Egon Brecher
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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.
Acted in
So Dark the Night
1946
as Dr. Boncourt
Sister Kenny
1946
as Frenchman (uncredited)
O.S.S.
1946
as Marcel Aubert
Just Before Dawn
1946
as Dr. Evans (uncredited)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946
as The Postman (Uncredited)
White Pongo
1945
as Dr. Gerig
Voice of the Whistler
1945
as Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
A Royal Scandal
1945
as Wassilikow (uncredited)
Above Suspicion
1943
as Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
1943
as Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
Isle of Missing Men
1942
as Richard Heller
For the Common Defense!
1942
as Adolph (uncredited)
Kings Row
1942
as Dr. Candell
Manpower
1941
as Pop Duval
Underground
1941
as Herr Director
Man Hunt
1941
as Jeweler
Out of Darkness
1941
as Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
Four Mothers
1941
as Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
as Von Konstat (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
1940
as Elder in Norway (uncredited)
Buyer Beware
1940
as Child's Father (uncredited)
The Man I Married
1940
as Czech
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
as Doctor (uncredited)
I Was an Adventuress
1940
as Jacques Dubois
Rebecca
1940
as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
as Martl
Calling Philo Vance
1940
as Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Know Your Money
1940
as Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
Judge Hardy and Son
1939
as Anton Volduzzi
We Are Not Alone
1939
as Mr. Adolf Schiller
Espionage Agent
1939
as Larsch
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939
as Dr. Gunther
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939
as Mr. Smith
Juarez
1939
as Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Hotel Imperial
1939
as Pograncz (uncredited)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
as Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
While America Sleeps
1939
as Klaus
The Three Musketeers
1939
as Landlord
Devil's Island
1939
as Debriac
Spring Madness
1938
as Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
Suez
1938
as Doctor
Gateway
1938
as Rabbi
I'll Give a Million
1938
as Citizen
Racket Busters
1938
as Peters (uncredited)
You and Me
1938
as Mr. Levine
Cocoanut Grove
1938
as Pawnbroker
Invisible Enemy
1938
as Kirman
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938
as Vasseur (uncredited)
Blondes at Work
1938
as J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
The Spy Ring
1938
as General A. R. Bowen
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
as Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Heidi
1937
as Inn Keeper
The Women Men Marry
1937
as John (uncredited)
I Met Him in Paris
1937
as Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
Espionage
1937
as Chief of Police
The Great O'Malley
1937
as Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Stolen Holiday
1937
as Deputy Bergery
Black Legion
1937
as Dombrowski
Alibi for Murder
1936
as Sir Conrad Stava
The Devil-Doll
1936
as Detective (uncredited)
The White Angel
1936
as Pastor Fliedner
Sins of Man
1936
as Doctor
Till We Meet Again
1936
as Schultz
Boulder Dam
1936
as Pa Vangarick
Paddy O'Day
1936
as Russian Musician
Charlie Chan's Secret
1936
as Ulrich
Here's to Romance
1935
as Descartes
Werewolf of London
1935
as Priest (uncredited)
Air Hawks
1935
as Schulter's Henchman
Mark of the Vampire
1935
as Coroner (uncredited)
The Florentine Dagger
1935
as Karl
Now and Forever
1934
as Doctor (uncredited)
Many Happy Returns
1934
as Dr. Otto von Strudel
The Black Cat
1934
as The Majordomo
No Greater Glory
1934
as Racz
As the Earth Turns
1934
as Mr. Janowski
Convention City
1933
as Zorb
To the Last Man
1933
as Mark Hayden
Die Königsloge
1929