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