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person_profile-Egon Brecher

Egon Brecher Died at age: 66

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Egon Brecher

Date of Birth:

Feb 15, 1880

Country of birth:

Czech Republic]

Died:

Aug 12, 1946

Biography of

Egon Brecher

    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 of

Egon Brecher

Found 73 Movies in total

Sister Kenny

Frenchman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

So Dark the Night

Dr. Boncourt ( Actor )

... 1946

O.S.S.

Marcel Aubert ( Actor )

... 1946

Just Before Dawn

Dr. Evans (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

The Diary of a Chambermaid

The Postman (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

White Pongo

Dr. Gerig ( Actor )

... 1945

Voice of the Whistler

Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1945

A Royal Scandal

Wassilikow (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1945

Above Suspicion

Gestapo Official (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Mission to Moscow

Heinrich Sahm (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Isle of Missing Men

Richard Heller ( Actor )

... 1942

Kings Row

Dr. Candell ( Actor )

... 1942

Manpower

Pop Duval ( Actor )

... 1941

Underground

Herr Director ( Actor )

... 1941

Man Hunt

Jeweler ( Actor )

... 1941

Four Mothers

Music Foundation Director (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1941

A Dispatch from Reuters

Von Konstat (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

Knute Rockne All American

Elder in Norway (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

The Man I Married

Czech ( Actor )

... 1940

All This, and Heaven Too

Doctor (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

I Was an Adventuress

Jacques Dubois ( Actor )

... 1940

Rebecca

Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

... 1940

Calling Philo Vance

Austrian Judge (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

Judge Hardy and Son

Anton Volduzzi ( Actor )

... 1939

We Are Not Alone

Mr. Adolf Schiller ( Actor )

... 1939

Espionage Agent

Larsch ( Actor )

... 1939

Nurse Edith Cavell

Dr. Gunther ( Actor )

... 1939

Angels Wash Their Faces

Mr. Smith ( Actor )

... 1939

Juarez

Baron von Magnus (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Hotel Imperial

Pograncz (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

The Three Musketeers

Landlord ( Actor )

... 1939

Devil's Island

Debriac ( Actor )

... 1939

Spring Madness

Soviet Travel Bureau Agent ( Actor )

... 1938

Suez

Doctor ( Actor )

... 1938

Gateway

Rabbi ( Actor )

... 1938

I'll Give a Million

Citizen ( Actor )

... 1938

Racket Busters

Peters (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1938

You and Me

Mr. Levine ( Actor )

... 1938

Cocoanut Grove

Pawnbroker ( Actor )

... 1938

Invisible Enemy

Kirman ( Actor )

... 1938

Arsène Lupin Returns

Vasseur (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1938

Blondes at Work

J.Z. Beckman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1938

The Spy Ring

General A. R. Bowen ( Actor )

... 1938

Beg, Borrow or Steal

Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

Heidi

Inn Keeper ( Actor )

... 1937

The Women Men Marry

John (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

I Met Him in Paris

Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control ( Actor )

... 1937

Espionage

Chief of Police ( Actor )

... 1937

The Great O'Malley

Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

Stolen Holiday

Deputy Bergery ( Actor )

... 1937

Black Legion

Dombrowski ( Actor )

... 1937

Alibi for Murder

Sir Conrad Stava ( Actor )

... 1936

The Devil-Doll

Detective (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

The White Angel

Pastor Fliedner ( Actor )

... 1936

Sins of Man

Doctor ( Actor )

... 1936

Till We Meet Again

Schultz ( Actor )

... 1936

Boulder Dam

Pa Vangarick ( Actor )

... 1936

Paddy O'Day

Russian Musician ( Actor )

... 1936

Charlie Chan's Secret

Ulrich ( Actor )

... 1936

Here's to Romance

Descartes ( Actor )

... 1935

Werewolf of London

Priest (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Air Hawks

Schulter's Henchman ( Actor )

... 1935

Mark of the Vampire

Coroner (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

... 1935

Now and Forever

Doctor (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

Many Happy Returns

Dr. Otto von Strudel ( Actor )

... 1934

The Black Cat

The Majordomo ( Actor )

... 1934

No Greater Glory

Racz ( Actor )

... 1934

As the Earth Turns

Mr. Janowski ( Actor )

... 1934

Convention City

Zorb ( Actor )

... 1933

To the Last Man

Mark Hayden ( Actor )

... 1933