About
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...
Known for
Les Cinq Dernières MinutesSeries • 1958
JuliaMovie • 1977
TormentMovie • 1994
The Young LionsMovie • 1958
Femmes FatalesMovie • 1976
Touchez Pas au GrisbiMovie • 1954
French CancanMovie • 1955
Elena and Her MenMovie • 1956
Any Number Can WinMovie • 1963
NapoleonMovie • 1955
That Night of VarennesMovie • 1982
IncorrigibleMovie • 1975
BoomerangMovie • 1976
Hôtel du NordMovie • 1938
ManonMovie • 1949
Jenny LamourMovie • 1947
A Mouse with the MenMovie • 1964
Women in Cellblock 9Movie • 1978
Witness in the CityMovie • 1959
The Little RebelsMovie • 1955
HotheadMovie • 1979
Jacquou the RebelMovie • 2007
Peppermint SodaMovie • 1977
You Are So BeautifulMovie • 2005