Dora Doll
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.
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La gardienne
Marianne, une étoile pour Napoléon
' Fanchon Fleur de Lys'
Un curé de choc
Julia Michalet
The Castle of Olive Trees
Amélie Boucoiran
Catherine
Ermengarde de Chateauvillain
Les Cœurs brûlés
Marie-Thérèse Fromentin
Sabbath
La Juine
Princesse Alexandra
Madame Humeau
Les Allumettes suédoises
Albertine Huque
Le Grand Batre
Annette
Les Hommes de Rose
Rose Dupuy
Women in Cellblock 9
Loba
The Young Lions
Simone
Julia
Woman Passenger
Any Number Can Win
Countess Doublianoff
Torment
Mme Chabert
Femmes Fatales
Simone, captain of the soldiers
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Lola
The Night of Varennes
Nanette Precy
French Cancan
La Génisse
Incorrigible
Thérèse, bar cashier
Jacquou the Rebel
Fantille
Napoleon
'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)
Peppermint Soda
The Gymnastics Teacher
The Heart of a Nation
(uncredited)
You Are So Beautiful
Catherine
Nana
Rose Mignon
Main Street
Tonia
Elena and Her Men
Rosa la Rose
The Little Rebels
Mrs. Lecarnoy
Hôtel du Nord
Une femme au restaurant (uncredited)
Violette Nozière
Madame Mayeul
Manon
Juliette
Hothead
Head nun
125 rue Montmartre
Germaine Montillier, dite Mémène
Witness in the City
Prostitute (uncredited)
A Mouse with the Men
Catherine
Le voyage à Paimpol
La mère de Maryvonne
Boomerang
Ginette
Black and White in Color
Maryvonne
Angel of Death
Sarah
Devil and the Angel
Lenoir's secretary
Moulin Rouge
Catherine & Co.
Mère de Catherine
The House Under the Sea
Prostitute
Daughters of Destiny
A girl (segment "Jeanne")
Night in December
Une fille de la bande (uncredited)
Obsession
L'entraîneuse
La Môme Pigalle
Catherine, la fiancée "éternelle" de Félix
Le colonel est de la revue
Cora, la Sanglante
The Curtain Rises
Une élève du Conservatoire (uncredited)
The Passerby
Irma
Les impures
Lili, une fille
The Magnificent Tramp
Mme Lucette Pichon
Cordial Agreement
Extra (uncredited)
Four Flights to Love
(uncredited)
Dans la vie tout s'arrange
Yvette
Gros dégueulasse
La serveuse choucroute
We're Moving the Colonel
Flora
Les Charlots contre Dracula
Commissioner Gluck
Bloody Murder
Pascale Effront
Comme t'y es belle !
Mémé
Paris Vice Squad
Dora Bourbon, une victime du sadique
Illicit Motherhood
Anita, la sœur de Doudou
The Wizard of Heaven
Benoîte
Girl on the Third Floor
Louise Richter
The Two Crocodiles
Félicité
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
Rosa Patache
The Passenger
Colette Mouche
Hellé
Secret File 1413
L'entraîneuse qui drogue Baranger
Pleasures and Vices
Josepha Marewska
Pas d'amour sans amour!
Rose, la mère
Queen of the Tabarin Club
Cabaret Singer
Fernand cow-boy
Mae Marlene
Ave Maria
Constance
Cloud Waltzing
Madame Solange
Grandison
Attendant
Cocagne
Hélène
No Mercy for the Cellers
Jessy
La Liberté en croupe
Suzanne
The Enigma of the Folies-Bergère
Clara
Maniac Killer
Dorine
Pas de souris dans le business
Mado
Beating Heart
La secrétaire
Sapho
Édith Piaf : Une brève rencontre
Fréhel
Le Crâneur
Betty Bell
Bastille
Mw. Friedlander
Other Side of Paradise
Michèle
Les filles du régiment
Alphonsine, dite Fonfon, dite Pente-Douce
Thus Finishes the Night
Pardon My French
Yvette
Doctor Lerne, Subgod
Honorine
A Man Walks in the City
Girl
François Villon: The Maverick Poet
Margot matroana bordelului
Lady Cops
Mme Lou
Pas de grisbi pour Ricardo
Brigitte
Parade in 7 Nights
Monique, friend of Irène (uncredited)
Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
Quelle sacrée soirée
Lola Wander
La fille perdue
Suzy
Le Secret des Andrônes
Rosa Chamboulive
Bed for Two
Miss Paulette
Inspector Sergil
Sandra Grégoriff
Love Descends from the Sky
Véra
Morasseix!!!
The mother
Monsieur Saint-Saëns
La lingère
What a Team!
Vicky
The Fast Set
Rita
Once More
La mère
Shattered Dreams
Lisa
Return to Algiers
Paula Azera
La cage aux souris
'Salade', kitchen aid
Première brigade criminelle
Julia Manton
Savage Triangle
La blonde amie de Paul
Godefinger ou Certaines chattes n'aiment pas le mou
Rose, Brother mistress
The Red Rose
Evelyne Dorsey, movie star
Adorables démons
Barbara Onisse
Le Chambon
Emilienne
Le dernier quart d'heure
Portière
Soupçons
Angèle Amélie Jeanne Mersch
En grandes pompes
Miss Lamour
Les Eaux mêlées
La serveuse
Les frangines
Jeanine - la servante
Miss Pigalle
Pascaline
Les Déracinés
Yours Truly, Blake
Isabelle
Tides of Passion
Mariotte Borderet
Et demain, Paula ?
Andrée
Maria the Wolf
La Juine
Les givrés
Mme Gruber