Egon Brecher
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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.
Como Actor/Actriz
Rebeca
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
El gato negro
The Majordomo
Heidi
Inn Keeper
Cornered
El lobo humano de Londres
Priest (uncredited)
You and Me
Mr. Levine
Espionage
Chief of Police
Mark of the Vampire
Coroner (uncredited)
Manpower
Pop Duval
Juarez
Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Man Hunt
Jeweler
Mission to Moscow
Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
A Royal Scandal
Wassilikow (uncredited)
Pasiones borrascosas
Dr. Candell
Black Legion
Dombrowski
Above Suspicion
Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Confesiones de un espía nazi
Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
The Postman (Uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
Doctor (uncredited)
Now and Forever
Doctor (uncredited)
Four Mothers
Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Martl
Paddy O'Day
Russian Musician
The Three Musketeers
Landlord
Sister Kenny
Frenchman (uncredited)
Angels Wash Their Faces
Mr. Smith
Suez
Doctor
Espionage Agent
Larsch
I'll Give a Million
Citizen
No Greater Glory
Racz