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.

Till We Meet Again

Schultz

Mission to Moscow

Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)

Convention City

Zorb

Kings Row

Dr. Candell

Rebecca

Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Alibi for Murder

Sir Conrad Stava

Espionage Agent

Larsch

Now and Forever

Doctor (uncredited)

The Diary of a Chambermaid

The Postman (Uncredited)

Cocoanut Grove

Pawnbroker

The Women Men Marry

John (uncredited)

Above Suspicion

Gestapo Official (Uncredited)

Suez

Doctor

Underground

Herr Director

We Are Not Alone

Mr. Adolf Schiller

Gateway

Rabbi

The Florentine Dagger

Karl

Juarez

Baron von Magnus (uncredited)

Here's to Romance

Descartes

Racket Busters

Peters (uncredited)

Die Königsloge

As the Earth Turns

Mr. Janowski

A Dispatch from Reuters

Von Konstat (uncredited)

Espionage

Chief of Police

Sister Kenny

Frenchman (uncredited)

Angels Wash Their Faces

Mr. Smith

The Great O'Malley

Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)

Heidi

Inn Keeper

Man Hunt

Jeweler

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)

Invisible Enemy

Kirman

Werewolf of London

Priest (uncredited)

Black Legion

Dombrowski

Calling Philo Vance

Austrian Judge (uncredited)

Spring Madness

Soviet Travel Bureau Agent

Air Hawks

Schulter's Henchman

The Black Cat

The Majordomo

Knute Rockne All American

Elder in Norway (uncredited)

Boulder Dam

Pa Vangarick

Arsène Lupin Returns

Vasseur (uncredited)

Many Happy Returns

Dr. Otto von Strudel

Manpower

Pop Duval

Mark of the Vampire

Coroner (uncredited)

All This, and Heaven Too

Doctor (uncredited)

I'll Give a Million

Citizen

Charlie Chan's Secret

Ulrich

You and Me

Mr. Levine

Four Mothers

Music Foundation Director (uncredited)

A Royal Scandal

Wassilikow (uncredited)

Know Your Money

Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)

The Man I Married

Czech

The Devil-Doll

Detective (uncredited)

The Three Musketeers

Landlord

O.S.S.

Marcel Aubert

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Martl

Devil's Island

Debriac

The Spy Ring

General A. R. Bowen

For the Common Defense!

Adolph (uncredited)

I Met Him in Paris

Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control

White Pongo

Dr. Gerig

Stolen Holiday

Deputy Bergery

No Greater Glory

Racz

I Was an Adventuress

Jacques Dubois

The White Angel

Pastor Fliedner

Blondes at Work

J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)

Out of Darkness

Victor Jourdain (uncredited)

Paddy O'Day

Russian Musician

Judge Hardy and Son

Anton Volduzzi

Just Before Dawn

Dr. Evans (uncredited)

Voice of the Whistler

Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)

Sins of Man