Egon Brecher
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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.
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Filme (80)
So Dark the Night
1946 · Dr. Boncourt
Sister Kenny
1946 · Frenchman (uncredited)
O.S.S.
1946 · Marcel Aubert
Just Before Dawn
1946 · Dr. Evans (uncredited)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · The Postman (Uncredited)
Cornered
1945
White Pongo
1945 · Dr. Gerig
Voice of the Whistler
1945 · Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
A Royal Scandal
1945 · Wassilikow (uncredited)
Above Suspicion
1943 · Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
1943 · Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
Isle of Missing Men
1942 · Richard Heller
For the Common Defense!
1942 · Adolph (uncredited)
Kings Row
1942 · Dr. Candell
Manpower
1941 · Pop Duval
Underground
1941 · Herr Director
Man Hunt
1941 · Jeweler
Out of Darkness
1941 · Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
Four Mothers
1941 · Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940 · Von Konstat (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
1940 · Elder in Norway (uncredited)
Buyer Beware
1940 · Child's Father (uncredited)
The Man I Married
1940 · Czech
All This, and Heaven Too
1940 · Doctor (uncredited)
I Was an Adventuress
1940 · Jacques Dubois
Rebecca
1940 · Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940 · Martl
Calling Philo Vance
1940 · Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Know Your Money
1940 · Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
Judge Hardy and Son
1939 · Anton Volduzzi
We Are Not Alone
1939 · Mr. Adolf Schiller
Espionage Agent
1939 · Larsch
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939 · Dr. Gunther
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939 · Mr. Smith
Juarez
1939 · Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Hotel Imperial
1939 · Pograncz (uncredited)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939 · Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
While America Sleeps
1939 · Klaus
The Three Musketeers
1939 · Landlord
Devil's Island
1939 · Debriac
Spring Madness
1938 · Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
Suez
1938 · Doctor
Gateway
1938 · Rabbi
I'll Give a Million
1938 · Citizen
Racket Busters
1938 · Peters (uncredited)
You and Me
1938 · Mr. Levine
Cocoanut Grove
1938 · Pawnbroker
Invisible Enemy
1938 · Kirman
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938 · Vasseur (uncredited)
Blondes at Work
1938 · J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
The Spy Ring
1938 · General A. R. Bowen
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937 · Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Heidi
1937 · Inn Keeper
The Women Men Marry
1937 · John (uncredited)
I Met Him in Paris
1937 · Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
Espionage
1937 · Chief of Police
The Great O'Malley
1937 · Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Stolen Holiday
1937 · Deputy Bergery
Black Legion
1937 · Dombrowski
Alibi for Murder
1936 · Sir Conrad Stava
The Devil-Doll
1936 · Detective (uncredited)
The White Angel
1936 · Pastor Fliedner
Sins of Man
1936 · Doctor
Till We Meet Again
1936 · Schultz
Boulder Dam
1936 · Pa Vangarick
Paddy O'Day
1936 · Russian Musician
Charlie Chan's Secret
1936 · Ulrich
Here's to Romance
1935 · Descartes
Werewolf of London
1935 · Priest (uncredited)
Air Hawks
1935 · Schulter's Henchman
Mark of the Vampire
1935 · Coroner (uncredited)
The Florentine Dagger
1935 · Karl
Now and Forever
1934 · Doctor (uncredited)
Many Happy Returns
1934 · Dr. Otto von Strudel
The Black Cat
1934 · The Majordomo
No Greater Glory
1934 · Racz
As the Earth Turns
1934 · Mr. Janowski
Convention City
1933 · Zorb
To the Last Man
1933 · Mark Hayden
Die Königsloge
1929
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