*Marta Maria Lilitts of Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert

* 30.9.1897, Madiven, Java - † 1980

The daughter of a Dutch forest ranger, she was sent to Germany for her elementary education. She broke into German films thanks to her marriage at age 20 to veteran actor Fritz Daghofer (1872-1936), 25 years her senior. They divorced in 1919 but not before he had introduced her to director Robert Wiene and other notables of the German cinema. She made her screen debut in Fritz Lang's HARAKIRI (1919) and, immediately after, played the feminine lead in Wiene's classic of expressionism, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1919). A dark beauty with large, expressive eyes, she usually played frail, menaced heroines. She starred in scores of German films as well as in some Swedish (1926-27) and French (1928-29) and one American film (1931). She was an important international star in the 20s and early 30s and continued to play supporting parts into the late 70s.

Filmography Lil Dagover

1919   THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI/DAS KABINETT DES DR. CALIGARI       

1919   HARAKIRI      

1919   SPIDERS/DIE SPINNEN       

1920   DAS GEHEIMNIS VON BOMBAY      

1920   DER RICHTER VON ZALAMEA

1920   DIE TOTENINSEL     

1920   SPIRITISMUS

1921   BETWEEN TWO WORLDS/DER MÜDE TOD/BEYOND THE WALL/DESTINY

1921   DAS MEDIUM 

1922   DR. MABUSE: DER SPIELER (THE GAMBLER)                                     DR. MABUSE DER SPIELER/DR. MABUSE       

1922   PHANTOM     

1922   TIEFLAND     

1923   LOVE MAKES US BLIND/LIEBE MACHT BLIND       

1924   KOMÖDIE DES HERZENS     

1925   THE CHRONICLES OF THE GREY HOUSE/AT THE GREY HOUSE              ZUR CHRONIK VON GRIESHUUS        

1925   TARTUFFE/TARTÜFF

1926   MARRIED LIFE/GIFTAS       

1926   THE TWO BROTHERS/DIE BRÜDER SCHELLENBERG

1927   DISCORD/HIS ENGLISH WIFE        

1927   ONLY A DANCING GIRL/NUR EINE TÄNZERIN        

1928   LE TOURBILLON DE PARIS   

1929   DIE EHE       

1929   HUNGARIAN NIGHTS/ES FLÜSTERT DIE NACHT    

1929   HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY/UNGARISCHE RHAPSODIE

1929   LE GRANDE PASSION

1929   MONTE CRISTO       

1930   BOYKOTT     

1930   DAS ALTE LIED       

1930   THE WHITE DEVIL/DER WEISSE TEUFEL   

1931   THE CONGRESS DANCES/DER KONGRESS TANZT  

1931   ELISABETH VON OESTERREICH      

1932   BARBERINA—DIE TÄNZERIN VON SANS-SOUCI     

1932   THE WOMAN FROM MONTE CARLO 

1933   JOHANNISNACHT     

1934   DER FLÜCHTLING AUS CHICAGO    

1934   EINE FRAU DIE WEISS WAS SIE WILL      

1934   ORIENT EXPRESS     

1935   DER HÖHERE BEFEHL

1935   LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN/LADY WINDERMERES FÄCHER 

1936   AUGUST DER STARKE         

1936   DAS MÄDCHEN IRENE

1936   FRIDERICUS  

1936   SCHLUSSAKKORD     

1937   THE KREUTZER SONATA/DIE KREUTZERSONATE  

1938   DREIKLANG   

1940   BISMARCK    

1940   FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

1944   MUSIK IN SALZBURG

1950   ES KOMMT EIN TAG 

1958   THE CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL                                               DIE BEKENNTNISSE DES HOCHSTAPLERS FELIX KRULL        

1959   BUDDENBROOKS      

1961   DIE SELTSAME GRÄFIN       

1961   THE STRANGE COUNTESS   

1974   THE PEDESTRIAN/DER FUSSGÄNGER        

1976   END OF THE GAME/DER RICHTER UND SEIN HENKER                 GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER      

1977   DIE STANDARTE