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.
80 acting credits
Acting · 80
Rebecca
1940
The Black Cat
1934
Heidi
1937
Manpower
1941
Man Hunt
1941
Juarez
1939
Mark of the Vampire
1935
Isle of Missing Men
1942
Kings Row
1942
Above Suspicion
1943
Sister Kenny
1946
Werewolf of London
1935
You and Me
1938
The Three Musketeers
1939
Mission to Moscow
1943
Paddy O'Day
1936
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946
Black Legion
1937
Gateway
1938
O.S.S.
1946
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939
A Royal Scandal
1945
To the Last Man
1933
Underground
1941
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
Cornered
1945
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
The Devil-Doll
1936
The Florentine Dagger
1935
Four Mothers
1941
Espionage Agent
1939
Suez
1938
Racket Busters
1938
Judge Hardy and Son
1939
Boulder Dam
1936
Blondes at Work
1938
Now and Forever
1934
Espionage
1937
The Great O'Malley
1937
I'll Give a Million
1938
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
The White Angel
1936
The Man I Married
1940
Devil's Island
1939
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939
Many Happy Returns
1934
Spring Madness
1938
Voice of the Whistler
1945
So Dark the Night
1946
Knute Rockne All American
1940
Stolen Holiday
1937
Sins of Man
1936
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
I Was an Adventuress
1940
Cocoanut Grove
1938
As the Earth Turns
1934
Air Hawks
1935
Just Before Dawn
1946
Hotel Imperial
1939
The Spy Ring
1938
Know Your Money
1940
We Are Not Alone
1939
Charlie Chan's Secret
1936
I Met Him in Paris
1937
Here's to Romance
1935
Invisible Enemy
1938
White Pongo
1945
No Greater Glory
1934
Convention City
1933
Till We Meet Again
1936
Alibi for Murder
1936
For the Common Defense!
1942
Buyer Beware
1940
Calling Philo Vance
1940
While America Sleeps
1939
Out of Darkness
1941
The Women Men Marry
1937
Die Königsloge
1929