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Egon Brecher
Actor
Died August 12, 1946 (66 years)
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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.
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.
Filmography
| 1946 | The Return of Monte Cristo · as Island Doctor |
| 1946 | Temptation · as Ibrahim |
| 1946 | So Dark the Night · as Dr. Boncourt |
| 1946 | Sister Kenny · as Frenchman (uncredited) |
| 1946 | O.S.S. · as Marcel Aubert |
| 1946 | The Wife of Monte Cristo · as Proprietor |
| 1946 | Just Before Dawn · as Dr. Evans (uncredited) |
| 1946 | The Diary of a Chambermaid · as The Postman (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Cornered · as Insurance Man |
| 1945 | White Pongo · as Dr. Gerig |
| 1945 | Voice of the Whistler · as Dr. Rose (replaced By Frank Reicher) (uncredited) |
| 1945 | A Royal Scandal · as Wassilikow (uncredited) |
| 1944 | The Hitler Gang · as Landsberg Warden |
| 1944 | The Seventh Cross · as Sexton |
| 1944 | The Hairy Ape · as Refugee Violinist |
| 1943 | The Desert Song · as French Colonel |
| 1943 | Above Suspicion · as Gestapo Official (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Mission to Moscow · as Heinrich Sahm (uncredited) |
| 1943 | They Came to Blow Up America · as Kirschner |
| 1943 | The Fighting Guerrillas · as Chetnik |
| 1943 | Hitler's Children · as Mr. Müller |
| 1942 | The Navy Comes Through · as U-Boat Commander |
| 1942 | Isle of Missing Men · as Richard Heller |
| 1942 | Berlin Correspondent · as Prisoner |
| 1942 | Kings Row · as Dr. Candell |
| 1942 | All Through the Night · as Art Gallery Watchman |
| 1941 | Manpower · as Pop Duval |
| 1941 | Underground · as Herr Director |
| 1941 | Man Hunt · as Jeweler |
| 1941 | They Dare Not Love · as Prof. Keller |
| 1941 | Four Mothers · as Music Foundation Director (uncredited) |
| 1940 | A Dispatch from Reuters · as Von Konstat (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Knute Rockne All American · as Elder In Norway (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Buyer Beware · as Child's Father (uncredited) |
| 1940 | The Man I Married · as Czech |
| 1940 | All This, and Heaven Too · as Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Four Sons · as Richter |
| 1940 | I Was an Adventuress · as Jacques Dubois |
| 1940 | Rebecca · as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet · as Martl |
| 1940 | Calling Philo Vance · as Austrian Judge (uncredited) |
| 1939 | We Are Not Alone · as Mr. Adolf Schiller |
| 1939 | Espionage Agent · as Larsch |
| 1939 | Judge Hardy and Son · as Anton Volduzzi |
| 1939 | Nurse Edith Cavell · as Dr. Gunther |
| 1939 | Angels Wash Their Faces · as Mr. Smith |
| 1939 | Juarez · as Baron Von Magnus (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Confessions of a Nazi Spy · as Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Hotel Imperial · as Pograncz (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Three Musketeers · as Landlord |
| 1938 | Devil's Island · as Debriac |
| 1938 | Spring Madness · as Soviet Travel Bureau Agent |
| 1938 | Suez · as Doctor |
| 1938 | Spawn of the North · as Erickson |
| 1938 | Gateway · as Rabbi |
| 1938 | I'll Give a Million · as Citizen |
| 1938 | Racket Busters · as Peters (uncredited) |
| 1938 | You and Me · as Mr. Levine |
| 1938 | Cocoanut Grove · as Pawnbroker |
| 1938 | Invisible Enemy · as Kirman |
| 1938 | Arsène Lupin Returns · as Vasseur (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Blondes at Work · as J.z. Beckman (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Spy Ring · as General A. R. Bowen |
| 1937 | Beg, Borrow or Steal · as Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Heidi · as Inn Keeper |
| 1937 | Lancer Spy · as Bendiner |
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola · as Brucker |
| 1937 | The Women Men Marry · as John (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Thin Ice · as Janitor |
| 1937 | Love Under Fire · as Civilian |
| 1937 | The Emperor's Candlesticks · as Czakova - Chief Of Police |
| 1937 | I Met Him in Paris · as Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control |
| 1937 | Espionage · as Chief Of Police |
| 1937 | The Great O'Malley · as Morris - The Pawnbroker (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Stolen Holiday · as Deputy Bergery |
| 1937 | Black Legion · as Dombrowski |
| 1936 | One in a Million · as Olympic Chairman |
| 1936 | Come and Get It · as Mr. Schwerke |
| 1936 | Love on the Run · as Dr. Stefan Gorsay |
| 1936 | Ladies in Love · as Concierge |
| 1936 | Alibi for Murder · as Sir Conrad Stava |
| 1936 | Anthony Adverse · as Innkeeper |
| 1936 | The Devil-Doll · as Detective (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The White Angel · as Pastor Fliedner |
| 1936 | Till We Meet Again · as Schultz |
| 1936 | Boulder Dam · as Pa Vangarick |
| 1936 | Paddy O'Day · as Russian Musician |
| 1936 | Three Live Ghosts · as German Officer |
| 1935 | Charlie Chan's Secret · as Ulrich |
| 1935 | The Black Room · as Karl - Lead Villager |
| 1935 | Werewolf of London · as Priest (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Air Hawks · as Schulter's Henchman |
| 1935 | Mark of the Vampire · as Coroner (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Black Fury · as Alec Novak |
| 1935 | The Florentine Dagger · as Karl |
| 1934 | Now and Forever · as Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Many Happy Returns · as Dr. Otto Von Strudel |
| 1934 | The Black Cat · as The Majordomo |
| 1934 | No Greater Glory · as Racz |
| 1934 | As the Earth Turns · as Mr. Janowski |
| 1933 | Convention City · as Zorb |
| 1933 | To the Last Man · as Mark Hayden |