FrameThrower · Actors · Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover
2 films · 127 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1920–1921
Born 29 September 1887 · Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia] · died 23 January 1980
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 expressionist film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (aka The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 127 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1920–1921
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany1967
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Bambi Award1964
- Filmband in Gold1962
- Filmband in Silber1954
- War Merit Cross1944
- Staatsschauspieler1937
How their films are shot
Measured across 127 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lil takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 61% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Lil takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 127 frames from Lil Dagover's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.