Acting
Egon Brecher
EN, DE cinema · 80 credits
Born
15 February 1880
Died
12 August 1946 (aged 66)
Birthplace
Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
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
Filmography
So Dark the Night
as Dr. Boncourt
O.S.S.
as Marcel Aubert
Sister Kenny
as Frenchman (uncredited)
Just Before Dawn
as Dr. Evans (uncredited)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
as The Postman (Uncredited)
Voice of the Whistler
as Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
White Pongo
as Dr. Gerig
A Royal Scandal
as Wassilikow (uncredited)
Cornered
Actor
Above Suspicion
as Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
as Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
Kings Row
as Dr. Candell
Isle of Missing Men
as Richard Heller
For the Common Defense!
as Adolph (uncredited)
Manpower
as Pop Duval
Man Hunt
as Jeweler
Underground
as Herr Director
Four Mothers
as Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
Out of Darkness
as Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
I Was an Adventuress
as Jacques Dubois
Rebecca
as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Calling Philo Vance
as Austrian Judge (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
as Doctor (uncredited)
A Dispatch from Reuters
as Von Konstat (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
as Elder in Norway (uncredited)
The Man I Married
as Czech
Buyer Beware
as Child's Father (uncredited)
Know Your Money
as Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
Judge Hardy and Son
as Anton Volduzzi
Angels Wash Their Faces
as Mr. Smith
Devil's Island
as Debriac
The Three Musketeers
as Landlord
Juarez
as Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
We Are Not Alone
as Mr. Adolf Schiller
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Dr. Gunther
Espionage Agent
as Larsch
While America Sleeps
as Klaus
Hotel Imperial
as Pograncz (uncredited)
You and Me
as Mr. Levine
Racket Busters
as Peters (uncredited)
I'll Give a Million
as Citizen
Cocoanut Grove
as Pawnbroker
Spring Madness
as Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Vasseur (uncredited)
Invisible Enemy
as Kirman
Gateway
as Rabbi
The Spy Ring
as General A. R. Bowen
Suez
as Doctor
Blondes at Work
as J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
Stolen Holiday
as Deputy Bergery
I Met Him in Paris
as Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
Heidi
as Inn Keeper
The Women Men Marry
as John (uncredited)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
The Great O'Malley
as Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Espionage
as Chief of Police
Black Legion
as Dombrowski
Charlie Chan's Secret
as Ulrich
The Devil-Doll
as Detective (uncredited)
Alibi for Murder
as Sir Conrad Stava
The White Angel
as Pastor Fliedner
Paddy O'Day
as Russian Musician
Boulder Dam
as Pa Vangarick
Sins of Man
as Doctor
Till We Meet Again
as Schultz
Air Hawks
as Schulter's Henchman
Here's to Romance
as Descartes
Mark of the Vampire
as Coroner (uncredited)
Werewolf of London
as Priest (uncredited)
The Black Cat
as The Majordomo
Now and Forever
as Doctor (uncredited)
As the Earth Turns
as Mr. Janowski
No Greater Glory
as Racz
Many Happy Returns
as Dr. Otto von Strudel
Convention City
as Zorb
To the Last Man
as Mark Hayden