Cast & creator
Egon Brecher
Best known for Rebecca, Werewolf of London, Mark of the Vampire
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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Filmography (80)
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Rebecca
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
1940
Werewolf of London
Priest (uncredited)
1935
Mark of the Vampire
Coroner (uncredited)
1935
All This, and Heaven Too
Doctor (uncredited)
1940
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
1939
The Black Cat
The Majordomo
1934
Juarez
Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
1939
Knute Rockne All American
Elder in Norway (uncredited)
1940
Heidi
Inn Keeper
1937
Convention City
Zorb
1933
A Royal Scandal
Wassilikow (uncredited)
1945
Sister Kenny
Frenchman (uncredited)
1946
The Diary of a Chambermaid
The Postman (Uncredited)
1946
Mission to Moscow
Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
1943
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Martl
1940
You and Me
Mr. Levine
1938
The Great O'Malley
Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
1937
Angels Wash Their Faces
Mr. Smith
1939
I'll Give a Million
Citizen
1938
The White Angel
Pastor Fliedner
1936
Voice of the Whistler
Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
1945
I Was an Adventuress
Jacques Dubois
1940
A Dispatch from Reuters
Von Konstat (uncredited)
1940
Buyer Beware
Child's Father (uncredited)
1940
I Met Him in Paris
Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
1937
Man Hunt
Jeweler
1941
The Devil-Doll
Detective (uncredited)
1936
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
1937
To the Last Man
Mark Hayden
1933
Black Legion
Dombrowski
1937
So Dark the Night
Dr. Boncourt
1946
Above Suspicion
Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
1943
We Are Not Alone
Mr. Adolf Schiller
1939
The Women Men Marry
John (uncredited)
1937
Devil's Island
Debriac
1939
Here's to Romance
Descartes
1935
The Spy Ring
General A. R. Bowen
1938
Paddy O'Day
Russian Musician
1936
Sins of Man
Doctor
1936
Isle of Missing Men
Richard Heller
1942
Cornered
1945
Gateway
Rabbi
1938
The Man I Married
Czech
1940
Judge Hardy and Son
Anton Volduzzi
1939
Four Mothers
Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
1941
Charlie Chan's Secret
Ulrich
1936
Nurse Edith Cavell
Dr. Gunther
1939
Calling Philo Vance
Austrian Judge (uncredited)
1940
Suez
Doctor
1938
For the Common Defense!
Adolph (uncredited)
1942
Kings Row
Dr. Candell
1942
Manpower
Pop Duval
1941
Arsène Lupin Returns
Vasseur (uncredited)
1938
Cocoanut Grove
Pawnbroker
1938
Till We Meet Again
Schultz
1936
O.S.S.
Marcel Aubert
1946
Espionage Agent
Larsch
1939
As the Earth Turns
Mr. Janowski
1934
The Florentine Dagger
Karl
1935
The Three Musketeers
Landlord
1939
No Greater Glory
Racz
1934
Underground
Herr Director
1941
Espionage
Chief of Police
1937
Blondes at Work
J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
1938
Hotel Imperial
Pograncz (uncredited)
1939
Stolen Holiday
Deputy Bergery
1937
Spring Madness
Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
1938
Racket Busters
Peters (uncredited)
1938
Alibi for Murder
Sir Conrad Stava
1936
Out of Darkness
Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
1941
Just Before Dawn
Dr. Evans (uncredited)
1946
Boulder Dam
Pa Vangarick
1936
Now and Forever
Doctor (uncredited)
1934
Air Hawks
Schulter's Henchman
1935
White Pongo
Dr. Gerig
1945
Invisible Enemy
Kirman
1938
Many Happy Returns
Dr. Otto von Strudel
1934
Know Your Money
Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
1940
Die Königsloge
1929
While America Sleeps
Klaus
1939