1880-02-15 ( 145 years old ) in Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
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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.
Movies
So Dark the Night
1946-10-10
Sister Kenny
1946-10-10
O.S.S.
1946-05-26
Just Before Dawn
1946-03-07
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946-02-15
White Pongo
1945-11-02
Voice of the Whistler
1945-10-30
A Royal Scandal
1945-03-26
Above Suspicion
1943-05-31
Mission to Moscow
1943-04-29
Isle of Missing Men
1942-09-18
For the Common Defense!
1942-06-20
Kings Row
1942-02-02
Manpower
1941-08-09
Underground
1941-06-28
Man Hunt
1941-06-13
Out of Darkness
1941-03-29
Four Mothers
1941-01-04
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940-10-19
Knute Rockne All American
1940-10-05
Buyer Beware
1940-08-17
The Man I Married
1940-08-09
All This, and Heaven Too
1940-07-05
I Was an Adventuress
1940-05-10
Rebecca
1940-03-23
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940-02-23
Calling Philo Vance
1940-02-03
Know Your Money
1940-01-27
Judge Hardy and Son
1939-12-22
We Are Not Alone
1939-11-25
Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939-08-31
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939-08-26
Juarez
1939-06-10
Hotel Imperial
1939-05-11
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939-05-06
While America Sleeps
1939-04-14
The Three Musketeers
1939-02-17
Devil's Island
1939-01-07
Spring Madness
1938-11-11
Suez
1938-10-28
Gateway
1938-08-05
I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27
Racket Busters
1938-07-16
You and Me
1938-06-01
Cocoanut Grove
1938-05-20
Invisible Enemy
1938-04-03
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938-02-25
Blondes at Work
1938-02-05
The Spy Ring
1938-01-08
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937-12-03
Heidi
1937-10-15
The Women Men Marry
1937-09-10
I Met Him in Paris
1937-05-28
Espionage
1937-02-26
The Great O'Malley
1937-02-13
Stolen Holiday
1937-02-06
Black Legion
1937-01-30
Alibi for Murder
1936-09-23
The Devil-Doll
1936-07-10
The White Angel
1936-06-25
Sins of Man
1936-06-19
Till We Meet Again
1936-04-04
Boulder Dam
1936-03-07
Paddy O'Day
1936-01-17
Charlie Chan's Secret
1936-01-10
Here's to Romance
1935-10-04
Werewolf of London
1935-05-13
Air Hawks
1935-05-07
Mark of the Vampire
1935-04-26
The Florentine Dagger
1935-03-30
Now and Forever
1934-08-31
Many Happy Returns
1934-06-08
The Black Cat
1934-05-07
No Greater Glory
1934-03-30
As the Earth Turns
1934-02-14
Convention City
1933-12-14
To the Last Man
1933-09-15
Die Königsloge
1929-11-21
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