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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.

Cast

Manpower

(Pop Duval)

The Black Cat

(The Majordomo)

Charlie Chan's Secret

(Ulrich)

So Dark the Night

(Dr. Boncourt)

Convention City

(Zorb)

The Florentine Dagger

(Karl)

Die Königsloge

Kings Row

(Dr. Candell)

Now and Forever

(Doctor (uncredited))

Judge Hardy and Son

(Anton Volduzzi)

Angels Wash Their Faces

(Mr. Smith)

You and Me

(Mr. Levine)

Isle of Missing Men

(Richard Heller)

Stolen Holiday

(Deputy Bergery)

Air Hawks

(Schulter's Henchman)

I Met Him in Paris

(Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control)

To the Last Man

(Mark Hayden)

The Devil-Doll

(Detective (uncredited))

As the Earth Turns

(Mr. Janowski)

Heidi

(Inn Keeper)

I Was an Adventuress

(Jacques Dubois)

The Women Men Marry

(John (uncredited))

Man Hunt

(Jeweler)

Alibi for Murder

(Sir Conrad Stava)

Racket Busters

(Peters (uncredited))

I'll Give a Million

(Citizen)

Beg, Borrow or Steal

(Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited))

Cocoanut Grove

(Pawnbroker)

Spring Madness

(Soviet Travel Bureau Agent)

The White Angel

(Pastor Fliedner)

Paddy O'Day

(Russian Musician)

Devil's Island

(Debriac)

The Three Musketeers

(Landlord)

Boulder Dam

(Pa Vangarick)

Juarez

(Baron von Magnus (uncredited))

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

(Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited))

We Are Not Alone

(Mr. Adolf Schiller)

Nurse Edith Cavell

(Dr. Gunther)

Espionage Agent

(Larsch)

Arsène Lupin Returns

(Vasseur (uncredited))

O.S.S.

(Marcel Aubert)

No Greater Glory

(Racz)

Sister Kenny

(Frenchman (uncredited))

The Great O'Malley

(Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited))

Espionage

(Chief of Police)

Sins of Man

(Doctor)

Rebecca

(Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited))

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

(Martl)

Calling Philo Vance

(Austrian Judge (uncredited))

Voice of the Whistler

(Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited))

Just Before Dawn

(Dr. Evans (uncredited))

Underground

(Herr Director)

Here's to Romance

(Descartes)

All This, and Heaven Too

(Doctor (uncredited))

Invisible Enemy

(Kirman)

Gateway

(Rabbi)

A Dispatch from Reuters

(Von Konstat (uncredited))

Knute Rockne All American

(Elder in Norway (uncredited))

The Man I Married

(Czech)

The Spy Ring

(General A. R. Bowen)

White Pongo

(Dr. Gerig)

While America Sleeps

(Klaus)

Buyer Beware

(Child's Father (uncredited))

Hotel Imperial

(Pograncz (uncredited))

Four Mothers

(Music Foundation Director (uncredited))

Mark of the Vampire

(Coroner (uncredited))

Suez

(Doctor)

Know Your Money

(Samuels the Druggist (uncredited))

For the Common Defense!

(Adolph (uncredited))

Above Suspicion

(Gestapo Official (Uncredited))

Blondes at Work

(J.Z. Beckman (uncredited))

Mission to Moscow

(Heinrich Sahm (uncredited))

Out of Darkness

(Victor Jourdain (uncredited))

Black Legion

(Dombrowski)

A Royal Scandal

(Wassilikow (uncredited))

Till We Meet Again

(Schultz)

The Diary of a Chambermaid

(The Postman (Uncredited))

Werewolf of London

(Priest (uncredited))

Many Happy Returns

(Dr. Otto von Strudel)