Egon Brecher
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Egon Brecher (18 February 1880 – 12 August 1946) was an Austria-Hungary-born actor and director, who also served as the chief director of Vienna's Stadts Theatre, before entering the motion picture industry. The son of a professor, Brecher began studying philosophy in 1900 at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He did not finish his studies, deciding to become an actor. He appeared on several provincial stages in Germany and Austria until 1910, and then played in Vienna on various occasions, directed by Josef Jarno until 1921. In 1907, he founded an initiative (which lasted for something like one or two years) to play modern Yiddish theatre in German language with Siegfried Schmitz and members of the student club ‘Theodor Herzl’ like Hugo Zuckermann and Oskar Rosenfeld. In 1919 he was co-founder of the Freie Jüdische Volksbühne in Vienna, a Yiddish theatre, which existed for three years. Then, in 1921, he moved to New York to act on Broadway. He moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s to appear in foreign-language versions of American films. In the mid-1930s he appeared in classic horror films The Black Cat, Werewolf of London, The Black Room, Mark of the Vampire and The Devil-Doll, and worked steadily in the espionage films of the 1930s/40s, his Slavic accent landing him roles both noble and villainous. One of his largest screen roles was in 1946's So Dark the Night. He died later in 1946, aged 66, of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California.
Known For
Pop Duval
Manpower
The Majordomo
The Black Cat
Ulrich
Charlie Chan's Secret
Dr. Boncourt
So Dark the Night
Zorb
Convention City
Karl
The Florentine Dagger
Die Königsloge
Dr. Candell
Kings Row
Doctor (uncredited)
Now and Forever
Anton Volduzzi
Judge Hardy and Son
Mr. Smith
Angels Wash Their Faces
Mr. Levine
You and Me
Richard Heller
Isle of Missing Men
Deputy Bergery
Stolen Holiday
Schulter's Henchman
Air Hawks
Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
I Met Him in Paris
Mark Hayden
To the Last Man
Detective (uncredited)
The Devil-Doll
Mr. Janowski
As the Earth Turns
Inn Keeper
Heidi
Jacques Dubois
I Was an Adventuress
John (uncredited)
The Women Men Marry
Jeweler
Man Hunt
Sir Conrad Stava
Alibi for Murder
Peters (uncredited)
Racket Busters
Citizen
I'll Give a Million
Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Pawnbroker
Cocoanut Grove
Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
Spring Madness
Pastor Fliedner
The White Angel
Russian Musician
Paddy O'Day
Debriac
Devil's Island
Landlord
The Three Musketeers
Pa Vangarick
Boulder Dam
Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Juarez
Mr. Adolf Schiller
We Are Not Alone
Dr. Gunther
Nurse Edith Cavell
Larsch
Espionage Agent
Vasseur (uncredited)
Arsène Lupin Returns
Marcel Aubert
O.S.S.
Frenchman (uncredited)
Sister Kenny
Racz
No Greater Glory
Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
The Great O'Malley
Chief of Police
Espionage
Doctor
Sins of Man
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Rebecca
Martl
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Calling Philo Vance
Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
Voice of the Whistler
Dr. Evans (uncredited)
Just Before Dawn
Herr Director
Underground
Descartes
Here's to Romance
Doctor (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
Kirman
Invisible Enemy
Rabbi
Gateway
Von Konstat (uncredited)
A Dispatch from Reuters
Elder in Norway (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
Czech
The Man I Married
General A. R. Bowen
The Spy Ring
Dr. Gerig
White Pongo
Klaus
While America Sleeps
Child's Father (uncredited)
Buyer Beware
Pograncz (uncredited)
Hotel Imperial
Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
Four Mothers
Coroner (uncredited)
Mark of the Vampire
Doctor
Suez
Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
Know Your Money
Adolph (uncredited)
For the Common Defense!
Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Above Suspicion
J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
Blondes at Work
Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
Out of Darkness
Dombrowski
Black Legion
Wassilikow (uncredited)
A Royal Scandal
Schultz
Till We Meet Again
The Postman (Uncredited)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Dr. Otto von Strudel
Many Happy Returns
Priest (uncredited)
Werewolf of London
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
79
Gender
Male
Birthday
1880-02-15
Place of Birth
Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
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