Egon Brecher
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1880-02-15
Day of Death
1946-08-12 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
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.
Acting
(1946)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
as The Postman (Uncredited)
(1946)
O.S.S.
as Marcel Aubert
(1946)
Just Before Dawn
as Dr. Evans (uncredited)
(1946)
Sister Kenny
as Frenchman (uncredited)
(1946)
So Dark the Night
as Dr. Boncourt
(1945)
Voice of the Whistler
as Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
(1945)
A Royal Scandal
as Wassilikow (uncredited)
(1945)
White Pongo
as Dr. Gerig
(1943)
Above Suspicion
as Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
(1943)
Mission to Moscow
as Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
(1942)
Kings Row
as Dr. Candell
(1942)
Isle of Missing Men
as Richard Heller
(1942)
For the Common Defense!
as Adolph (uncredited)
(1941)
Underground
as Herr Director
(1941)
Manpower
as Pop Duval
(1941)
Man Hunt
as Jeweler
(1941)
Four Mothers
as Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
(1941)
Out of Darkness
as Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
(1940)
Rebecca
as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
(1940)
All This, and Heaven Too
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1940)
Calling Philo Vance
as Austrian Judge (uncredited)
(1940)
The Man I Married
as Czech
(1940)
Knute Rockne All American
as Elder in Norway (uncredited)
(1940)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Martl
(1940)
A Dispatch from Reuters
as Von Konstat (uncredited)
(1940)
I Was an Adventuress
as Jacques Dubois
(1940)
Know Your Money
as Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
(1940)
Buyer Beware
as Child's Father (uncredited)
(1939)
The Three Musketeers
as Landlord
(1939)
Hotel Imperial
as Pograncz (uncredited)
(1939)
Juarez
as Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
(1939)
We Are Not Alone
as Mr. Adolf Schiller
(1939)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
(1939)
Devil's Island
as Debriac
(1939)
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Dr. Gunther
(1939)
Angels Wash Their Faces
as Mr. Smith
(1939)
Judge Hardy and Son
as Anton Volduzzi
(1939)
Espionage Agent
as Larsch
(1939)
While America Sleeps
as Klaus
(1938)
You and Me
as Mr. Levine
(1938)
Blondes at Work
as J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
(1938)
I'll Give a Million
as Citizen
(1938)
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Vasseur (uncredited)
(1938)
Suez
as Doctor
(1938)
The Spy Ring
as General A. R. Bowen
(1938)
Racket Busters
as Peters (uncredited)
(1938)
Cocoanut Grove
as Pawnbroker
(1938)
Gateway
as Rabbi
(1938)
Spring Madness
as Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
(1938)
Invisible Enemy
as Kirman
(1937)
Heidi
as Inn Keeper
(1937)
Black Legion
as Dombrowski
(1937)
The Great O'Malley
as Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
(1937)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
(1937)
I Met Him in Paris
as Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
(1937)
Espionage
as Chief of Police
(1937)
The Women Men Marry
as John (uncredited)
(1937)
Stolen Holiday
as Deputy Bergery
(1936)
Charlie Chan's Secret
as Ulrich
(1936)
The Devil-Doll
as Detective (uncredited)
(1936)
Sins of Man
as Doctor
(1936)
Till We Meet Again
as Schultz
(1936)
Boulder Dam
as Pa Vangarick
(1936)
Paddy O'Day
as Russian Musician
(1936)
Alibi for Murder
as Sir Conrad Stava
(1936)
The White Angel
as Pastor Fliedner
(1935)
Mark of the Vampire
as Coroner (uncredited)
(1935)
Werewolf of London
as Priest (uncredited)
(1935)
Here's to Romance
as Descartes
(1935)
Air Hawks
as Schulter's Henchman
(1935)
The Florentine Dagger
as Karl
(1934)
The Black Cat
as The Majordomo
(1934)
Now and Forever
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1934)
As the Earth Turns
as Mr. Janowski
(1934)
Many Happy Returns
as Dr. Otto von Strudel
(1934)
No Greater Glory
as Racz
(1933)
To the Last Man
as Mark Hayden
(1933)
Convention City
as Zorb
(1929)