fridericus — Marquise de Pompadour
• 1937The Kreutzer Sonata — Jelaina Posdnyschew
• 1936August der Starke — Gräfin Aurore Königsmark
• 1936The Final Chord — Charlotte Garvenberg, seine Frau
• 1936The Girl Irene — Jennifer Lawrence
• 1935Lady Windermeres Fächer — Mrs. Erlynne
• 1935The Bird Seller — Die Kurfürstin
• 1935The Higher Command — Madame Martin
• 1934A Woman Who Knows What She Wants — Manon Cavallini
• 1934Ich heirate meine Frau — Lisa Behmer
• 1934The Fugitive from Chicago — Eveline
• 1933Johannisnacht — Lisa Lers
• 1932Barbarina, the King's Dancer — Barberina Campanini
• 1932Married by the Stork — Thea Roland
• 1932The Woman from Monte Carlo — Lottie Corlaix
• 1931Congress Dances — Komtesse
• 1931Elisabeth of Austria — Elisabeth von Österreich
• 1931Madame Bluebeard — Frau Erika Dankwarth
• 1931The Case of Colonel Redl — Vera Nikolayevna
• 1930Boycott — Frau von Generaldirektor Haller
• 1930Old Song — Baronin Eggedy
• 1930The Ring of the Empress — Catherine the Great
• 1930The Second Kiss — Empress Marie Theresa
• 1930The White Devil — Nelidowa
• 1930There is a woman who will never forget you — Tilly Ferrantes
• 1930Va Banque — Harriet Williams
• 1929Die Ehe
• 1929Es flüstert die Nacht
• 1929Monte Cristo — Mercédès / Comtesse de Morcerf
• 1928Hungarian Rhapsody — Camilla
• 1928La Grande Passion — Sonia de Blich
• 1928The Maelstrom of Paris
• 1928The Secret Courier — Mme. Thérèse de Renal
• 1927Der Anwalt des Herzens — June Orchard
• 1927His English Wife — Cathleen Paget
• 1927Orientexpress — Beate von Morton
• 1926Der Veilchenfresser — Melitta von Arthof
• 1926Love Is Blind
• 1926Only a Dancing Girl — Marie Berner
• 1926Tartuffe — Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
• 1926Two Brothers — Esther
• 1925Der Demütige und die Tänzerin — Toni
• 1925The Chronicles of the Gray House — Bärbe
• 1924Comedy of the Heart — Gerda Werska
• 1923Die Prinzessin Suwarin — Tina Bermonte
• 1923His Wife, the Unknown — Eva
• 1923Tiefland — Martha
• 1922Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler — (uncredited)
• 1922Luise Millerin
• 1922Phantom — Marie Starke
• 1921Das Geheimnis von Bombay — Gabriela Farnese/Concha
• 1921Destiny — Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
• 1921Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel — Malatti
• 1921The Death in the Greenstreet
• 1921Toteninsel
• 1920Das Blut der Ahnen
• 1920Die Frau im Himmel — Tatjana
• 1920Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil — Malatti
• 1920Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt — Malatti
• 1920Die Kwannon von Okadera — Kwannon von Okadera
• 1920The Mayor of Zalamea — Isabel
• 1920Кабінет доктора Калігарі — Jane
• 1919Bettler GmbH
• 1919Der Tänzer — Andreas Mother
• 1919Die Rache ist mein
• 1919Harakiri — O-Take-San
• 1919Phantome des Lebens
• 1919Spiritismus
• 1919The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea — Sun Priestess Naela
• 1918Clown Charly
• 1918Der Volontär

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (8)

• 2017100 Years of the UFA — Self - Actress (archive footage)
• 1973Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt — Self
• Seniorenclub — Self
• Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen — Self
• Blick zurück im Film — Self
• German Film Award — Self
• Bambi — Self
• 1930The Great Desire — Herself