Egon Brecher

Works
Actor (13),
Birthday
1880-02-15

Egon Brecher - known for his work in such projectsAdvice for working with the Map of emotions: «Rebecca» (1940), «Heidi» (1937), «Werewolf of London» (1935), «All This, and Heaven Too» (1940), «The Black Cat» (1934),

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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.

The most significant works of Egon Brecher

Rebecca
Rebecca (1940)
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Man Hunt (1941)
Character: Jeweler
Manpower (1941)
Character: Pop Duval
The Black Cat (1934)
Character: The Majordomo - Leading
Above Suspicion (1943)
Character: Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Werewolf of London (1935)
Character: Priest (uncredited)
Heidi (1937)
Character: Inn Keeper
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
Character: Coroner (uncredited)
Black Legion (1937)
Character: Dombrowski
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)


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