From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEgon Brecher (18 February 1880 – 12 August 1946) was an Austria-Hungary-born actor and director, who also served as the chief director of Viennas 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 1946s So Dark the Night. He died later in 1946, aged 66, of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California.

Filmek -tól nem elérhető Egon Brecher

Manpower

Pop Duval

Film 1941

The Black Cat

The Majordomo

Film 1934

Charlie Chan's Secret

Ulrich

Film 1936

So Dark the Night

Dr. Boncourt

Film 1946

Convention City

Zorb

Film 1933

The Florentine Dagger

Karl

Film 1935

Die Königsloge

Film 1929

Kings Row

Dr. Candell

Film 1942

Now and Forever

Doctor (uncredited)

Film 1934

Judge Hardy and Son

Anton Volduzzi

Film 1939

Angels Wash Their Faces

Mr. Smith

Film 1939

Isle of Missing Men

Richard Heller

Film 1942

Stolen Holiday

Deputy Bergery

Film 1937

Air Hawks

Schulter's Henchman

Film 1935

I Met Him in Paris

Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control

Film 1937

The Devil-Doll

Detective (uncredited)

Film 1936

Heidi

Inn Keeper

Film 1937

I Was an Adventuress

Jacques Dubois

Film 1940

The Women Men Marry

John (uncredited)

Film 1937

Man Hunt

Jeweler

Film 1941

Alibi for Murder

Sir Conrad Stava

Film 1936

Racket Busters

Peters (uncredited)

Film 1938

I'll Give a Million

Citizen

Film 1938

Beg, Borrow or Steal

Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)

Film 1937

Cocoanut Grove

Pawnbroker

Film 1938

Spring Madness

Soviet Travel Bureau Agent

Film 1938

The White Angel

Pastor Fliedner

Film 1936

Paddy O'Day

Russian Musician

Film 1936

Devil's Island

Debriac

Film 1939

The Three Musketeers

Landlord

Film 1939

Boulder Dam

Pa Vangarick

Film 1936

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)

Film 1939

Juarez

Baron von Magnus (uncredited)

Film 1939

We Are Not Alone

Mr. Adolf Schiller

Film 1939

Nurse Edith Cavell

Dr. Gunther

Film 1939

Espionage Agent

Larsch

Film 1939

Arsène Lupin Returns

Vasseur (uncredited)

Film 1938

O.S.S.

Marcel Aubert

Film 1946

Sister Kenny

Frenchman (uncredited)

Film 1946

No Greater Glory

Racz

Film 1934

The Great O'Malley

Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)

Film 1937

Sins of Man

Doctor

Film 1936

Rebecca

Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Film 1940

Calling Philo Vance

Austrian Judge (uncredited)

Film 1940

Voice of the Whistler

Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)

Film 1945

Just Before Dawn

Dr. Evans (uncredited)

Film 1946

Underground

Herr Director

Film 1941

Here's to Romance

Descartes

Film 1935

All This, and Heaven Too

Doctor (uncredited)

Film 1940

Invisible Enemy

Kirman

Film 1938

A Dispatch from Reuters

Von Konstat (uncredited)

Film 1940

Knute Rockne All American

Elder in Norway (uncredited)

Film 1940

The Man I Married

Czech

Film 1940

The Spy Ring

General A. R. Bowen

Film 1938

White Pongo

Dr. Gerig

Film 1945

While America Sleeps

Klaus

Film 1939

Buyer Beware

Child's Father (uncredited)

Film 1940

Hotel Imperial

Pograncz (uncredited)

Film 1939

Four Mothers

Music Foundation Director (uncredited)

Film 1941

Mark of the Vampire

Coroner (uncredited)

Film 1935

Suez

Doctor

Film 1938

Know Your Money

Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)

Film 1940

For the Common Defense!

Adolph (uncredited)

Film 1942

Above Suspicion

Gestapo Official (Uncredited)

Film 1943

Blondes at Work

J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)

Film 1938

Mission to Moscow

Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)

Film 1943

Out of Darkness

Victor Jourdain (uncredited)

Film 1941

Black Legion

Dombrowski

Film 1937

A Royal Scandal

Wassilikow (uncredited)

Film 1945

Till We Meet Again

Schultz

Film 1936

The Diary of a Chambermaid

The Postman (Uncredited)

Film 1946

Many Happy Returns

Dr. Otto von Strudel

Film 1934

Werewolf of London

Priest (uncredited)

Film 1935