Egon Brecher
Biography
Egon Brecher was an actor and director born in Austria who served as chief director of Vienna's Stadttheater before entering motion pictures. Born in Olomouc, Moravia, he gave up philosophy studies at Heidelberg to become an actor. Through 1910 he acted in German and Austrian provincial theaters, then appeared in Vienna under Josef Jarno's direction until 1921. He also helped found Yiddish theater ventures in Vienna and acted in New York's Yiddish theater in 1906 and 1911 before settling there in 1921 for Broadway. Late in the 1920s he served as leading man and stage director for Eva Le Gallienne's troupe, then went to Hollywood for foreign-language versions of American films. During the mid 1930s he appeared in horror pictures including The Black Cat (1934), Werewolf of London (1935), The Black Room (1935), Mark of the Vampire (1935) and The Devil-Doll (1936), and his Slavic accent brought him noble and villainous roles in espionage films. He died in 1946.
66years old at death
- Born Olomouc
- Died Hollywood
- Star sign: AquariusLast day of the sign, on the Pisces cusp
Movie Career
- Films
- 16
- Career span
- 13 years1933 to 1946
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Behind the camera
In 1907, Brecher started an initiative to perform modern Yiddish theater in German. He worked on it with Siegfried Schmitz and people from the student club Theodor Herzl.
Behind the camera
Brecher co-founded the Freie Jüdische Volksbühne in Vienna in 1919 with Isaak Deutsch, Jacob Mestel and others; the Yiddish theater lasted until 1922.
A change of course
Brecher also held the position of chief director at Vienna's Stadttheater, and he did this before he entered the motion picture industry.
Egon Brecher movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Tod Browning directed two of these films, Fritz Lang two and Henry Hathaway two. Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by Tod Browning
All films by Fritz Lang
Henry HathawayDirector, 2 films, 1933 to 1934
All films by Henry Hathaway
Also two films together19 more actors
- Barton MacLaneYou and Me (1938) and To the Last Man (1933)
- Harry CordingThe Black Cat (1934) and To the Last Man (1933)
- Lionel BarrymoreThe Devil-Doll (1936) and Mark of the Vampire (1935)
- Holmes HerbertMan Hunt (1941) and Mark of the Vampire (1935)
- Florence BatesThe Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) and Rebecca (1940)
- Henry KolkerThe Black Room (1935) and Now and Forever (1934)
- Maureen O'SullivanSpring Madness (1938) and The Devil-Doll (1936)
- Judith AndersonThe Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) and Rebecca (1940)
- Shirley TempleHeidi (1937) and Now and Forever (1934)
- Robert GreigThe Devil-Doll (1936) and Mark of the Vampire (1935)
- Eily MalyonMan Hunt (1941) and Mark of the Vampire (1935)
- Warner OlandCharlie Chan's Secret (1935) and Werewolf of London (1935)
- William BaileySpring Madness (1938) and Charlie Chan's Secret (1935)
- Jean HersholtHeidi (1937) and Mark of the Vampire (1935)
- Julie BishopSpring Madness (1938) and The Black Cat (1934)
- Herbert EvansMan Hunt (1941) and Werewolf of London (1935)
- King BaggotThe Devil-Doll (1936) and The Black Cat (1934)
- Carrie DaumeryThe Black Room (1935) and Now and Forever (1934)
- Charlotte GranvilleWerewolf of London (1935) and Now and Forever (1934)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
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