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