Egon Brecher
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 15, 1880
- Died
- August 12, 1946 (aged 66)
- Birthplace
- Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
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
Filmography
So Dark the Night
Movie · as Dr. Boncourt
O.S.S.
Movie · as Marcel Aubert
Sister Kenny
Movie · as Frenchman (uncredited)
Just Before Dawn
Movie · as Dr. Evans (uncredited)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Movie · as The Postman (Uncredited)
Voice of the Whistler
Movie · as Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
White Pongo
Movie · as Dr. Gerig
A Royal Scandal
Movie · as Wassilikow (uncredited)
Cornered
Movie
Above Suspicion
Movie · as Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
Movie · as Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
Kings Row
Movie · as Dr. Candell
Isle of Missing Men
Movie · as Richard Heller
For the Common Defense!
Movie · as Adolph (uncredited)
Manpower
Movie · as Pop Duval
Man Hunt
Movie · as Jeweler
Underground
Movie · as Herr Director
Four Mothers
Movie · as Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
Out of Darkness
Movie · as Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
I Was an Adventuress
Movie · as Jacques Dubois
Rebecca
Movie · as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Movie · as Martl
Calling Philo Vance
Movie · as Austrian Judge (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
Movie · as Doctor (uncredited)
A Dispatch from Reuters
Movie · as Von Konstat (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
Movie · as Elder in Norway (uncredited)
The Man I Married
Movie · as Czech
Buyer Beware
Movie · as Child's Father (uncredited)
Know Your Money
Movie · as Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
Judge Hardy and Son
Movie · as Anton Volduzzi
Angels Wash Their Faces
Movie · as Mr. Smith
Devil's Island
Movie · as Debriac
The Three Musketeers
Movie · as Landlord
Juarez
Movie · as Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Movie · as Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
We Are Not Alone
Movie · as Mr. Adolf Schiller
Nurse Edith Cavell
Movie · as Dr. Gunther
Espionage Agent
Movie · as Larsch
While America Sleeps
Movie · as Klaus
Hotel Imperial
Movie · as Pograncz (uncredited)
You and Me
Movie · as Mr. Levine
Racket Busters
Movie · as Peters (uncredited)
I'll Give a Million
Movie · as Citizen
Cocoanut Grove
Movie · as Pawnbroker
Spring Madness
Movie · as Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
Arsène Lupin Returns
Movie · as Vasseur (uncredited)
Invisible Enemy
Movie · as Kirman
Gateway
Movie · as Rabbi
The Spy Ring
Movie · as General A. R. Bowen
Suez
Movie · as Doctor
Blondes at Work
Movie · as J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
Stolen Holiday
Movie · as Deputy Bergery
I Met Him in Paris
Movie · as Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
Heidi
Movie · as Inn Keeper
The Women Men Marry
Movie · as John (uncredited)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Movie · as Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
The Great O'Malley
Movie · as Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Espionage
Movie · as Chief of Police
Black Legion
Movie · as Dombrowski
Charlie Chan's Secret
Movie · as Ulrich
The Devil-Doll
Movie · as Detective (uncredited)
Alibi for Murder
Movie · as Sir Conrad Stava
The White Angel
Movie · as Pastor Fliedner
Paddy O'Day
Movie · as Russian Musician
Boulder Dam
Movie · as Pa Vangarick
Sins of Man
Movie · as Doctor
Till We Meet Again
Movie · as Schultz
The Florentine Dagger
Movie · as Karl
Air Hawks
Movie · as Schulter's Henchman
Here's to Romance
Movie · as Descartes
Mark of the Vampire
Movie · as Coroner (uncredited)
Werewolf of London
Movie · as Priest (uncredited)
The Black Cat
Movie · as The Majordomo
Now and Forever
Movie · as Doctor (uncredited)
As the Earth Turns
Movie · as Mr. Janowski
No Greater Glory
Movie · as Racz
Many Happy Returns
Movie · as Dr. Otto von Strudel
Convention City
Movie · as Zorb
To the Last Man
Movie · as Mark Hayden
Die Königsloge
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