
Dora Doll
Born: 1922-05-19
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
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

Bloody Murder

You Are So Beautiful

The Night of Varennes

Édith Piaf : Une brève rencontre

Femmes Fatales

Torment

Incorrigible

The Magnificent Tramp

Les Charlots contre Dracula

Lady Cops

Les Frangines

Julia

Cordial Agreement

La cage aux souris

Napoleon

Peppermint Soda

The Passenger

Les impures

Night in December

The Young Lions

Manon

Shattered Dreams

Le voyage à Paimpol

Nana

Angel of Death

The Passerby

Violette Nozière

Maniac Killer

Catherine & Co.

Bastille

Paris Vice Squad

Four Flights to Love

Pas de souris dans le business

Le Crâneur

Cocagne

Hellé

Les Eaux mêlées

Grandison

Tides of Passion

Obsession

Cloud Waltzing

Morasseix!!!

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Pas d'amour sans amour!

La Môme Pigalle

Secret File 1413

The Little Rebels

French Cancan

Illicit Motherhood

Other Side of Paradise

Inspector Sergil

Les Déracinés

Any Number Can Win

Mr. Scrupule, Gangster

Women in Cellblock 9

The Heart of a Nation

Jacquou the Rebel

Hôtel du Nord

Superslob

Ave Maria

Les givrés

Once More

Elena and Her Men

Pardon My French

Fernand cow-boy

Parade in 7 Nights

Love Descends from the Sky

Quelle sacrée soirée

Hothead

François Villon: The Maverick Poet

Yours Truly, Blake

Boomerang

The Curtain Rises

Monsieur Saint-Saëns

The Red Rose

Pas de grisbi pour Ricardo

The Enigma of the Folies-Bergère

A Mouse with the Men

Witness in the City

125 rue Montmartre

The Wizard of Heaven

Black and White in Color

Thus Finishes the Night

Pleasures and Vices

Main Street

Comme t'y es belle !

Savage Triangle

Première brigade criminelle

La Liberté en croupe

The House Under the Sea

Beating Heart

The Fast Set

Dans la vie tout s'arrange

Return to Algiers

Les filles du régiment

We're Moving the Colonel

Godefinger ou Certaines chattes n'aiment pas le mou

Queen of the Tabarin Club

Bed for Two

Maria the Wolf

Soupçons

Sapho

Moulin Rouge

Daughters of Destiny

La fille perdue

Devil and the Angel

En grandes pompes

A Man Walks in the City

Pas de caviar pour tante Olga

Girl on the Third Floor

The Two Crocodiles

Le colonel est de la revue

Le Chambon

No Mercy for the Cellers
