Dora Doll

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.

Most Known For

Midi Première

as Self

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes

as La gardienne

Manon

as Juliette

Napoleon

as 'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)

Angel of Death

as Sarah

Morasseix!!!

as The mother

The Castle of Olive Trees

as Amélie Boucoiran

Violette Nozière

as Madame Mayeul

Shattered Dreams

as Lisa

Un curé de choc

as Julia Michalet

Paris Vice Squad

as Dora Bourbon, une victime du sadique

Les Déracinés

Secret File 1413

as L'entraîneuse qui drogue Baranger

Cocagne

as Hélène

Obsession

as L'entraîneuse

Once More

as La mère

Les Cœurs brûlés

as Marie-Thérèse Fromentin

Four Flights to Love

as (uncredited)

Femmes Fatales

as Simone, Captain of the Soldiers

Julia

as Woman Passenger