Egon Brecher
- Interprétation
- 15 février 1880 · Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
- 12 août 1946
Biographie
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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Filmographie
- So Dark the Night · Dr. Boncourt
- Sister Kenny · Frenchman (uncredited)
- Les Heros dans l'ombre · Marcel Aubert
- Just Before Dawn · Dr. Evans (uncredited)
- Le Journal d'une femme de chambre · The Postman (Uncredited)
- Pris au piège
- White Pongo · Dr. Gerig
- Voice of the Whistler · Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
- Scandale à la Cour · Wassilikow (uncredited)
- Above Suspicion · Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
- Mission to Moscow · Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
- Isle of Missing Men · Richard Heller
- For the Common Defense! · Adolph (uncredited)
- Crimes sans châtiment · Dr. Candell
- L'Entraîneuse fatale · Pop Duval
- Underground · Herr Director
- Chasse à l'homme · Jeweler
- Out of Darkness · Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
- Four Mothers · Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
- Une dépêche de Reuter · Von Konstat (uncredited)
- Knute Rockne, Tous American · Elder in Norway (uncredited)
- Buyer Beware · Child's Father (uncredited)
- The Man I Married · Czech
- L'Étrangère · Doctor (uncredited)
- Étais-je une aventurière · Jacques Dubois
- Rebecca · Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- La Balle magique du Docteur Ehrlich · Martl
- Appel Philo Vance · Austrian Judge (uncredited)
- Know Your Money · Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
- Judge Hardy and Son · Anton Volduzzi
- We Are Not Alone · Mr. Adolf Schiller
- Espionage Agent · Larsch
- Edith Cavell · Dr. Gunther
- Angels Wash Their Faces · Mr. Smith
- Juarez et Maximilien · Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
- Hotel Imperial · Pograncz (uncredited)
- Les aveux d'un espion nazi · Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
- While America Sleeps · Klaus
- The Three Musketeers · Landlord
- Devil's Island · Debriac
- Spring Madness · Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
- Suez · Doctor
- Gateway · Rabbi
- I'll Give a Million · Citizen
- Menaces sur la ville · Peters (uncredited)
- Casier judiciaire · Mr. Levine
- Cocoanut Grove · Pawnbroker
- Invisible Enemy · Kirman
- Arsène Lupin Returns · Vasseur (uncredited)
- Blondes at Work · J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
- The Spy Ring · General A. R. Bowen
- Beg, Borrow or Steal · Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
- Heïdi la sauvageonne · Inn Keeper
- The Women Men Marry · John (uncredited)
- A Paris tous les trois · Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
- Espionage · Chief of Police
- Septième district · Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
- Stolen Holiday · Deputy Bergery
- La Légion noire · Dombrowski
- Alibi for Murder · Sir Conrad Stava
- Les Poupées du diable · Detective (uncredited)
- The White Angel · Pastor Fliedner
- Sins of Man · Doctor
- Till We Meet Again · Schultz
- Boulder Dam · Pa Vangarick
- Paddy O'Day · Russian Musician
- Charlie Chan's Secret · Ulrich
- Here's to Romance · Descartes
- Le Monstre de Londres · Priest (uncredited)
- Air Hawks · Schulter's Henchman
- La Marque du vampire · Coroner (uncredited)
- The Florentine Dagger · Karl
- C'est pour toujours · Doctor (uncredited)
- Many Happy Returns · Dr. Otto von Strudel
- Le Chat noir · The Majordomo
- No Greater Glory · Racz
- As the Earth Turns · Mr. Janowski
- Convention City · Zorb
- To the Last Man · Mark Hayden
- Die Königsloge