Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 19, 1922
Place of Birth:
Berlin, Germany
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Dora Doll
Biography
Dora Doll, the daughter of a Russian-Jewish banker who was expelled after the 1917 Revolution, was born in Berlin in 1922. She came to France at the end of the 1930s and aspired to become an actress. She already spoke Russian and German and soon learned French, then Italian and English.
One of her first screen appearances was as Juliette in Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949). She appeared as Lola in Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) and as Genisse in Jean Renoir's French Cancan (1955).
In 1976, she appeared on television in the French series Hôtel Baltimore in the role of Suzy. In 1977, she appeared in Fred Zinnemann's Julia as the woman passenger accompanying Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) when Lily smuggled $50,000 through Nazi Germany for her friend Julia (Vanessa Redgrave). In 1982, she played in Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes. In the late 1990s, she played the grandmother Louise Chantreuil in the TV series Tide of Life.
She was married twice. Her first husband was the actor Raymond Pellegrin, who she had a daughter with, Danielle. She was later married to François Deguelt.
In 1993, Dora Doll was awarded the Prix "Reconnaissance des cinéphiles" from Puget-Théniers in honour of her life's work. She was made Knight of France's National Order of Merit in 2000.
Dora Doll died on 15 November 2015 at her home in Gard, France, at the age of 93.
Source: Article "Dora Doll" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jacquou the Rebel | Fantille |
| 2006 | Comme t'y es belle ! | Mémé |
| 2005 | You Are So Beautiful | Catherine |
| 2002 | Et demain, Paula ? | Andrée |
| 2000 | Return to Algiers | Paula Azera |
| 1997 | Sapho | |
| 1994 | Torment | Mme Chabert |
| 1994 | Le Chambon | Emilienne |
| 1993 | Pas d'amour sans amour! | Rose, la mère |
| 1993 | Morasseix!!! | The mother |
| 1993 | Édith Piaf : Une brève rencontre | Fréhel |
| 1991 | Maria the Wolf | La Juine |
| 1988 | Once More | La mère |
| 1987 | The Two Crocodiles | Félicité |
| 1987 | François Villon: The Maverick Poet | Margot matroana bordelului |
| 1987 | Lady Cops | Mme Lou |
| 1987 | Cloud Waltzing | Madame Solange |
| 1987 | Maniac Killer | Dorine |
| 1986 | Gros dégueulasse | La serveuse choucroute |
| 1985 | Angel of Death | Sarah |
| 1985 | Le voyage à Paimpol | La mère de Maryvonne |
| 1984 | Ave Maria | Constance |
| 1984 | Bastille | Mw. Friedlander |
| 1983 | Doctor Lerne, Subgod | Honorine |
| 1982 | The Night of Varennes | Nanette Precy |
| 1982 | Le Secret des Andrônes | Rosa Chamboulive |
| 1980 | Les Charlots contre Dracula | Commissioner Gluck |
| 1979 | Les givrés | Mme Gruber |
| 1979 | Hothead | Head nun |
| 1978 | Violette Nozière | Madame Mayeul |
| 1978 | Monsieur Saint-Saëns | La lingère |
| 1978 | Les filles du régiment | Alphonsine, dite Fonfon, dite Pente-Douce |
| 1978 | Women in Cellblock 9 | Loba |
| 1978 | Grandison | Attendant |
| 1977 | Julia | Woman Passenger |
| 1977 | Peppermint Soda | The Gymnastics Teacher |
| 1976 | Boomerang | Ginette |
| 1976 | Black and White in Color | Maryvonne |
| 1976 | Femmes Fatales | Simone, captain of the soldiers |
| 1976 | Shattered Dreams | Lisa |
| 1975 | Catherine & Co. | Mère de Catherine |
| 1975 | En grandes pompes | Miss Lamour |
| 1975 | Incorrigible | Thérèse, bar cashier |
| 1975 | Godefinger ou Certaines chattes n'aiment pas le mou | Rose, Brother mistress |
| 1974 | Bloody Murder | Pascale Effront |
| 1972 | Les Déracinés | |
| 1972 | Hellé | |
| 1970 | La Liberté en croupe | Suzanne |
| 1969 | Les Eaux mêlées | La serveuse |
| 1965 | Pas de caviar pour tante Olga | Rosa Patache |
| 1964 | A Mouse with the Men | Catherine |
| 1963 | Any Number Can Win | Countess Doublianoff |
| 1962 | Le dernier quart d'heure | Portière |
| 1961 | Cocagne | Hélène |
| 1961 | Secret File 1413 | L'entraîneuse qui drogue Baranger |
| 1961 | Première brigade criminelle | Julia Manton |
| 1960 | Queen of the Tabarin Club | Cabaret Singer |
| 1960 | Les frangines | Jeanine - la servante |
| 1959 | The Magnificent Tramp | Mme Lucette Pichon |
| 1959 | 125 rue Montmartre | Germaine Montillier, dite Mémène |
| 1959 | The Enigma of the Folies-Bergère | Clara |
| 1959 | Witness in the City | Prostitute (uncredited) |
| 1958 | The Young Lions | Simone |
| 1958 | Miss Pigalle | Pascaline |
| 1957 | The Fast Set | Rita |
| 1957 | What a Team! | Vicky |
| 1957 | Adorables démons | Barbara Onisse |
| 1957 | Love Descends from the Sky | Véra |
| 1957 | Pas de grisbi pour Ricardo | Brigitte |
| 1957 | Le colonel est de la revue | Cora, la Sanglante |
| 1957 | Quelle sacrée soirée | Lola Wander |
| 1956 | Tides of Passion | Mariotte Borderet |
| 1956 | Main Street | Tonia |
| 1956 | Fernand cow-boy | Mae Marlene |
| 1956 | Elena and Her Men | Rosa la Rose |
| 1956 | Soupçons | Angèle Amélie Jeanne Mersch |
| 1955 | Napoleon | 'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited) |
| 1955 | French Cancan | La Génisse |
| 1955 | The Little Rebels | Mrs. Lecarnoy |
| 1955 | Nana | Rose Mignon |
| 1955 | Le Crâneur | Betty Bell |
| 1955 | La Môme Pigalle | Catherine, la fiancée "éternelle" de Félix |
| 1955 | Pleasures and Vices | Josepha Marewska |
| 1955 | Pas de souris dans le business | Mado |
| 1955 | We're Moving the Colonel | Flora |
| 1955 | No Mercy for the Cellers | Jessy |
| 1955 | Girl on the Third Floor | Louise Richter |
| 1954 | Touchez Pas au Grisbi | Lola |
| 1954 | Obsession | L'entraîneuse |
| 1954 | La cage aux souris | 'Salade', kitchen aid |
| 1954 | La fille perdue | Suzy |
| 1954 | Daughters of Destiny | A girl (segment "Jeanne") |
| 1954 | Les impures | Lili, une fille |
| 1954 | Yours Truly, Blake | Isabelle |
| 1953 | Other Side of Paradise | Michèle |
| 1953 | Mr. Scrupule, Gangster | |
| 1953 | Illicit Motherhood | Anita, la sœur de Doudou |
| 1952 | Dans la vie tout s'arrange | Yvette |
| 1951 | The Passerby | Irma |
| 1951 | Savage Triangle | La blonde amie de Paul |
| 1951 | Paris Vice Squad | Dora Bourbon, une victime du sadique |
| 1951 | The Red Rose | Evelyne Dorsey, movie star |
| 1951 | Pardon My French | Yvette |
| 1950 | Bed for Two | Miss Paulette |
| 1950 | A Man Walks in the City | Girl |
| 1949 | Thus Finishes the Night | |
| 1949 | The Wizard of Heaven | Benoîte |
| 1949 | The Passenger | Colette Mouche |
| 1949 | Manon | Juliette |
| 1947 | Inspector Sergil | Sandra Grégoriff |
| 1947 | The House Under the Sea | Prostitute |
| 1946 | Devil and the Angel | Lenoir's secretary |
| 1943 | The Heart of a Nation | (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Parade in 7 Nights | Monique, friend of Irène (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Night in December | Une fille de la bande (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Moulin Rouge | |
| 1940 | Beating Heart | La secrétaire |
| 1939 | Cordial Agreement | Extra (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Four Flights to Love | (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Curtain Rises | Une élève du Conservatoire (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Hôtel du Nord | Une femme au restaurant (uncredited) |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Le Grand Batre | Annette |
| 1996 | Les Allumettes suédoises | Albertine Huque |
| 1993 | The Castle of Olive Trees | Amélie Boucoiran |
| 1992 | Les Cœurs brûlés | Marie-Thérèse Fromentin |
| 1992 | Princesse Alexandra | Madame Humeau |
| 1989 | Sabbath | La Juine |
| 1986 | Catherine | Ermengarde de Chateauvillain |
| 1983 | Marianne, une étoile pour Napoléon | ' Fanchon Fleur de Lys' |
| 1978 | Les Hommes de Rose | Rose Dupuy |
| 1975 | Midi Première | Self |
| 1974 | Un curé de choc | Julia Michalet |
| 1958 | Les Cinq Dernières Minutes | La gardienne |