Josef Egger (actor)

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Josef Egger , actually Joseph Egger (born February 22, 1889 in Donawitz , † August 29, 1966 in Gablitz ), was an Austrian actor .

Life

Josef Egger became secretary in 1907 and office manager in 1908 at the Stadttheater Leoben , where he also took on minor roles. He decided to become an actor and then played in Linz, among other places. In 1915 he got an engagement at the Raimundtheater in Vienna.

Egger took on mostly comic roles in operettas in the twenties and appeared on various stages in Vienna as well as at the Raimund Theater. In the early 1930s he appeared at the Deutsches Theater in Munich. At this time he received the first film offers.

Often he only played small supporting roles at the side of Hans Moser , like a bailiff in Schrammeln , a clerk in love is duty-free , a postman in The Herr Kanzleirat . Characters with a Czech accent were his specialty. In the few leading roles, for example as Windischgruber in Der Hofrat Geiger or as the frog in Géza from Bolváry's Die Fledermaus , he was able to show that he had a lot of character originality, but in Hans Moser's era there was only room for an original owl. At the end of his career, Josef Egger played a gravedigger in the first spaghetti western For a Fistful of Dollars from 1964 and a quirky old man in the sequel For a Few Dollars More from the following year.

His grave is in the Gablitz cemetery .

Joseph Egger had three sons. One died young, the second became a well-known classical pianist ( he played live on the radio broadcast for the signing of the State Treaty in 1955 ), who later emigrated to Brazil, the youngest, Josef Egger, b. 1925, first followed in his father's footsteps, but after a brief engagement at the Stadttheater in Baden near Vienna decided to pursue a career as a representative of well-known companies such as Suchard and Westinghouse. He supports cultural projects in Spain, Austria and Switzerland.

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personal data
SURNAME Egger, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egger, Joseph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Donawitz , Duchy of Styria, Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1966
Place of death Gablitz , Lower Austria, Austria