Egon Brecher
Acting • Born 1880-02-15 – Died 1946-08-12
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.
Filmography
79 credits
Manpower
Movie • 1941
Pop Duval
The Black Cat
Movie • 1934
The Majordomo
Charlie Chan's Secret
Movie • 1936
Ulrich
So Dark the Night
Movie • 1946
Dr. Boncourt
Convention City
Movie • 1933
Zorb
The Florentine Dagger
Movie • 1935
Karl
Die Königsloge
Movie • 1929
Kings Row
Movie • 1942
Dr. Candell
Now and Forever
Movie • 1934
Doctor (uncredited)
Judge Hardy and Son
Movie • 1939
Anton Volduzzi
Angels Wash Their Faces
Movie • 1939
Mr. Smith
You and Me
Movie • 1938
Mr. Levine
Isle of Missing Men
Movie • 1942
Richard Heller
Stolen Holiday
Movie • 1937
Deputy Bergery
Air Hawks
Movie • 1935
Schulter's Henchman
I Met Him in Paris
Movie • 1937
Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
To the Last Man
Movie • 1933
Mark Hayden
The Devil-Doll
Movie • 1936
Detective (uncredited)
As the Earth Turns
Movie • 1934
Mr. Janowski
Heidi
Movie • 1937
Inn Keeper
I Was an Adventuress
Movie • 1940
Jacques Dubois
The Women Men Marry
Movie • 1937
John (uncredited)
Man Hunt
Movie • 1941
Jeweler
Alibi for Murder
Movie • 1936
Sir Conrad Stava
Racket Busters
Movie • 1938
Peters (uncredited)
I'll Give a Million
Movie • 1938
Citizen
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Movie • 1937
Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Cocoanut Grove
Movie • 1938
Pawnbroker
Spring Madness
Movie • 1938
Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
The White Angel
Movie • 1936
Pastor Fliedner
Paddy O'Day
Movie • 1936
Russian Musician
Devil's Island
Movie • 1939
Debriac
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 1939
Landlord
Boulder Dam
Movie • 1936
Pa Vangarick
Juarez
Movie • 1939
Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Movie • 1939
Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
We Are Not Alone
Movie • 1939
Mr. Adolf Schiller
Nurse Edith Cavell
Movie • 1939
Dr. Gunther
Espionage Agent
Movie • 1939
Larsch
Arsène Lupin Returns
Movie • 1938
Vasseur (uncredited)
O.S.S.
Movie • 1946
Marcel Aubert
No Greater Glory
Movie • 1934
Racz
Sister Kenny
Movie • 1946
Frenchman (uncredited)
The Great O'Malley
Movie • 1937
Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Espionage
Movie • 1937
Chief of Police
Sins of Man
Movie • 1936
Doctor
Rebecca
Movie • 1940
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Movie • 1940
Martl
Calling Philo Vance
Movie • 1940
Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Voice of the Whistler
Movie • 1945
Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
Just Before Dawn
Movie • 1946
Dr. Evans (uncredited)
Underground
Movie • 1941
Herr Director
Here's to Romance
Movie • 1935
Descartes
All This, and Heaven Too
Movie • 1940
Doctor (uncredited)
Invisible Enemy
Movie • 1938
Kirman
Gateway
Movie • 1938
Rabbi
A Dispatch from Reuters
Movie • 1940
Von Konstat (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
Movie • 1940
Elder in Norway (uncredited)
The Man I Married
Movie • 1940
Czech
The Spy Ring
Movie • 1938
General A. R. Bowen
White Pongo
Movie • 1945
Dr. Gerig
While America Sleeps
Movie • 1939
Klaus
Buyer Beware
Movie • 1940
Child's Father (uncredited)
Hotel Imperial
Movie • 1939
Pograncz (uncredited)
Four Mothers
Movie • 1941
Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
Mark of the Vampire
Movie • 1935
Coroner (uncredited)
Suez
Movie • 1938
Doctor
Know Your Money
Movie • 1940
Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
For the Common Defense!
Movie • 1942
Adolph (uncredited)
Above Suspicion
Movie • 1943
Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Blondes at Work
Movie • 1938
J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
Movie • 1943
Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
Out of Darkness
Movie • 1941
Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
Black Legion
Movie • 1937
Dombrowski
A Royal Scandal
Movie • 1945
Wassilikow (uncredited)
Till We Meet Again
Movie • 1936
Schultz
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Movie • 1946
The Postman (Uncredited)
Werewolf of London
Movie • 1935
Priest (uncredited)
Many Happy Returns
Movie • 1934
Dr. Otto von Strudel