Dora Doll
Actor
- Born
- May 19, 1922 · Berlin, Germany
- Died
- November 15, 2015 (age 93)
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).
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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
Torment
February 16, 1994
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
March 17, 1954
Any Number Can Win
March 19, 1963
Jenny Lamour
October 4, 1947
You Are So Beautiful
November 7, 2005
Julia
October 1, 1977
Comme t'y es belle !
May 10, 2006
Hôtel du Nord
December 17, 1938
Hothead
February 14, 1979
Jacquou the Rebel
January 17, 2007
The Young Lions
April 2, 1958
Main Street
October 26, 1956
Acting125
- 2007Jacquou the Rebel as Fantille
- 2006Comme t'y es belle ! as Mémé
- 2005You Are So Beautiful as Catherine
- 2002Et demain, Paula ? as Andrée
- 2000Return to Algiers as Paula Azera
- 1997Sapho
- 1994Le Chambon as Emilienne
- 1994Torment as Mme Chabert
- 1993Édith Piaf : Une brève rencontre as Fréhel
- 1993Pas d'amour sans amour! as Rose, la mère