---
name: "Siegfried Breuer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/siegfried-breuer"
fi1m_id: "siegfried-breuer"
imdb_id: "nm0108040"
tmdb_id: 15386
wikidata_id: "Q88251"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 June 1906"
died: "1 February 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:21:52.457772+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Siegfried Breuer

## Identity

Siegfried Breuer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/siegfried-breuer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** siegfried-breuer
- **IMDb ID:** nm0108040
- **TMDB ID:** 15386
- **Wikidata ID:** Q88251
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Breuer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88251, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108040/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15386

Actor. Born 24 June 1906 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. Died 1 February 1954.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 June 1906, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
- **Died:** 1 February 1954
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Breuer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88251, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108040/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15386

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Third Man*](https://film.one/film/the-third-man.md) (92)

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## Biography

Siegfried Breuer (1906–1954) was an Austrian stage and film actor who also directed and wrote films on occasion. Born in Vienna, he was the son of actor and operatic tenor Hans Breuer. He trained at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and made his stage debut at the Volkstheater there in 1924.

Breuer appeared in more than fifty films between 1939 and 1954, often in German-language productions. He is known for his role as Popescu in Carol Reed’s *The Third Man* (1949). He directed, wrote and starred in *Der Schuß durchs Fenster* (1950). His son Siegfried Breuer Jr. and grandchildren Jacques Breuer and Pascal Breuer also worked in the entertainment industry.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Third Man* (1949), Fi1m 92, as Popescu — [page](https://film.one/film/the-third-man.md)

## Complete filmography (52)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine* (1953), as Polizeipräfekt
- *Under the Stars of Capri* (1953), as Reeder Bramfeld
- *Der Vogelhändler* (1953), as Marquis de Tréville
- *The Last Waltz* (1953), as General Krasinski
- *Das Dorf unterm Himmel* (1953), Writer
- *Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen* (1952), as Sophokles
- *When the Heath Dreams at Night* (1952), as Konsul Berghaus
- *You Only Live Once* (1952), as Rollincourt
- *In Munich Stands a Hofbäuhaus* (1951), Director, Writer
- *Johannes und die 13 Schönheitsköniginnen* (1951), as Oberst
- *Shadows Over Naples* (1951), as Der Präfekt
- *City of Violence* (1951), as Il magistrato
- *Eine Frau mit Herz* (1951), as Manfred Schilling
- *Seitensprünge im Schnee* (1951), Director
- *Through Thick and Thin* (1951), as Schulze
- *Regimentsmusik* (1950), as Dr. Robert Rottweil
- *Maresi* (1950), as Tabakovitsch
- *Gabriela* (1950), as Thomas Lorenzen
- *Der Schuß durchs Fenster* (1950), as Kriminalkommissar Rittner · Director
- *Prämien auf den Tod* (1950), as Peter Lissen - Versicherungsagent
- *Zyankali* (1949), as Dr. Frank Morava
- *Vagabunden* (1949), as Andy Karr
- *Alles Lüge* (1949), as Berthold Plamershof - ihr Sohn
- *Das unsterbliche Antlitz* (1949), as Fürst Catti
- *The Third Man* (1949), as Popescu — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/the-third-man.md)
- *Liebling der Welt* (1949), as Harry Belmont
- *Philine* (1949), as Dr. Thomas Bratt - Rechtsanwalt
- *Fregola* (1948), as Pablo Mendez
- *Anni* (1948), as Alexander Radkofsky
- *The Other Life* (1948), as Bukowsky
- *Die Fledermaus* (1946), as Prinz Orlowsky
- *In the Evening After the Opera* (1945), as Rudolph Manders
- *Die tolle Susanne* (1945), Actor
- *Orient Express* (1944), as Baron Erich Hübner
- *Melusine* (1944), as Stefan Brock
- *Gefährlicher Frühling* (1943), as Professor Alfred Lorenz
- *Gabriele Dambrone* (1943), as Paul Madina, Maler
- *Romance in a Minor Key* (1943), as Viktor
- *Sommerliebe* (1942), as Baron von Worowsky
- *Anushka* (1942), as Prof. Felix von Hartberg
- *Menschen im Sturm* (1941), as Hauptmann Rakic
- *Venus on Trial* (1941), as Benjamin Hecht, Kunsthändler
- *The Way to Freedom* (1941), as Graf Stefan Oginski
- *Operette* (1940), as Fürst Hohenburg
- *Vienna Tales* (1940), as Baron von Brelowsky
- *The Postmaster* (1940), as Rittmeister Minskij
- *Nanette* (1940), as 1. Schauspieler
- *Mother Love* (1939), as Kammersänger
- *Anthony the Last* (1939), as Lawyer
- *Leinen aus Irland* (1939), as Dr. Kuhn
- *Immortal Waltz* (1939), Actor
- *Weekend in Paradise* (1931), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Siegfried Breuer](https://film.one/media/person/59032/gallery-de47fe8d1079.jpg) Siegfried Breuer — Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Siegfried_Breuer_%281951%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Grabstein, Siegfried Breuer, Göttinger Stadtfriedhof (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/59032/gallery-aa1ce73415b7.jpg) Grabstein, Siegfried Breuer, Göttinger Stadtfriedhof (2014) — Ray Limern, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/G%C3%B6ttingen_Stadtfriedhof_Grab_Siegfried_Breuer.jpg/960px-G%C3%B6ttingen_Stadtfriedhof_Grab_Siegfried_Breuer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![München: Dreharbeiten zu dem Film In München steht ein Hofbräuhaus; Regisseur Siegfried Breuer (links, sitzend) sowie die Schauspieler Rudolf Melichar und Carl  (1951)](https://film.one/media/person/59032/gallery-c21087668bd0.jpg) München: Dreharbeiten zu dem Film In München steht ein Hofbräuhaus; Regisseur Siegfried Breuer (links, sitzend) sowie die Schauspieler Rudolf Melichar und Carl  (1951) — Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/In_M%C3%BCnchen_steht_ein_Hofbr%C3%A4uhaus_021321.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Siegfried Breuer](https://film.one/media/person/59032/gallery-bc81b340210d.jpg) Siegfried Breuer — Image via TMDB

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