Egon Brecher
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Egon Brecher (June 18, 1880 – August 12, 1946) was a Czechoslovakian stage actor and director who toured Austria and Germany acting on the stage, and also served as the chief director of the Stadts Theatre in Vienna, before entering the motion picture industry.
[edit] Career
A 1900 graduate from the University of Heidelberg in Germany, Brecher moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s to appear in foreign-language versions of American films. In the mid-1930s, he appeared in The Black Cat and Mark of the Vampire, and later he worked steadily in the horror and espionage films of the 1940s, his Slavic accent landed him roles to both noble and villainous. One of his largest screen roles was in 1946's So Dark the Night. He died that same year of a heart attack.
[edit] Filmography
- O.s.s. - (1946)
- Sister Kenny - (1946)
- So Dark the Night - (1946)
- Temptation - (1946)
- The Wife of Monte Cristo
- Cornered - (1945)
- A Royal Scandal - (1945)
- Voice of the Whistler - (1945)
- White Pongo - (1945)
- The Desert Song - (1944)
- U-Boat Prisoner - (1944)
- The Hairy Ape - (1944)
- Above Suspicion - (1943)
- Mission to Moscow - (1943)
- They Came to Blow Up America - (1943)
- Hitler's Children - (1942)
- Isle of Missing Men - (1942)
- Kings Row - (1942)
- Man Hunt - (1941)
- Manpower - (1941)
- They Dare Not Love - (1941)
- Underground - (1941)
- I Was an Adventuress - (1940)
- Knute Rockne--All American
- The Man I Married - (1940)
- All This And Heaven Too - (1940)
- Devil's Island - (1940) - Debriac
- A Dispatch From Reuters - (1940)
- Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet - (1940)
- Four Sons - (1940) - Richter
- Judge Hardy And Son - (1939)
- Nurse Edith Cavell - (1939)
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy - (1939)
- Espionage Agent - (1939)
- Angels Wash Their Faces - (1939)
- The Three Musketeers - (1939)
- Juarez - (1939)
- We Are Not Alone - (1939)
- Invisible Enemy - (1938)
- You And Me - (1938)
- Cocoanut Grove - (1938)
- Spawn of the North - (1938)
- The Spy Ring - (1938)
- Arsene Lupin Returns - (1938)
- Suez - (1938)
- I Met Him in Paris - (1937)
- Lancer Spy - (1937)
- The Life of Emile Zola - (1937)
- Love Under Fire - (1937)
- Black Legion - (1937)
- The Emperor's Candlesticks - (1937)
- Espionage - (1937)
- Stolen Holiday - (1937)
- Heidi - (1937)
- Thin Ice - (1937)
- Ladies in Love - (1936)
- Love On the Run - (1936)
- One in a Million - (1936)
- Charlie Chan's Secret - (1936)
- Alibi for Murder - (1936)
- The Devil-Doll - (1936)
- Sins of Man - (1936)
- Boulder Dam - (1936)
- Till We Meet Again - (1936)
- The White Angel - (1936)
- Mark of the Vampire - (1935)
- Black Fury - (1935)
- Paddy O'day - (1935)
- The Black Room - (1935)
- The Florentine Dagger - (1935)
- Werewolf of London - (1935)
- Many Happy Returns - (1934)
- No Greater Glory - (1934)
- Now And Forever - (1934)
- The Black Cat - (1934)
- To the Last Man - (1933)
- The Royal Box - (1930)
