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.
Acting
Movie
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
as Lola
1954
Movie
Torment
as Mme Chabert
1994
Movie
Any Number Can Win
as Countess Doublianoff
1963
Movie
Jenny Lamour
as Léa (uncredited)
1947
Movie
You Are So Beautiful
as Catherine
2005
Movie
Comme t'y es belle !
as Mémé
2006
Movie
Julia
as Woman Passenger
1977
Movie
Hôtel du Nord
as Une femme au restaurant (uncredited)
1938
Movie
Hothead
as Head nun
1979
Movie
Jacquou the Rebel
as Fantille
2007
Movie
The Young Lions
as Simone
1958
Movie
Main Street
as Tonia
1956
Movie
Femmes Fatales
as Simone, Captain of the Soldiers
1976
Movie
Incorrigible
as Thérèse, bar cashier
1975
Movie
Peppermint Soda
as The Gymnastics Teacher
1977
Movie
French Cancan
as La Génisse
1955
Movie
Violette Nozière
as Madame Mayeul
1978
Movie
125 rue Montmartre
as Germaine Montillier, dite Mémène
1959
Movie
That Night of Varennes
as Nanette Precy
1982
Movie
Manon
as Juliette
1949
Movie
Elena and Her Men
as Rosa la Rose
1956
Movie
Women in Cellblock 9
as Loba
1978
Movie
Witness in the City
as Prostitute (uncredited)
1959
Movie
Black and White in Color
as Maryvonne
1976