Egon Brecher

Known for ActingBorn 1880-02-15Died 1946-08-12Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]

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.Read more

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Die Königsloge

Know Your Money

Cocoanut Grove

Sins of Man

Rebecca

Invisible Enemy

Gateway

Kings Row

All This, and Heaven Too

The White Angel

A Royal Scandal

Out of Darkness

Hotel Imperial

Sister Kenny

The Great O'Malley

Espionage

Paddy O'Day

Here's to Romance

Charlie Chan's Secret

Man Hunt

O.S.S.

Just Before Dawn

We Are Not Alone

Four Mothers

Isle of Missing Men

Manpower

Heidi

Now and Forever

The Devil-Doll

The Florentine Dagger

Angels Wash Their Faces

While America Sleeps

The Black Cat

Buyer Beware

No Greater Glory

Nurse Edith Cavell

Black Legion

Underground

I Was an Adventuress

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

You and Me

Juarez

Alibi for Murder

Blondes at Work

Stolen Holiday

The Man I Married

Arsène Lupin Returns

The Diary of a Chambermaid