Egon Brecher

Egon Brecher

Egon Brecher
Born (1880-02-18)18 February 1880
Olmütz, Austria-Hungary (present-day Olomouc, Czech Republic)
Died 12 October 1946(1946-10-12) (aged 66)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Resting place Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Occupation Actor
Years active 1903–1946

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.

Career

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.[1] He died later in 1946, aged 66, of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California.[1]

Partial filmography

Literature

References

  1. 1 2 Egon Brecher at the Internet Movie Database
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