Acting
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.
Rebecca
1940 · Movie
Kings Row
1942 · Movie
You and Me
1938 · Movie
Heidi
1937 · Movie
Man Hunt
1941 · Movie
Werewolf of London
1935 · Movie
Sister Kenny
1946 · Movie
Above Suspicion
1943 · Movie
The Black Cat
1934 · Movie
Charlie Chan's Secret
1936 · Movie
Juarez
1939 · Movie
Black Legion
1937 · Movie
Cornered
1945 · Movie
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940 · Movie
Racket Busters
1938 · Movie
All This, and Heaven Too
1940 · Movie
Mark of the Vampire
1935 · Movie
A Royal Scandal
1945 · Movie
Knute Rockne All American
1940 · Movie
The Devil-Doll
1936 · Movie
Cocoanut Grove
1938 · Movie
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · Movie
Gateway
1938 · Movie
The Great O'Malley
1937 · Movie
Espionage Agent
1939 · Movie
Four Mothers
1941 · Movie
Mission to Moscow
1943 · Movie
Manpower
1941 · Movie
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938 · Movie
Suez
1938 · Movie
Paddy O'Day
1936 · Movie
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939 · Movie
To the Last Man
1933 · Movie
Boulder Dam
1936 · Movie
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939 · Movie
Know Your Money
1940 · Movie
The Three Musketeers
1939 · Movie
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939 · Movie
Stolen Holiday
1937 · Movie
I'll Give a Million
1938 · Movie
Judge Hardy and Son
1939 · Movie
Isle of Missing Men
1942 · Movie
Air Hawks
1935 · Movie
Spring Madness
1938 · Movie
Now and Forever
1934 · Movie
The Spy Ring
1938 · Movie
We Are Not Alone
1939 · Movie
Convention City
1933 · Movie
Devil's Island
1939 · Movie
Hotel Imperial
1939 · Movie
O.S.S.
1946 · Movie
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940 · Movie
The Florentine Dagger
1935 · Movie
Buyer Beware
1940 · Movie
Underground
1941 · Movie
Calling Philo Vance
1940 · Movie
Just Before Dawn
1946 · Movie
For the Common Defense!
1942 · Movie
As the Earth Turns
1934 · Movie
I Was an Adventuress
1940 · Movie
The White Angel
1936 · Movie
Voice of the Whistler
1945 · Movie
Out of Darkness
1941 · Movie
Many Happy Returns
1934 · Movie
No Greater Glory
1934 · Movie
White Pongo
1945 · Movie
Invisible Enemy
1938 · Movie
Sins of Man
1936 · Movie
So Dark the Night
1946 · Movie
Till We Meet Again
1936 · Movie
Espionage
1937 · Movie
I Met Him in Paris
1937 · Movie
Here's to Romance
1935 · Movie
Blondes at Work
1938 · Movie
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937 · Movie
The Women Men Marry
1937 · Movie
The Man I Married
1940 · Movie
Alibi for Murder
1936 · Movie
Die Königsloge
1929 · Movie
While America Sleeps
1939 · Movie
