Egon Brecher
Date of birth: 1880-02-15
Place of birth: Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
Known for: Acting
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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.
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Manpower
1941-08-09
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and
The Black Cat
1934-05-07
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Wer
Charlie Chan's Secret
1936-01-10
Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of
So Dark the Night
1946-10-10
Inspector Cassin, a renowned Paris detective, departs to the country for a much-needed break. There
Convention City
1933-12-14
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. Presid
The Florentine Dagger
1935-03-30
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
Die Königsloge
1929-11-21
Kings Row
1942-02-02
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin the
Now and Forever
1934-08-31
Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry
Judge Hardy and Son
1939-12-22
Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939-08-26
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending
You and Me
1938-06-01
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in
Isle of Missing Men
1942-09-18
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him.
Stolen Holiday
1937-02-06
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bo
Air Hawks
1935-05-07
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine th
I Met Him in Paris
1937-05-28
Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new sui
To the Last Man
1933-09-15
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison
The Devil-Doll
1936-07-10
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scienti
As the Earth Turns
1934-02-14
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring
Heidi
1937-10-15
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her re
I Was an Adventuress
1940-05-10
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two ac
The Women Men Marry
1937-09-10
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
Man Hunt
1941-06-13
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bav
Alibi for Murder
1936-09-23
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish
Racket Busters
1938-07-16
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937-12-03
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of
Cocoanut Grove
1938-05-20
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Spring Madness
1938-11-11
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go
The White Angel
1936-06-25
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs
Paddy O'Day
1936-01-17
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an
Devil's Island
1939-01-07
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
The Three Musketeers
1939-02-17
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on
Boulder Dam
1936-03-07
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on th
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939-05-06
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Juarez
1939-06-10
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment f
We Are Not Alone
1939-11-25
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939-08-31
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son o
Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938-02-25
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle i
O.S.S.
1946-05-26
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (ba
No Greater Glory
1934-03-30
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
Sister Kenny
1946-10-10
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences gr
The Great O'Malley
1937-02-13
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly a
Espionage
1937-02-26
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours
Sins of Man
1936-06-19
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to lo
Rebecca
1940-03-23
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940-02-23
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syph
Calling Philo Vance
1940-02-03
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to
Voice of the Whistler
1945-10-30
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
Just Before Dawn
1946-03-07
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summon
Underground
1941-06-28
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich
Here's to Romance
1935-10-04
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take
Invisible Enemy
1938-04-03
Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent
Gateway
1938-08-05
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists th
All This, and Heaven Too
1940-07-05
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Du
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940-10-19
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age
Knute Rockne All American
1940-10-05
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
The Man I Married
1940-08-09
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
The Spy Ring
1938-01-08
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when
White Pongo
1945-11-02
Suspecting that a safari guide is a wanted killer, undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop (Richard Fra
While America Sleeps
1939-04-14
An episode in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Dave Miller, an aircraft plant worker, is actually se
Buyer Beware
1940-08-17
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
Hotel Imperial
1939-05-11
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrian
Four Mothers
1941-01-04
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
Mark of the Vampire
1935-04-26
Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications p
Suez
1938-10-28
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and
Know Your Money
1940-01-27
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring an
Above Suspicion
1943-05-31
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
For the Common Defense!
1942-06-20
This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the
Blondes at Work
1938-02-05
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself a
Mission to Moscow
1943-04-29
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th
Out of Darkness
1941-03-29
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells of the Nazis' efforts to shut down an underground res
Black Legion
1937-01-30
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining
A Royal Scandal
1945-03-26
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
Till We Meet Again
1936-04-04
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946-02-15
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use
Many Happy Returns
1934-06-08
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a
Werewolf of London
1935-05-13
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.