Egon Brecher

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1880-02-15
Place of Birth: Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
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Movies List of Egon Brecher

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Manpower

1941 Movie
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The Black Cat

1934 Movie
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Charlie Chan's Secret

1936 Movie
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So Dark the Night

1946 Movie
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Convention City

1933 Movie
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The Florentine Dagger

1935 Movie
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Die Königsloge

1929 Movie
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Kings Row

1942 Movie
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Now and Forever

1934 Movie
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Judge Hardy and Son

1939 Movie
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You and Me

1938 Movie
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Isle of Missing Men

1942 Movie
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Stolen Holiday

1937 Movie
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Air Hawks

1935 Movie
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I Met Him in Paris

1937 Movie
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To the Last Man

1933 Movie
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The Devil-Doll

1936 Movie
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As the Earth Turns

1934 Movie
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Heidi

1937 Movie
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I Was an Adventuress

1940 Movie
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The Women Men Marry

1937 Movie
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Man Hunt

1941 Movie
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Alibi for Murder

1936 Movie
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Racket Busters

1938 Movie
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I'll Give a Million

1938 Movie
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Beg, Borrow or Steal

1937 Movie
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Cocoanut Grove

1938 Movie
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Spring Madness

1938 Movie
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The White Angel

1936 Movie
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Paddy O'Day

1936 Movie
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Devil's Island

1939 Movie
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The Three Musketeers

1939 Movie
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Boulder Dam

1936 Movie
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Juarez

1939 Movie
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We Are Not Alone

1939 Movie
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Nurse Edith Cavell

1939 Movie
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Espionage Agent

1939 Movie
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Arsène Lupin Returns

1938 Movie
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O.S.S.

1946 Movie
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No Greater Glory

1934 Movie
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Sister Kenny

1946 Movie
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The Great O'Malley

1937 Movie
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Espionage

1937 Movie
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Sins of Man

1936 Movie
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Rebecca

1940 Movie
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Calling Philo Vance

1940 Movie
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Voice of the Whistler

1945 Movie
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Just Before Dawn

1946 Movie
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Underground

1941 Movie
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Here's to Romance

1935 Movie
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Invisible Enemy

1938 Movie
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Gateway

1938 Movie
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The Man I Married

1940 Movie
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The Spy Ring

1938 Movie
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White Pongo

1945 Movie
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While America Sleeps

1939 Movie
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Buyer Beware

1940 Movie
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Hotel Imperial

1939 Movie
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Four Mothers

1941 Movie
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Mark of the Vampire

1935 Movie
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Suez

1938 Movie
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Know Your Money

1940 Movie
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Above Suspicion

1943 Movie
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Blondes at Work

1938 Movie
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Mission to Moscow

1943 Movie
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Out of Darkness

1941 Movie
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Black Legion

1937 Movie
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A Royal Scandal

1945 Movie
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Till We Meet Again

1936 Movie
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Werewolf of London

1935 Movie
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Many Happy Returns

1934 Movie