Egon Brecher

Egon Brecher

Born: February 15, 1880
Died: August 12, 1946
in Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]
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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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So Dark the Night
Title: So Dark the Night
Character: Dr. Boncourt
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
Inspector Cassin, a renowned Paris detective, departs to the country for a much-needed break. There he falls in love with the innkeeper’s daughter, Nanette, who is already betrothed to a local farmer. On the evening of their engagement party, Nanette and the farmer both disappear. Cassin takes up the case immediately to discover what happened to them and who is responsible.
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Sister Kenny
Title: Sister Kenny
Character: Frenchman (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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O.S.S.
Title: O.S.S.
Character: Marcel Aubert
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.
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Just Before Dawn
Title: Just Before Dawn
Character: Dr. Evans (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1946
Type: Movie
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
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The Diary of a Chambermaid
Title: The Diary of a Chambermaid
Character: The Postman (Uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
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White Pongo
Title: White Pongo
Character: Dr. Gerig
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
Suspecting that a safari guide is a wanted killer, undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop (Richard Fraser) joins a safari led by the suspect for a scientist that hopes to find and prove that a fabled white gorilla is a missing link.
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Voice of the Whistler
Title: Voice of the Whistler
Character: Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
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A Royal Scandal
Title: A Royal Scandal
Character: Wassilikow (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
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Above Suspicion
Title: Above Suspicion
Character: Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Isle of Missing Men
Title: Isle of Missing Men
Character: Richard Heller
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
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For the Common Defense!
Title: For the Common Defense!
Character: Adolph (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1942
Type: Movie
This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent travels to Chile and Colombia. He works with local authorities to try to thwart an Axis plan to ship stolen ammunition.
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Kings Row
Title: Kings Row
Character: Dr. Candell
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Pop Duval
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Herr Director
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Jeweler
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
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Out of Darkness
Title: Out of Darkness
Character: Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1941
Type: Movie
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells of the Nazis' efforts to shut down an underground resistance newspaper in occupied Belgium.
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Four Mothers
Title: Four Mothers
Character: Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Title: A Dispatch from Reuters
Character: Von Konstat (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Elder in Norway (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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Buyer Beware
Title: Buyer Beware
Character: Child's Father (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1940
Type: Movie
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
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The Man I Married
Title: The Man I Married
Character: Czech
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
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All This, and Heaven Too
Title: All This, and Heaven Too
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
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I Was an Adventuress
Title: I Was an Adventuress
Character: Jacques Dubois
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
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Rebecca
Title: Rebecca
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Martl
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Calling Philo Vance
Title: Calling Philo Vance
Character: Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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Know Your Money
Title: Know Your Money
Character: Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.
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Judge Hardy and Son
Title: Judge Hardy and Son
Character: Anton Volduzzi
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.
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We Are Not Alone
Title: We Are Not Alone
Character: Mr. Adolf Schiller
Released: November 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: Larsch
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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Nurse Edith Cavell
Title: Nurse Edith Cavell
Character: Dr. Gunther
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Title: Angels Wash Their Faces
Character: Mr. Smith
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: Pograncz (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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While America Sleeps
Title: While America Sleeps
Character: Klaus
Released: April 14, 1939
Type: Movie
An episode in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Dave Miller, an aircraft plant worker, is actually selling secret bomber plans to foreign agents. United States Intelligence Department agents plan to trap him and the spies he works for.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Landlord
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Devil's Island
Title: Devil's Island
Character: Debriac
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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Spring Madness
Title: Spring Madness
Character: Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson (Maureen O'Sullivan).
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Suez
Title: Suez
Character: Doctor
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Rabbi
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: Citizen
Released: July 27, 1938
Type: Movie
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
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Racket Busters
Title: Racket Busters
Character: Peters (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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You and Me
Title: You and Me
Character: Mr. Levine
Released: June 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
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Cocoanut Grove
Title: Cocoanut Grove
Character: Pawnbroker
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
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Invisible Enemy
Title: Invisible Enemy
Character: Kirman
Released: April 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
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Arsène Lupin Returns
Title: Arsène Lupin Returns
Character: Vasseur (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
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Blondes at Work
Title: Blondes at Work
Character: J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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The Spy Ring
Title: The Spy Ring
Character: General A. R. Bowen
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
Title: Beg, Borrow or Steal
Character: Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
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Heidi
Title: Heidi
Character: Inn Keeper
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
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The Women Men Marry
Title: The Women Men Marry
Character: John (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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I Met Him in Paris
Title: I Met Him in Paris
Character: Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.
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Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: Chief of Police
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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The Great O'Malley
Title: The Great O'Malley
Character: Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1937
Type: Movie
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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Stolen Holiday
Title: Stolen Holiday
Character: Deputy Bergery
Released: February 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
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Black Legion
Title: Black Legion
Character: Dombrowski
Released: January 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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Alibi for Murder
Title: Alibi for Murder
Character: Sir Conrad Stava
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
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The Devil-Doll
Title: The Devil-Doll
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Pastor Fliedner
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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Sins of Man
Title: Sins of Man
Character: Doctor
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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Till We Meet Again
Title: Till We Meet Again
Character: Schultz
Released: April 4, 1936
Type: Movie
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage. But the War comes and Elsa mysteriously disappears. Alan's ease in speaking German results in his appointment to the British Intelligence and, to aid his use as a spy, they announce he was killed in action. He takes the name and personality of "shell-shocked" Hans Teller, a German prisoner, and is sent into Germany on an exchange of prisoners.
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Boulder Dam
Title: Boulder Dam
Character: Pa Vangarick
Released: March 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
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Paddy O'Day
Title: Paddy O'Day
Character: Russian Musician
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
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Charlie Chan's Secret
Title: Charlie Chan's Secret
Character: Ulrich
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered soon after. When his body is discovered during a seance, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect, and it's up to Chan to find the murderer before he or she strikes again.
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Here's to Romance
Title: Here's to Romance
Character: Descartes
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
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Werewolf of London
Title: Werewolf of London
Character: Priest (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
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Air Hawks
Title: Air Hawks
Character: Schulter's Henchman
Released: May 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
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Mark of the Vampire
Title: Mark of the Vampire
Character: Coroner (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora, or perhaps his daughter, but receive little help from the law. Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with the investigation.
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The Florentine Dagger
Title: The Florentine Dagger
Character: Karl
Released: March 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
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Now and Forever
Title: Now and Forever
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has been living with his rich deceased wife's family. Pennie appears to be just what Jerry needs to mend his swindling ways and lead a straight life. Then a corruptible influence enters his life.
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Many Happy Returns
Title: Many Happy Returns
Character: Dr. Otto von Strudel
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.
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The Black Cat
Title: The Black Cat
Character: The Majordomo
Released: May 7, 1934
Type: Movie
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
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No Greater Glory
Title: No Greater Glory
Character: Racz
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
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As the Earth Turns
Title: As the Earth Turns
Character: Mr. Janowski
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
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Convention City
Title: Convention City
Character: Zorb
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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To the Last Man
Title: To the Last Man
Character: Mark Hayden
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.
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Die Königsloge
Title: Die Königsloge
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie