Lil Dagover
September 29, 1887
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…
Known For
7 titles
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
Tartuffe
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
Phantom
A shiftless young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman and yearns to find her again.
The Spiders - Episode 1: The Golden Sea
Kay Hoog finds a message that indicates that some Incas are still alive, but the secret organisation "Die Spinnen" wants the Incas' gold....
End of the Game
When a Swiss cop is murdered, a veteran homicide inspector and a rookie are assigned to solve the case but they are obstructed by interfering Swiss politicians.
The Strange Countess
A girl is almost murdered, but no explainable motive can be found until a 20 year old murder is uncovered and linked to the case.
The Final Chord
A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way i...