Dora Doll
1922-05-19 ( 102 years old ) in Berlin, Germany

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.

Movies

Sapho 1997-01-21
Le Chambon 1994-10-03
Torment 1994-02-16
Morasseix!!! 1993-01-01
Maria the Wolf 1991-12-10
Once More 1988-05-27
Lady Cops 1987-12-16
Maniac Killer 1987-09-02
Cloud Waltzing 1987-02-14
Angel of Death 1985-07-23
Ave Maria 1984-10-31
Bastille 1984-05-10
Les givrés 1979-03-28
Hothead 1979-02-14
Grandison 1978-03-28
Julia 1977-10-01
Boomerang 1976-08-15
Femmes Fatales 1976-02-11
Incorrigible 1975-10-15
Bloody Murder 1974-03-06
Hellé 1972-05-02
Cocagne 1961-03-08
Les frangines 1960-02-10
Miss Pigalle 1958-07-25
The Fast Set 1957-11-12
What a Team! 1957-01-11
Soupçons 1956-11-23
Main Street 1956-10-26
Nana 1955-07-26
Le Crâneur 1955-05-10
Napoleon 1955-03-25
French Cancan 1954-12-27
Obsession 1954-10-28
Les impures 1954-04-07
The Passerby 1951-05-18
The Red Rose 1951-02-06
Bed for Two 1950-08-23
The Passenger 1949-11-04
Manon 1949-03-09
Moulin Rouge 1940-12-08
Beating Heart 1940-02-01
Hôtel du Nord 1938-12-17