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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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Filmography (Movies)
So Dark the Night
Character:Dr. Boncourt
Release Date:10/10/1946
Sister Kenny
Character:Frenchman (uncredited)
Release Date:10/10/1946
O.S.S.
Character:Marcel Aubert
Release Date:26/05/1946
Just Before Dawn
Character:Dr. Evans (uncredited)
Release Date:07/03/1946
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Character:The Postman (Uncredited)
Release Date:15/02/1946
White Pongo
Character:Dr. Gerig
Release Date:02/11/1945
Voice of the Whistler
Character:Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
Release Date:30/10/1945
A Royal Scandal
Character:Wassilikow (uncredited)
Release Date:26/03/1945
Above Suspicion
Character:Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Release Date:31/05/1943
Mission to Moscow
Character:Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
Release Date:29/04/1943
Isle of Missing Men
Character:Richard Heller
Release Date:18/09/1942
For the Common Defense!
Character:Adolph (uncredited)
Release Date:20/06/1942
Kings Row
Character:Dr. Candell
Release Date:02/02/1942
Manpower
Character:Pop Duval
Release Date:09/08/1941
Underground
Character:Herr Director
Release Date:28/06/1941
Man Hunt
Character:Jeweler
Release Date:13/06/1941
Out of Darkness
Character:Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
Release Date:29/03/1941
Four Mothers
Character:Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
Release Date:04/01/1941
A Dispatch from Reuters
Character:Von Konstat (uncredited)
Release Date:19/10/1940
Knute Rockne All American
Character:Elder in Norway (uncredited)
Release Date:05/10/1940
Buyer Beware
Character:Child's Father (uncredited)
Release Date:17/08/1940
The Man I Married
Character:Czech
Release Date:09/08/1940
All This, and Heaven Too
Character:Doctor (uncredited)
Release Date:05/07/1940
I Was an Adventuress
Character:Jacques Dubois
Release Date:10/05/1940
Rebecca
Character:Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Release Date:23/03/1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character:Martl
Release Date:23/02/1940
Calling Philo Vance
Character:Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Release Date:03/02/1940
Know Your Money
Character:Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
Release Date:27/01/1940
Judge Hardy and Son
Character:Anton Volduzzi
Release Date:22/12/1939
We Are Not Alone
Character:Mr. Adolf Schiller
Release Date:25/11/1939
Espionage Agent
Character:Larsch
Release Date:30/09/1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
Character:Dr. Gunther
Release Date:31/08/1939
Angels Wash Their Faces
Character:Mr. Smith
Release Date:26/08/1939
Juarez
Character:Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Release Date:10/06/1939
Hotel Imperial
Character:Pograncz (uncredited)
Release Date:11/05/1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character:Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
Release Date:06/05/1939
While America Sleeps
Character:Klaus
Release Date:14/04/1939
The Three Musketeers
Character:Landlord
Release Date:17/02/1939
Devil's Island
Character:Debriac
Release Date:07/01/1939
Spring Madness
Character:Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
Release Date:11/11/1938
Suez
Character:Doctor
Release Date:28/10/1938
Gateway
Character:Rabbi
Release Date:05/08/1938
I'll Give a Million
Character:Citizen
Release Date:27/07/1938
Racket Busters
Character:Peters (uncredited)
Release Date:16/07/1938
You and Me
Character:Mr. Levine
Release Date:01/06/1938
Cocoanut Grove
Character:Pawnbroker
Release Date:20/05/1938
Invisible Enemy
Character:Kirman
Release Date:03/04/1938
Arsène Lupin Returns
Character:Vasseur (uncredited)
Release Date:25/02/1938
Blondes at Work
Character:J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
Release Date:05/02/1938
The Spy Ring
Character:General A. R. Bowen
Release Date:08/01/1938
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Character:Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Release Date:03/12/1937
Heidi
Character:Inn Keeper
Release Date:15/10/1937
The Women Men Marry
Character:John (uncredited)
Release Date:10/09/1937
I Met Him in Paris
Character:Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
Release Date:28/05/1937
Espionage
Character:Chief of Police
Release Date:26/02/1937
The Great O'Malley
Character:Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Release Date:13/02/1937
Stolen Holiday
Character:Deputy Bergery
Release Date:06/02/1937
Black Legion
Character:Dombrowski
Release Date:30/01/1937
Alibi for Murder
Character:Sir Conrad Stava
Release Date:23/09/1936
The Devil-Doll
Character:Detective (uncredited)
Release Date:10/07/1936
The White Angel
Character:Pastor Fliedner
Release Date:25/06/1936
Sins of Man
Character:Doctor
Release Date:19/06/1936
Till We Meet Again
Character:Schultz
Release Date:04/04/1936
Boulder Dam
Character:Pa Vangarick
Release Date:07/03/1936
Paddy O'Day
Character:Russian Musician
Release Date:17/01/1936
Charlie Chan's Secret
Character:Ulrich
Release Date:10/01/1936
Here's to Romance
Character:Descartes
Release Date:04/10/1935
Werewolf of London
Character:Priest (uncredited)
Release Date:13/05/1935
Air Hawks
Character:Schulter's Henchman
Release Date:07/05/1935
Mark of the Vampire
Character:Coroner (uncredited)
Release Date:26/04/1935
The Florentine Dagger
Character:Karl
Release Date:30/03/1935
Now and Forever
Character:Doctor (uncredited)
Release Date:31/08/1934
Many Happy Returns
Character:Dr. Otto von Strudel
Release Date:08/06/1934
The Black Cat
Character:The Majordomo
Release Date:07/05/1934
No Greater Glory
Character:Racz
Release Date:30/03/1934
As the Earth Turns
Character:Mr. Janowski
Release Date:14/02/1934
Convention City
Character:Zorb
Release Date:14/12/1933
To the Last Man
Character:Mark Hayden
Release Date:15/09/1933
Die Königsloge
Character:
Release Date:21/11/1929
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