Lil Dagover
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 expres…
Known field
Acting
Total Movie Credited
121
Total TV Shows Credited
7
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
Birthdate
September 29, 1887
Death Date
January 23o 1980
Also known as
Лиль Даговер
Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert