Egon Brecher

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.

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 classic horror films "The Black Cat", "Werewolf of London", "The Black Room", "Mark of the Vampire" and "Devil Doll", and worked steadily in the espionage films of the 30s and 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 that same year of a heart attack.

Filmography

*The Royal Box - (1930)
*To the Last Man - (1933)
*The Black Cat - (1934)
*Now And Forever - (1934)
*No Greater Glory - (1934)
*Many Happy Returns - (1934)
*Werewolf of London - (1935)
*The Florentine Dagger - (1935)
*The Black Room - (1935)
*Paddy O'day - (1935)
*Black Fury - (1935)
*Mark of the Vampire - (1935)
*The White Angel - (1936)
*Till We Meet Again - (1936)
*Boulder Dam - (1936)
*Sins of Man - (1936)
*The Devil-Doll - (1936)
*Alibi for Murder - (1936)
*Charlie Chan's Secret - (1936)
*One in a Million - (1936)
*Love On the Run - (1936)
*Ladies in Love - (1936)
*Thin Ice - (1937)
*Heidi - (1937)
*Stolen Holiday - (1937)
*Espionage - (1937)
*The Emperor's Candlesticks - (1937)
*Black Legion - (1937)
*Love Under Fire - (1937)
*The Life of Emile Zola - (1937)
*Lancer Spy - (1937)
*I Met Him in Paris - (1937)
*Suez - (1938)
*Arsene Lupin Returns - (1938)
*The Spy Ring - (1938)
*Spawn of the North - (1938)
*Cocoanut Grove - (1938)
*You And Me - (1938)
*Invisible Enemy - (1938)
*We Are Not Alone - (1939)
*Juarez - (1939)
*The Three Musketeers - (1939)
*Angels Wash Their Faces - (1939)
*Espionage Agent - (1939)
*Confessions of a Nazi Spy - (1939)
*Nurse Edith Cavell - (1939)
*Judge Hardy And Son - (1939)
*Four Sons - (1940) - Richter
*Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet - (1940)
*A Dispatch From Reuters - (1940)
*Devil's Island - (1940) - Debriac
*All This And Heaven Too - (1940)
*The Man I Married - (1940)
*Knute Rockne--All American
*I Was an Adventuress - (1940)
*Underground - (1941)
*They Dare Not Love - (1941)
*Manpower - (1941)
*Man Hunt - (1941)
*Kings Row - (1942)
*Isle of Missing Men - (1942)
*Hitler's Children - (1942)
*They Came to Blow Up America - (1943)
*Mission to Moscow - (1943)
*Above Suspicion - (1943)
*The Hairy Ape - (1944)
*U-Boat Prisoner - (1944)
*The Desert Song - (1944)
*White Pongo - (1945)
*Voice of the Whistler - (1945)
*A Royal Scandal - (1945)
*Cornered - (1945)
*The Wife of Monte Cristo
*Temptation - (1946)
*So Dark the Night - (1946)
*Sister Kenny - (1946)
*O.s.s. - (1946)

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