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So Dark the Night

as Dr. Boncourt

1946
The Diary of a Chambermaid

as The Postman (Uncredited)

1946
Just Before Dawn

as Dr. Evans (uncredited)

1946
Voice of the Whistler

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

1945
White Pongo

as Dr. Gerig

1945
Isle of Missing Men

as Richard Heller

1942
For the Common Defense!

as Adolph (uncredited)

1942
I Was an Adventuress

as Jacques Dubois

1940
Charlie Chan's Secret

as Ulrich

1936
Boulder Dam

as Pa Vangarick

1936
Till We Meet Again

as Schultz

1936
Alibi for Murder

as Sir Conrad Stava

1936
The Black Cat

as The Majordomo

1934
To the Last Man

as Mark Hayden

1933
Egon Brecher Egon Brecher

Birthday

1880-02-16

Place of Birth

Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]

Biography

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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