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.
Pop Duval
Film 1941
The Majordomo
Film 1934
Ulrich
Film 1936
Dr. Boncourt
Film 1946
Zorb
Film 1933
Karl
Film 1935
Film 1929
Dr. Candell
Film 1942
Doctor (uncredited)
Film 1934
Anton Volduzzi
Film 1939
Mr. Smith
Film 1939
Richard Heller
Film 1942
Deputy Bergery
Film 1937
Schulter's Henchman
Film 1935
Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
Film 1937
Detective (uncredited)
Film 1936
Inn Keeper
Film 1937
Jacques Dubois
Film 1940
John (uncredited)
Film 1937
Jeweler
Film 1941
Sir Conrad Stava
Film 1936
Peters (uncredited)
Film 1938
Citizen
Film 1938
Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Film 1937
Pawnbroker
Film 1938
Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
Film 1938
Pastor Fliedner
Film 1936
Russian Musician
Film 1936
Debriac
Film 1939
Landlord
Film 1939
Pa Vangarick
Film 1936
Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
Film 1939
Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Film 1939
Mr. Adolf Schiller
Film 1939
Dr. Gunther
Film 1939
Larsch
Film 1939
Vasseur (uncredited)
Film 1938
Marcel Aubert
Film 1946
Frenchman (uncredited)
Film 1946
Racz
Film 1934
Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Film 1937
Doctor
Film 1936
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Film 1940
Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Film 1940
Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
Film 1945
Dr. Evans (uncredited)
Film 1946
Herr Director
Film 1941
Descartes
Film 1935
Doctor (uncredited)
Film 1940
Kirman
Film 1938
Von Konstat (uncredited)
Film 1940
Elder in Norway (uncredited)
Film 1940
Czech
Film 1940
General A. R. Bowen
Film 1938
Dr. Gerig
Film 1945
Klaus
Film 1939
Child's Father (uncredited)
Film 1940
Pograncz (uncredited)
Film 1939
Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
Film 1941
Coroner (uncredited)
Film 1935
Doctor
Film 1938
Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
Film 1940
Adolph (uncredited)
Film 1942
Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Film 1943
J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
Film 1938
Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
Film 1943
Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
Film 1941
Dombrowski
Film 1937
Wassilikow (uncredited)
Film 1945
Schultz
Film 1936
The Postman (Uncredited)
Film 1946
Dr. Otto von Strudel
Film 1934
Priest (uncredited)
Film 1935