So Dark the Night
1946 · Movie
as Dr. Boncourt
Egon Brecher
1880-02-15
•
Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
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.
Filmography
O.S.S.
1946 · Movie
as Marcel Aubert
Sister Kenny
1946 · Movie
as Frenchman (uncredited)
Just Before Dawn
1946 · Movie
as Dr. Evans (uncredited)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · Movie
as The Postman (Uncredited)
Voice of the Whistler
1945 · Movie
as Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
White Pongo
1945 · Movie
as Dr. Gerig
A Royal Scandal
1945 · Movie
as Wassilikow (uncredited)
Cornered
1945 · Movie
Above Suspicion
1943 · Movie
as Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
1943 · Movie
as Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
Kings Row
1942 · Movie
as Dr. Candell
Isle of Missing Men
1942 · Movie
as Richard Heller
For the Common Defense!
1942 · Movie
as Adolph (uncredited)
Manpower
1941 · Movie
as Pop Duval
Man Hunt
1941 · Movie
as Jeweler
Underground
1941 · Movie
as Herr Director
Four Mothers
1941 · Movie
as Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
Out of Darkness
1941 · Movie
as Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
I Was an Adventuress
1940 · Movie
as Jacques Dubois
Rebecca
1940 · Movie
as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940 · Movie
as Martl
Calling Philo Vance
1940 · Movie
as Austrian Judge (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
1940 · Movie
as Doctor (uncredited)
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940 · Movie
as Von Konstat (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
1940 · Movie
as Elder in Norway (uncredited)
The Man I Married
1940 · Movie
as Czech
Buyer Beware
1940 · Movie
as Child's Father (uncredited)
Know Your Money
1940 · Movie
as Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
Judge Hardy and Son
1939 · Movie
as Anton Volduzzi
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939 · Movie
as Mr. Smith
Devil's Island
1939 · Movie
as Debriac
The Three Musketeers
1939 · Movie
as Landlord
Juarez
1939 · Movie
as Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939 · Movie
as Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
We Are Not Alone
1939 · Movie
as Mr. Adolf Schiller
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939 · Movie
as Dr. Gunther
Espionage Agent
1939 · Movie
as Larsch
While America Sleeps
1939 · Movie
as Klaus
Hotel Imperial
1939 · Movie
as Pograncz (uncredited)
You and Me
1938 · Movie
as Mr. Levine
Racket Busters
1938 · Movie
as Peters (uncredited)
I'll Give a Million
1938 · Movie
as Citizen
Cocoanut Grove
1938 · Movie
as Pawnbroker
Spring Madness
1938 · Movie
as Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938 · Movie
as Vasseur (uncredited)
Invisible Enemy
1938 · Movie
as Kirman
Gateway
1938 · Movie
as Rabbi
The Spy Ring
1938 · Movie
as General A. R. Bowen
Suez
1938 · Movie
as Doctor
Blondes at Work
1938 · Movie
as J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
Stolen Holiday
1937 · Movie
as Deputy Bergery
I Met Him in Paris
1937 · Movie
as Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
Heidi
1937 · Movie
as Inn Keeper
The Women Men Marry
1937 · Movie
as John (uncredited)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937 · Movie
as Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
The Great O'Malley
1937 · Movie
as Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Espionage
1937 · Movie
as Chief of Police
Black Legion
1937 · Movie
as Dombrowski
Charlie Chan's Secret
1936 · Movie
as Ulrich
The Devil-Doll
1936 · Movie
as Detective (uncredited)
Alibi for Murder
1936 · Movie
as Sir Conrad Stava
The White Angel
1936 · Movie
as Pastor Fliedner
Paddy O'Day
1936 · Movie
as Russian Musician
Boulder Dam
1936 · Movie
as Pa Vangarick
Sins of Man
1936 · Movie
as Doctor
Till We Meet Again
1936 · Movie
as Schultz
The Florentine Dagger
1935 · Movie
as Karl
Air Hawks
1935 · Movie
as Schulter's Henchman
Here's to Romance
1935 · Movie
as Descartes
Mark of the Vampire
1935 · Movie
as Coroner (uncredited)
Werewolf of London
1935 · Movie
as Priest (uncredited)
The Black Cat
1934 · Movie
as The Majordomo
Now and Forever
1934 · Movie
as Doctor (uncredited)
As the Earth Turns
1934 · Movie
as Mr. Janowski
No Greater Glory
1934 · Movie
as Racz
Many Happy Returns
1934 · Movie
as Dr. Otto von Strudel
Convention City
1933 · Movie
as Zorb
To the Last Man
1933 · Movie
as Mark Hayden
Die Königsloge
1929 · Movie
