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name: "Lil Dagover"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lil-dagover"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 September 1887"
died: "23 January 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T11:29:56.322004+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Lil Dagover

Actor. Born 29 September 1887 in Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]. Died 23 January 1980.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 September 1887, Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia]
- **Died:** 23 January 1980
- **Also known as:** Лиль Даговер, Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert

## Biography

Lil Dagover was a German actress whose career spanned from 1913 to 1979. Born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert on 30 September 1887 in Madiun, Java, in the Dutch East Indies, she made her screen debut in Fritz Lang's *Harakiri* (1919).

She achieved international recognition for her role as Jane in Robert Wiene's expressionist film *The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari* (1920). Dagover appeared in other notable silent films including *Destiny* (1921) and *Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler* (1922). She continued working in German cinema through the sound era and into the 1970s, with later credits including *Scene of the Crime* (1970).

Dagover received the Bundesfilmpreis in 1962 and the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1967. She died in Munich on 23 January 1980.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari* (1920), Fi1m 87, as Jane — [page](https://film.one/film/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari.md)

## Also known for

- *Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler* (1922), (uncredited)
- *Destiny* (1921), Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), Mutter Koenen
- *Tartuffe* (1926), Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
- *Phantom* (1922), Marie Starke
- *The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea* (1919), Sun Priestess Naela

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