Egon Brecher
- Recitazione
- 15 febbraio 1880 · Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
- 12 agosto 1946
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Così scura la notte · Dr. Boncourt
- L'angelo del dolore · Frenchman (uncredited)
- O.S.S. · Marcel Aubert
- Il caso Foster · Dr. Evans (uncredited)
- Il diario di una cameriera · The Postman (Uncredited)
- Missione di morte
- White Pongo · Dr. Gerig
- Voice of the Whistler · Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
- Scandalo a corte · Wassilikow (uncredited)
- Al di sopra di ogni sospetto · Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
- Mission to Moscow · Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
- Isle of Missing Men · Richard Heller
- For the Common Defense! · Adolph (uncredited)
- Delitti senza castigo · Dr. Candell
- Fulminati · Pop Duval
- Underground · Herr Director
- Duello mortale · Jeweler
- Out of Darkness · Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
- Four Mothers · Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
- A Dispatch from Reuters · Von Konstat (uncredited)
- Knute Rockne All American · Elder in Norway (uncredited)
- Buyer Beware · Child's Father (uncredited)
- The Man I Married · Czech
- Paradiso proibito · Doctor (uncredited)
- I Was an Adventuress · Jacques Dubois
- Rebecca - La prima moglie · Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- Un uomo contro la morte · Martl
- Calling Philo Vance · Austrian Judge (uncredited)
- Know Your Money · Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
- Giudice Hardy e figlio · Anton Volduzzi
- Non siamo soli · Mr. Adolf Schiller
- Espionage Agent · Larsch
- La storia d'Edith Cavell · Dr. Gunther
- Angels Wash Their Faces · Mr. Smith
- Il conquistatore del Messico · Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
- Hotel Imperial · Pograncz (uncredited)
- Confessioni di una spia nazista · Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
- While America Sleeps · Klaus
- D'Artagnan e i tre moschettieri · Landlord
- Devil's Island · Debriac
- Spring Madness · Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
- Suez · Doctor
- Gateway · Rabbi
- I'll Give a Million · Citizen
- Racket Busters · Peters (uncredited)
- You and Me · 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)
- Zoccoletti olandesi · Inn Keeper
- The Women Men Marry · John (uncredited)
- Incontro a Parigi · Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
- Espionage · Chief of Police
- The Great O'Malley · Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
- Stolen Holiday · Deputy Bergery
- Legione nera · Dombrowski
- Alibi for Murder · Sir Conrad Stava
- La bambola del diavolo · 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 - L'ora che uccide · Ulrich
- Here's to Romance · Descartes
- Il segreto del Tibet · Priest (uncredited)
- Air Hawks · Schulter's Henchman
- I vampiri di Praga · Coroner (uncredited)
- The Florentine Dagger · Karl
- Rivelazione · Doctor (uncredited)
- Many Happy Returns · Dr. Otto von Strudel
- The Black Cat · The Majordomo
- I ragazzi della via Pal · Racz
- As the Earth Turns · Mr. Janowski
- Convention City · Zorb
- To the Last Man · Mark Hayden
- Die Königsloge