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