Egon Brecher
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: February 15, 1880
Day of Death: August 12, 1946 (67 years old)
Place of Birth: Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
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.
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1940
Actor Jacques Dubois
I Was an Adventuress
Actor Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Rebecca
Actor Martl
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Actor Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Calling Philo Vance
Actor Doctor (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
Actor Von Konstat (uncredited)
A Dispatch from Reuters
Actor Elder in Norway (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
Actor Czech
The Man I Married
Actor Child's Father (uncredited)
Buyer Beware
Actor Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
Know Your Money
1939
Actor Anton Volduzzi
Judge Hardy and Son
Actor Mr. Smith
Angels Wash Their Faces
Actor Debriac
Devil's Island
Actor Landlord
The Three Musketeers
Actor Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Juarez
Actor Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Actor Mr. Adolf Schiller
We Are Not Alone
Actor Dr. Gunther
Nurse Edith Cavell
Actor Larsch
Espionage Agent
Actor Klaus
While America Sleeps
Actor Pograncz (uncredited)
Hotel Imperial
1938
Actor Mr. Levine
You and Me
Actor Peters (uncredited)
Racket Busters
Actor Citizen
I'll Give a Million
Actor Pawnbroker
Cocoanut Grove
Actor Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
Spring Madness
Actor Vasseur (uncredited)
Arsène Lupin Returns
Actor Kirman
Invisible Enemy
Actor Rabbi
Gateway
Actor General A. R. Bowen
The Spy Ring
Actor Doctor
Suez
Actor J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
Blondes at Work
1937
Actor Deputy Bergery
Stolen Holiday
Actor Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
I Met Him in Paris
Actor Inn Keeper
Heidi
Actor John (uncredited)
The Women Men Marry
Actor Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Actor Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
The Great O'Malley
Actor Chief of Police
Espionage
Actor Dombrowski
Black Legion
