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