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