Egon Brecher
male

Born on February 15, 1880 (145 years old)
Passed Away on August 12, 1946
From Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
Known for Acting
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.
Cast Credits
- 1946
- 1945
- 1943
- 1942
- 1941
- 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)
1940
All This, and Heaven Too
as
Doctor (uncredited)
1940
A Dispatch from Reuters
as
Von Konstat (uncredited)
1940
Knute Rockne All American
as
Elder in Norway (uncredited)
1940
The Man I Married
as
Czech
1940
Buyer Beware
as
Child's Father (uncredited)
1940
Know Your Money
as
Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
1940
- 1939
Judge Hardy and Son
as
Anton Volduzzi
1939
Angels Wash Their Faces
as
Mr. Smith
1939
Devil's Island
as
Debriac
1939
The Three Musketeers
as
Landlord
1939
Juarez
as
Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as
Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
1939
We Are Not Alone
as
Mr. Adolf Schiller
1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
as
Dr. Gunther
1939
Espionage Agent
as
Larsch
1939
While America Sleeps
as
Klaus
1939
Hotel Imperial
as
Pograncz (uncredited)
1939
- 1938
You and Me
as
Mr. Levine
1938
Racket Busters
as
Peters (uncredited)
1938
I'll Give a Million
as
Citizen
1938
Cocoanut Grove
as
Pawnbroker
1938
Spring Madness
as
Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
1938
Arsène Lupin Returns
as
Vasseur (uncredited)
1938
Invisible Enemy
as
Kirman
1938
Gateway
as
Rabbi
1938
The Spy Ring
as
General A. R. Bowen
1938
Suez
as
Doctor
1938
Blondes at Work
as
J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
1938
- 1937
Stolen Holiday
as
Deputy Bergery
1937
I Met Him in Paris
as
Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
1937
Heidi
as
Inn Keeper
1937
The Women Men Marry
as
John (uncredited)
1937
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as
Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
1937
The Great O'Malley
as
Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
1937
Espionage
as
Chief of Police
1937
Black Legion
as
Dombrowski
1937
- 1936
- 1935
- 1934
- 1933
- 1929