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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
all 80
Movies 80
Director 2
Sister Kenny (1946)
So Dark the Night (1946)
O.S.S. (1946)
Just Before Dawn (1946)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
White Pongo (1945)
Voice of the Whistler (1945)
A Royal Scandal (1945)
Above Suspicion (1943)
Mission to Moscow (1943)
Isle of Missing Men (1942)
For the Common Defense! (1942)
Kings Row (1942)
Manpower (1941)
Underground (1941)
Man Hunt (1941)
Out of Darkness (1941)
Four Mothers (1941)
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
Knute Rockne All American (1940)
Buyer Beware (1940)
The Man I Married (1940)
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
I Was an Adventuress (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
Calling Philo Vance (1940)
Know Your Money (1940)
Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
We Are Not Alone (1939)
Espionage Agent (1939)
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Juarez (1939)
Hotel Imperial (1939)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
While America Sleeps (1939)
The Three Musketeers (1939)
Devil's Island (1939)
Spring Madness (1938)
Suez (1938)
Nostradamus (1938)
Gateway (1938)
I'll Give a Million (1938)
Racket Busters (1938)
You and Me (1938)
Cocoanut Grove (1938)
Invisible Enemy (1938)
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
Blondes at Work (1938)
The Spy Ring (1938)
Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
Heidi (1937)
The Women Men Marry (1937)
I Met Him in Paris (1937)
Espionage (1937)
The Great O'Malley (1937)
Stolen Holiday (1937)
Black Legion (1937)
Alibi for Murder (1936)
The Devil-Doll (1936)
The White Angel (1936)
Sins of Man (1936)
Till We Meet Again (1936)
Boulder Dam (1936)
Paddy O'Day (1936)
Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
Here's to Romance (1935)
Werewolf of London (1935)
Air Hawks (1935)
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
The Florentine Dagger (1935)
Now and Forever (1934)
Many Happy Returns (1934)
The Black Cat (1934)
No Greater Glory (1934)
As the Earth Turns (1934)
Convention City (1933)
To the Last Man (1933)
Die Königsloge (1929)
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GenderMale
Birthday1880-02-16
Deathday1946-08-12 (66 years old)
Birth PlaceOlomouc, Czech Republic
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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