Cast
Egon Brecher
Acting
Cast
Egon Brecher
Known for
Acting
Born
1880-02-15
From
Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
Died
1946-08-12
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.
★7.9
MOVIE1940
Rebecca
as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
★4.2
MOVIE1933
Convention City
as Zorb
★6.5
MOVIE1939
Juarez
as Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Buyer Beware
as Child's Father (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1937
Heidi
as Inn Keeper
★6.1
MOVIE1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1935
Werewolf of London
as Priest (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1940
All This, and Heaven Too
as Doctor (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1934
No Greater Glory
as Racz
★6.7
MOVIE1934
The Black Cat
as The Majordomo
★6.9
MOVIE1946
Sister Kenny
as Frenchman (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1939
The Three Musketeers
as Landlord
★6.2
MOVIE1935
Mark of the Vampire
as Coroner (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1939
Angels Wash Their Faces
as Mr. Smith
★6.9
MOVIE1941
Man Hunt
as Jeweler
★7.3
MOVIE1942
Kings Row
as Dr. Candell
★6.2
MOVIE1946
The Diary of a Chambermaid
as The Postman (Uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1942
Isle of Missing Men
as Richard Heller
★6.6
MOVIE1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Dr. Gunther
★5.5
MOVIE1938
Racket Busters
as Peters (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1940
Knute Rockne All American
as Elder in Norway (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Martl
★6.8
MOVIE1936
The Devil-Doll
as Detective (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1943
Above Suspicion
as Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1939
Devil's Island
as Debriac
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1939
Espionage Agent
as Larsch
★6.6
MOVIE1938
You and Me
as Mr. Levine
★6.3
MOVIE1940
A Dispatch from Reuters
as Von Konstat (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1943
Mission to Moscow
as Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1938
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Vasseur (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1939
Judge Hardy and Son
as Anton Volduzzi
★6.2
MOVIE1945
Cornered
★6.9
MOVIE1946
O.S.S.
as Marcel Aubert
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Manpower
as Pop Duval
★6.7
MOVIE1939
While America Sleeps
as Klaus
★5.6
MOVIE1938
The Spy Ring
as General A. R. Bowen
★7.2
MOVIE1936
The White Angel
as Pastor Fliedner
★7.0
MOVIE1937
The Great O'Malley
as Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1937
I Met Him in Paris
as Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
★6.8
MOVIE1934
Now and Forever
as Doctor (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1940
I Was an Adventuress
as Jacques Dubois
★6.8
MOVIE1935
The Florentine Dagger
as Karl
★7.0
MOVIE1945
A Royal Scandal
as Wassilikow (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1946
Just Before Dawn
as Dr. Evans (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Charlie Chan's Secret
as Ulrich
★5.8
MOVIE1945
Voice of the Whistler
as Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1941
Four Mothers
as Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1935
Air Hawks
as Schulter's Henchman
★5.0
MOVIE1942
For the Common Defense!
as Adolph (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1946
So Dark the Night
as Dr. Boncourt
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Paddy O'Day
as Russian Musician
★5.5
MOVIE1938
Suez
as Doctor
★6.6
MOVIE1941
Underground
as Herr Director
★6.1
MOVIE1938
I'll Give a Million
as Citizen
★7.4
MOVIE1938
Gateway
as Rabbi
★6.6
MOVIE1937
Black Legion
as Dombrowski
★6.9
MOVIE1939
We Are Not Alone
as Mr. Adolf Schiller
★7.0
MOVIE1939
Hotel Imperial
as Pograncz (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1934
As the Earth Turns
as Mr. Janowski
★4.0
MOVIE1945
White Pongo
as Dr. Gerig
★9.0
MOVIE1938
Cocoanut Grove
as Pawnbroker
★7.5
MOVIE1938
Invisible Enemy
as Kirman
★5.3
MOVIE1934
Many Happy Returns
as Dr. Otto von Strudel
★4.9
MOVIE1938
Spring Madness
as Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
★5.9
MOVIE1933
To the Last Man
as Mark Hayden
★6.3
MOVIE1938
Blondes at Work
as J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1937
The Women Men Marry
as John (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1940
The Man I Married
as Czech
★7.0
MOVIE1935
Here's to Romance
as Descartes
★6.4
MOVIE1937
Stolen Holiday
as Deputy Bergery
★6.0
MOVIE1940
Calling Philo Vance
as Austrian Judge (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1936
Boulder Dam
as Pa Vangarick
★10.0
MOVIE1929
Die Königsloge
★9.0
MOVIE1936
Sins of Man
as Doctor
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Espionage
as Chief of Police
★6.5
MOVIE1936
Alibi for Murder
as Sir Conrad Stava
★5.2
MOVIE1936
Till We Meet Again
as Schultz
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Out of Darkness
as Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
★8.3
MOVIE1940
Know Your Money
as Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)