Egon Brecher

About

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...

Known for

RebeccaMovie • 1940JuarezMovie • 1939HeidiMovie • 1937Knute Rockne All AmericanMovie • 1940The Black CatMovie • 1934All This, and Heaven TooMovie • 1940Mark of the VampireMovie • 1935Black LegionMovie • 1937The Diary of a ChambermaidMovie • 1946The Devil-DollMovie • 1936You and MeMovie • 1938Charlie Chan's SecretMovie • 1936Confessions of a Nazi SpyMovie • 1939Dr. Ehrlich's Magic BulletMovie • 1940Werewolf of LondonMovie • 1935Above SuspicionMovie • 1943A Royal ScandalMovie • 1945Man HuntMovie • 1941Kings RowMovie • 1942To the Last ManMovie • 1933CorneredMovie • 1945Mission to MoscowMovie • 1943So Dark the NightMovie • 1946Now and ForeverMovie • 1934