Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Egon Brecher (February 18, 1880 - August 12, 1946) was a Czechoslovakian stage actor and director who toured Austria and Germany acting on the stage, and also served as the chief director of the Stadts Theatre in Vienna, before entering the motion picture industry. Born as a son of a professor, he began to study philosophy in 1900 at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He did not finish his studies, because he decided to become an actor. He debuted either in 1900 (according to Zalmen Zylbercwaig) in the play Das neue Ghetto (The new ghetto) by Theodor Herzl or in 1903 on the Vienna stage in Grillparzer¿s Sappho.