Dora Doll
- Acting
- May 19, 1922 · Berlin, Germany
- November 15, 2015
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
- Jacquou the Rebel · Fantille
- Comme t'y es belle ! · Mémé
- You Are So Beautiful · Catherine
- Et demain, Paula ? · Andrée
- Return to Algiers · Paula Azera
- Le Grand Batre · Annette
- Sapho
- Les Allumettes suédoises · Albertine Huque
- Le Chambon · Emilienne
- Torment · Mme Chabert
- Édith Piaf : Une brève rencontre · Fréhel
- Pas d'amour sans amour! · Rose, la mère
- The Castle of Olive Trees · Amélie Boucoiran
- Morasseix!!! · The mother
- The Marked Woman · Mère Dorothée
- Les Cœurs brûlés · Marie-Thérèse Fromentin
- Princesse Alexandra · Madame Humeau
- Maria the Wolf · La Juine
- Ferbac · Mado
- Gueule d'arnaque · Rachel
- Sabbath · La Juine
- Once More · La mère
- Lady Cops · Mme Lou
- The Two Crocodiles · Félicité
- Maniac Killer · Dorine
- Cloud Waltzing · Madame Solange
- François Villon: The Maverick Poet · Margot matroana bordelului
- Superslob · La serveuse choucroute
- Catherine · Ermengarde de Chateauvillain
- Le voyage à Paimpol · La mère de Maryvonne
- Angel of Death · Sarah
- Ave Maria · Constance
- Bastille · Mw. Friedlander
- Doctor Lerne, Subgod · Honorine
- Marianne, une étoile pour Napoléon · ' Fanchon Fleur de Lys'
- Le Secret des Andrônes · Rosa Chamboulive
- That Night of Varennes · Nanette Precy
- L'étouffe grand-mère · Mère Grivot
- Les Charlots contre Dracula · Commissioner Gluck
- Les givrés · Mme Gruber
- Hothead · Head nun
- Monsieur Saint-Saëns · La lingère
- Les filles du régiment · Alphonsine, dite Fonfon, dite Pente-Douce
- Les Hommes de Rose · Rose Dupuy
- Violette Nozière · Madame Mayeul
- Grandison · Attendant
- Women in Cellblock 9 · Loba
- Peppermint Soda · The Gymnastics Teacher
- Julia · Woman Passenger
- Black and White in Color · Maryvonne
- Shattered Dreams · Lisa
- Boomerang · Ginette
- Femmes Fatales · Simone, Captain of the Soldiers
- Champagner aus dem Knobelbecher · Tintine
- Catherine & Co. · Mère de Catherine
- Incorrigible · Thérèse, bar cashier
- En grandes pompes · Miss Lamour
- Midi Première · Self
- Godefinger ou Certaines chattes n'aiment pas le mou · Rose, Brother mistress
- Un curé de choc · Julia Michalet
- Bloody Murder · Pascale Effront
- Les Déracinés
- Hellé
- La Liberté en croupe · Suzanne
- Les Eaux mêlées · La serveuse
- Pas de caviar pour tante Olga · Rosa Patache
- A Mouse with the Men · Catherine, la caissière des magasins Dufour
- Any Number Can Win · Countess Doublianoff
- Le Dernier Quart d'heure · Portière
- Secret File 1413 · L'entraîneuse qui drogue Baranger
- Première brigade criminelle · Julia Manton
- Cocagne · Hélène
- Queen of the Tabarin Club · Cabaret Singer
- Les Frangines · Jeanine - la servante
- The Enigma of the Folies-Bergère · Clara
- 125 rue Montmartre · Germaine Montillier, dite Mémène
- Witness in the City · Prostitute (uncredited)
- The Magnificent Tramp · Mme Lucette Pichon
- Miss Pigalle · Pascaline
- The Young Lions · Simone