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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	5.664
Birthday	1880-02-15
Place of Birth	Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
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So Dark the Night

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Angels Wash Their Faces

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Isle of Missing Men

Stolen Holiday

I Met Him in Paris

To the Last Man

As the Earth Turns

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I Was an Adventuress

Alibi for Murder

Racket Busters

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Cocoanut Grove

Spring Madness

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The White Angel

Paddy O'Day

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Confessions of a Nazi Spy

We Are Not Alone

Espionage Agent

Arsène Lupin Returns

O.S.S.

No Greater Glory

The Great O'Malley

Espionage

Sins of Man

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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Calling Philo Vance

Voice of the Whistler

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Underground

Here's to Romance

Invisible Enemy

Gateway

The Spy Ring

All This, and Heaven Too

A Dispatch from Reuters

Knute Rockne All American

The Man I Married

White Pongo

While America Sleeps

Buyer Beware

Four Mothers

Mark of the Vampire

Suez

Know Your Money

For the Common Defense!

Blondes at Work

Above Suspicion

Mission to Moscow

Out of Darkness

Black Legion

A Royal Scandal

Till We Meet Again

The Diary of a Chambermaid

Werewolf of London

Many Happy Returns

Convention City

You and Me

Air Hawks

Sister Kenny

Die Königsloge

Now and Forever

The Devil-Doll

The Women Men Marry