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