Egon Brecher

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1880-02-15 (66 years old)

Deathday

1946-08-12

Place of Birth

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

Egon Brecher

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 ...

Acting

1941

Manpower

as Pop Duval

1934

The Black Cat

as The Majordomo

1946

So Dark the Night

as Dr. Boncourt

1933

1942

Kings Row

as Dr. Candell

1934

Now and Forever

as Doctor (uncredited)

1939

Judge Hardy and Son

as Anton Volduzzi

1939

1938

You and Me

as Mr. Levine

1942

Isle of Missing Men

as Richard Heller

1937

Stolen Holiday

as Deputy Bergery

1935

Air Hawks

as Schulter's Henchman

1937

I Met Him in Paris

as Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control

1933

To the Last Man

as Mark Hayden

1936

The Devil-Doll

as Detective (uncredited)

1934

As the Earth Turns

as Mr. Janowski

1937

Heidi

as Inn Keeper

1940

I Was an Adventuress

as Jacques Dubois

1937

The Women Men Marry

as John (uncredited)

1941

Man Hunt

as Jeweler

1936

Alibi for Murder

as Sir Conrad Stava

1938

Racket Busters

as Peters (uncredited)

1938

1937

Beg, Borrow or Steal

as Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)

1938

Cocoanut Grove

as Pawnbroker

1938

Spring Madness

as Soviet Travel Bureau Agent

1936

The White Angel

as Pastor Fliedner

1936

Paddy O'Day

as Russian Musician

1939

Devil's Island

as Debriac

1939

1936

Boulder Dam

as Pa Vangarick

1939

Juarez

as Baron von Magnus (uncredited)

1939

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

as Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)

1939

We Are Not Alone

as Mr. Adolf Schiller

1939

Nurse Edith Cavell

as Dr. Gunther

1939

1938

Arsène Lupin Returns

as Vasseur (uncredited)

1946

O.S.S.

as Marcel Aubert

1934

1946

Sister Kenny

as Frenchman (uncredited)

1937

The Great O'Malley

as Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)

1937

Espionage

as Chief of Police

1936

Sins of Man

as Doctor

1940

Rebecca

as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

1940

Calling Philo Vance

as Austrian Judge (uncredited)

1945

Voice of the Whistler

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

1946

Just Before Dawn

as Dr. Evans (uncredited)

1941

Underground

as Herr Director

1935

Here's to Romance

as Descartes

1940

All This, and Heaven Too

as Doctor (uncredited)

1938

1938

Gateway

as Rabbi

1940

A Dispatch from Reuters

as Von Konstat (uncredited)

1940

Knute Rockne All American

as Elder in Norway (uncredited)

1940

1938

The Spy Ring

as General A. R. Bowen

1945

White Pongo

as Dr. Gerig

1940

Buyer Beware

as Child's Father (uncredited)

1939

Hotel Imperial

as Pograncz (uncredited)

1941

Four Mothers

as Music Foundation Director (uncredited)

1935

Mark of the Vampire

as Coroner (uncredited)

1938

Suez

as Doctor

1940

Know Your Money

as Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)

1942

For the Common Defense!

as Adolph (uncredited)

1943

Above Suspicion

as Gestapo Official (Uncredited)

1938

Blondes at Work

as J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)

1943

Mission to Moscow

as Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)

1941

Out of Darkness

as Victor Jourdain (uncredited)

1937

Black Legion

as Dombrowski

1945

A Royal Scandal

as Wassilikow (uncredited)

1936

1946

The Diary of a Chambermaid

as The Postman (Uncredited)

1935

Werewolf of London

as Priest (uncredited)

1934

Many Happy Returns

as Dr. Otto von Strudel

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