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