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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
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Movie Involvements: 63
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Rebecca
(1940) Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)Werewolf of London
(1935) Priest (uncredited)Man Hunt
(1941) JewelerHeidi
(1937) Inn KeeperAll This, and Heaven Too
(1940) Doctor (uncredited)Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
(1940) MartlConfessions of a Nazi Spy
(1939) Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)The Black Cat
(1934) The MajordomoActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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1946 | Dr. Boncourt | |
Frenchman (uncredited) | ||
Marcel Aubert | ||
Dr. Evans (uncredited) | ||
The Postman (Uncredited) | ||
1945 | Dr. Gerig | |
Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited) | ||
Wassilikow (uncredited) | ||
1943 | Gestapo Official (Uncredited) | |
Heinrich Sahm (uncredited) | ||
1942 | Richard Heller | |
Adolph (uncredited) | ||
Dr. Candell | ||
1941 | Pop Duval | |
Herr Director | ||
Jeweler | ||
Victor Jourdain (uncredited) | ||
Music Foundation Director (uncredited) | ||
1940 | Von Konstat (uncredited) | |
Elder in Norway (uncredited) | ||
Child's Father (uncredited) | ||
Czech | ||
Doctor (uncredited) | ||
Jacques Dubois | ||
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited) | ||
Martl | ||
Austrian Judge (uncredited) | ||
Samuels the Druggist (uncredited) | ||
1939 | Anton Volduzzi | |
Mr. Adolf Schiller | ||
Larsch | ||
Dr. Gunther | ||
Mr. Smith | ||
Baron von Magnus (uncredited) | ||
Pograncz (uncredited) | ||
Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited) | ||
Klaus | ||
Landlord | ||
Debriac | ||
1938 | Soviet Travel Bureau Agent | |
Doctor | ||
Rabbi | ||
Citizen | ||
Peters (uncredited) | ||
Mr. Levine | ||
Pawnbroker | ||
Kirman | ||
Vasseur (uncredited) | ||
J.Z. Beckman (uncredited) | ||
General A. R. Bowen | ||
1937 | Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited) | |
Inn Keeper | ||
John (uncredited) | ||
Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control | ||
Chief of Police | ||
Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited) | ||
Deputy Bergery | ||
Dombrowski | ||
1936 | Sir Conrad Stava | |
Detective (uncredited) | ||
Pastor Fliedner | ||
Doctor | ||
Schultz | ||
Pa Vangarick | ||
Russian Musician | ||
Ulrich | ||
1935 | Descartes | |
Priest (uncredited) | ||
Schulter's Henchman | ||
Coroner (uncredited) | ||
Karl | ||
1934 | Doctor (uncredited) | |
Dr. Otto von Strudel | ||
The Majordomo | ||
Racz | ||
Mr. Janowski | ||
1933 | Zorb | |
Mark Hayden | ||
1929 | N/A | |
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