🎬Egon Brecher

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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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Just Before Dawn (1946)	Dr. Evans (uncredited)	-	-
2	The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)	The Postman (Uncredited)		4
3	So Dark the Night (1946)	Dr. Boncourt		4
4	Sister Kenny (1946)	Frenchman (uncredited)	-	-
5	Voice of the Whistler (1945)	Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)		4
6	Cornered (1945)	-		4
7	Kings Row (1942)	Dr. Candell		4
8	Man Hunt (1941)	Jeweler		4
9	Manpower (1941)	Pop Duval		5
10	Knute Rockne All American (1940)	Elder in Norway (uncredited)		3
11	Rebecca (1940)	Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)		7.4
12	All This, and Heaven Too (1940)	Doctor (uncredited)		3
13	Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)	Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)		4
14	Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)	Mr. Smith	-	-
15	Juarez (1939)	Baron von Magnus (uncredited)	-	-
16	You and Me (1938)	Mr. Levine		4
17	Black Legion (1937)	Dombrowski		5
18	Heidi (1937)	Inn Keeper		3
19	The Devil-Doll (1936)	Detective (uncredited)		2
20	Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)	Ulrich	-	-
21	Werewolf of London (1935)	Priest (uncredited)		7.5
22	Mark of the Vampire (1935)	Coroner (uncredited)		6.5
23	No Greater Glory (1934)	Racz		8
24	The Black Cat (1934)	The Majordomo		7