1880-02-15 Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
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.
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O.S.S. | Marcel Aubert | 1946-05-26 |
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Just Before Dawn | Dr. Evans (uncredited) | 1946-03-07 |
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So Dark the Night | Dr. Boncourt | 1946-10-10 |
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Sister Kenny | Frenchman (uncredited) | 1946-10-10 |
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The Diary of a Chambermaid | The Postman (Uncredited) | 1946-02-15 |
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Cornered | 1945-11-23 | |
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Voice of the Whistler | Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited) | 1945-10-30 |
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White Pongo | Dr. Gerig | 1945-11-02 |
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A Royal Scandal | Wassilikow (uncredited) | 1945-03-26 |
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Above Suspicion | Gestapo Official (Uncredited) | 1943-05-31 |
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Mission to Moscow | Heinrich Sahm (uncredited) | 1943-04-29 |
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For the Common Defense! | Adolph (uncredited) | 1942-06-20 |
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Kings Row | Dr. Candell | 1942-02-02 |
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Isle of Missing Men | Richard Heller | 1942-09-18 |
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Underground | Herr Director | 1941-06-28 |
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Manpower | Pop Duval | 1941-08-09 |
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Man Hunt | Jeweler | 1941-06-13 |
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Four Mothers | Music Foundation Director (uncredited) | 1941-01-04 |
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Out of Darkness | Victor Jourdain (uncredited) | 1941-03-29 |
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Knute Rockne All American | Elder in Norway (uncredited) | 1940-10-05 |
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A Dispatch from Reuters | Von Konstat (uncredited) | 1940-10-19 |
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Calling Philo Vance | Austrian Judge (uncredited) | 1940-02-03 |
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Know Your Money | Samuels the Druggist (uncredited) | 1940-01-27 |
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The Man I Married | Czech | 1940-08-09 |
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All This, and Heaven Too | Doctor (uncredited) | 1940-07-05 |
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | Martl | 1940-02-23 |
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I Was an Adventuress | Jacques Dubois | 1940-05-10 |
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Buyer Beware | Child's Father (uncredited) | 1940-08-17 |
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Rebecca | Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited) | 1940-03-23 |
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Nurse Edith Cavell | Dr. Gunther | 1939-08-31 |
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We Are Not Alone | Mr. Adolf Schiller | 1939-11-25 |
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Angels Wash Their Faces | Mr. Smith | 1939-08-26 |
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Judge Hardy and Son | Anton Volduzzi | 1939-12-22 |
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited) | 1939-05-06 |
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Espionage Agent | Larsch | 1939-09-30 |
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The Three Musketeers | Landlord | 1939-02-17 |
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While America Sleeps | Klaus | 1939-04-14 |
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Juarez | Baron von Magnus (uncredited) | 1939-06-10 |
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Hotel Imperial | Pograncz (uncredited) | 1939-05-11 |
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Devil's Island | Debriac | 1939-01-07 |
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Blondes at Work | J.Z. Beckman (uncredited) | 1938-02-05 |
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Suez | Doctor | 1938-10-28 |
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The Spy Ring | General A. R. Bowen | 1938-01-08 |
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Gateway | Rabbi | 1938-08-05 |
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Invisible Enemy | Kirman | 1938-04-03 |
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Arsène Lupin Returns | Vasseur (uncredited) | 1938-02-25 |
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You and Me | Mr. Levine | 1938-06-01 |
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Cocoanut Grove | Pawnbroker | 1938-05-20 |
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I'll Give a Million | Citizen | 1938-07-27 |
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Racket Busters | Peters (uncredited) | 1938-07-16 |
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Spring Madness | Soviet Travel Bureau Agent | 1938-11-11 |
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Heidi | Inn Keeper | 1937-10-15 |
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The Women Men Marry | John (uncredited) | 1937-09-10 |
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Beg, Borrow or Steal | Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited) | 1937-12-03 |
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I Met Him in Paris | Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control | 1937-05-28 |
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Espionage | Chief of Police | 1937-02-26 |
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The Great O'Malley | Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited) | 1937-02-13 |
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Black Legion | Dombrowski | 1937-01-30 |
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Stolen Holiday | Deputy Bergery | 1937-02-06 |
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Charlie Chan's Secret | Ulrich | 1936-01-10 |
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The Devil-Doll | Detective (uncredited) | 1936-07-10 |
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Sins of Man | Doctor | 1936-06-19 |
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Alibi for Murder | Sir Conrad Stava | 1936-09-23 |
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Till We Meet Again | Schultz | 1936-04-04 |
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The White Angel | Pastor Fliedner | 1936-06-25 |
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Boulder Dam | Pa Vangarick | 1936-03-07 |
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Paddy O'Day | Russian Musician | 1936-01-17 |
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The Florentine Dagger | Karl | 1935-03-30 |
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Werewolf of London | Priest (uncredited) | 1935-05-13 |
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Here's to Romance | Descartes | 1935-10-04 |
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Air Hawks | Schulter's Henchman | 1935-05-07 |
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Mark of the Vampire | Coroner (uncredited) | 1935-04-26 |
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The Black Cat | The Majordomo | 1934-05-07 |
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Many Happy Returns | Dr. Otto von Strudel | 1934-06-08 |
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As the Earth Turns | Mr. Janowski | 1934-02-14 |
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No Greater Glory | Racz | 1934-03-30 |
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Now and Forever | Doctor (uncredited) | 1934-08-31 |
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Convention City | Zorb | 1933-12-14 |
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To the Last Man | Mark Hayden | 1933-09-15 |
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Die Königsloge | 1929-11-21 |
