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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 15, 1880
Died
August 12, 1946
Place of Birth
Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
Egon Brecher
0.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.5
Frenchman (uncredited)
Sister Kenny
1946
6.0
Dr. Boncourt
So Dark the Night
1946
6.4
Marcel Aubert
O.S.S.
1946
6.3
Dr. Evans (uncredited)
Just Before Dawn
1946
6.3
The Postman (Uncredited)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946
4.0
Dr. Gerig
White Pongo
1945
5.7
Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
Voice of the Whistler
1945
6.9
Wassilikow (uncredited)
A Royal Scandal
1945
6.5
Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Above Suspicion
1943
5.3
Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
1943
Credits
Sister Kenny
as Frenchman (uncredited)
1946
6.5
So Dark the Night
as Dr. Boncourt
1946
6.0
O.S.S.
as Marcel Aubert
1946
6.4
Just Before Dawn
as Dr. Evans (uncredited)
1946
6.3
The Diary of a Chambermaid
as The Postman (Uncredited)
1946
6.3
White Pongo
as Dr. Gerig
1945
4.0
Voice of the Whistler
as Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
1945
5.7
A Royal Scandal
as Wassilikow (uncredited)
1945
6.9
Above Suspicion
as Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
1943
6.5
Mission to Moscow
as Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
1943
5.3
Isle of Missing Men
as Richard Heller
1942
6.2
For the Common Defense!
as Adolph (uncredited)
1942
4.7
Kings Row
as Dr. Candell
1942
7.2
Manpower
as Pop Duval
1941
6.7
Underground
as Herr Director
1941
6.1
Man Hunt
as Jeweler
1941
6.9
Out of Darkness
as Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
1941
0.0
Four Mothers
as Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
1941
6.2
A Dispatch from Reuters
as Von Konstat (uncredited)
1940
5.7
Knute Rockne All American
as Elder in Norway (uncredited)
1940
6.1
Buyer Beware
as Child's Father (uncredited)
1940
6.0
The Man I Married
as Czech
1940
6.3
All This, and Heaven Too
as Doctor (uncredited)
1940
7.1
I Was an Adventuress
as Jacques Dubois
1940
6.3
Rebecca
as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
1940
7.9
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Martl
1940
6.4
Calling Philo Vance
as Austrian Judge (uncredited)
1940
5.8
Know Your Money
as Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
1940
9.0
Judge Hardy and Son
as Anton Volduzzi
1939
5.6
We Are Not Alone
as Mr. Adolf Schiller
1939
6.1
Espionage Agent
as Larsch
1939
5.9
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Dr. Gunther
1939
6.4
Angels Wash Their Faces
as Mr. Smith
1939
6.4
Juarez
as Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
1939
6.5
Hotel Imperial
as Pograncz (uncredited)
1939
6.0
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
1939
6.1
While America Sleeps
as Klaus
1939
6.0
The Three Musketeers
as Landlord
1939
5.8
Devil's Island
as Debriac
1939
5.4
Spring Madness
as Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
1938
3.9
Suez
as Doctor
1938
5.2
Gateway
as Rabbi
1938
6.5
I'll Give a Million
as Citizen
1938
5.7
Racket Busters
as Peters (uncredited)
1938
5.1
You and Me
as Mr. Levine
1938
6.7
Cocoanut Grove
as Pawnbroker
1938
0.0
Invisible Enemy
as Kirman
1938
6.0
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Vasseur (uncredited)
1938
5.8
Blondes at Work
as J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
1938
6.1
The Spy Ring
as General A. R. Bowen
1938
5.0
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
1937
4.5
Heidi
as Inn Keeper
1937
6.8
The Women Men Marry
as John (uncredited)
1937
5.5
I Met Him in Paris
as Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
1937
5.3
Espionage
as Chief of Police
1937
6.5
The Great O'Malley
as Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
1937
6.7
Stolen Holiday
as Deputy Bergery
1937
6.6
Black Legion
as Dombrowski
1937
6.6
Alibi for Murder
as Sir Conrad Stava
1936
5.8
The Devil-Doll
as Detective (uncredited)
1936
6.8
The White Angel
as Pastor Fliedner
1936
8.0
Sins of Man
as Doctor
1936
0.0
Till We Meet Again
as Schultz
1936
5.0
Boulder Dam
as Pa Vangarick
1936
4.0
Paddy O'Day
as Russian Musician
1936
7.0
Charlie Chan's Secret
as Ulrich
1936
6.8
Here's to Romance
as Descartes
1935
0.0
Werewolf of London
as Priest (uncredited)
1935
6.0
Air Hawks
as Schulter's Henchman
1935
5.6
Mark of the Vampire
as Coroner (uncredited)
1935
6.1
The Florentine Dagger
as Karl
1935
5.7
Now and Forever
as Doctor (uncredited)
1934
6.6
Many Happy Returns
as Dr. Otto von Strudel
1934
5.3
The Black Cat
as The Majordomo
1934
6.7
No Greater Glory
as Racz
1934
6.7
As the Earth Turns
as Mr. Janowski
1934
5.3
Convention City
as Zorb
1933
3.7
To the Last Man
as Mark Hayden
1933
5.7
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Die Königsloge
1929
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