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Lil Dagover
Acting
29 Sept 1887
† 23 Jan 1980
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). Immedia...
Also Known As
Лиль Даговер, Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert


























