Edmund Breon
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 11, 1882
- Died
- June 24, 1953 (aged 70)
- Birthplace
- Hamilton, Scotland, UK
Biography
Edmund Breon (12 December 1882 – 24 June 1953) was a Scottish film and stage actor. He appeared in 131 films between 1907 and 1952. Born Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, he began in John Hare's touring company and later played on the West End stage and in Glasgow, gaining prominence. According to his grandson, Breon "started out at the turn of the century doing silent pictures in France. Vampire movies", so it is reasonably certain that MacLaverty is indeed the actor who appeared under the name Edmond Bréon in many Gaumont films 1907-1922 including, most famously, playing the part of Inspector Juve for Louis Feuillade in the ground-breaking Fantômas series. He did also appear in a small part in the 1915-1916 Feuillade series Les vampires, although this is not, as his grandson supposes, a horror film. He returned to Britain where he made the film A Little Bit of Fluff (1928), then went to Canada in 1929 and worked on the land. A year later he emigrated to the United States and gained his first big American film part in The Dawn Patrol (1930). Breon appeared in a mixture of British and American films over the following two decades. He also appeared on stage in the West End production of the comedy Spring Meeting in 1938. A 1949 newspaper article noted that Breon's "career has been interrupted by serious illness and an accident which kept him idle for two years." Breon died in his native Scotland on June 24, 1953.
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Filmography
At Sword's Point
Movie · as Queen's Chamberlain
The Thing from Another World
Movie · as Prof. Ambrose
Rope of Sand
Movie · as Parker, Chairman of the Board
Challenge to Lassie
Movie · as Magistrate
Hills of Home
Movie · as Jamie Soutar
Enchantment
Movie · as Uncle Bunny
Forever Amber
Movie · as Lord Redmond
Dressed to Kill
Movie · as Julian 'Stinky' Emery
The Imperfect Lady
Movie · as Lord Chief Justice
Devotion
Movie · as Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
Saratoga Trunk
Movie · as McIntyre (uncredited)
The Man in Half Moon Street
Movie · as Sir Humphrey Brandon
The Woman in the Window
Movie · as Dr. Michael Barkstane
Casanova Brown
Movie · as Mr. Drury
The Hour Before the Dawn
Movie · as Freddy Merritt
The Lodger
Movie
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Movie · as Guide (uncredited)
The White Cliffs of Dover
Movie · as Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
Gaslight
Movie · as General Huddleston
It Happened to One Man
Movie · as Adm. Drayton
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Movie · as Colonel Morgan
The Outsider
Movie · as Dr. Ladd
A Yank at Oxford
Movie · as Captain Wavertree
Owd Bob
Movie · as Lord Meredale
Crackerjack
Movie · as Tony Davenport
Luck of the Navy
Movie · as Adm. Maybridge
Dangerous Medicine
Movie · as Totsie Mainwaring
Almost a Honeymoon
Movie · as Aubrey Lovitt
Keep Fit
Movie · as Sir Augustus Marks
Love in Exile
Movie · as Baron Zarroy
Mister Cinders
Movie · as Sir George Lancaster
She Shall Have Music
Movie · as Freddie Gates
The Divine Spark
Movie · as Rossini
Night Mail
Movie · as Lord Ticehurst
The Private Life of Don Juan
Movie · as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Movie · as Col. Winterbottom
Three Men in a Boat
Movie · as George
No Funny Business
Movie · as Edmond Kane
Leap Year
Movie · as Jack Debrant
Wedding Rehearsal
Movie · as Lord Fleet
Women Who Play
Movie · as Rachie Wells
Chances
Movie · as The General
Born to Love
Movie · as Tom Kent (uncredited)
The Love Habit
Movie · as Alphonse Duboit
I Like Your Nerve
Movie · as Clive Lattimer
Uneasy Virtue
Movie · as Harvey Townsend
On Approval
Movie · as Richard Wemys
The Dawn Patrol
Movie · as Lieutenant Phipps
A Little Bit of Fluff
Movie
L'écuyère
Movie
Le Jocond
Movie
L'Hôtel de la gare
Movie
At the Hour of Dawn
Movie
Severo Torelli
Movie
Fantômas
Movie · as Inspector Juve
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
Movie
The Agony of Byzantium
Movie · as Isidore
Bout-de-Zan fait les commissions
Movie · as le père
Les Cerises de Bout-de-Zan
Movie · as le père
Fantômas
TV · as Inspector Juve · 5 eps
La Cassette de l'émigrée
Movie
A Race for Millions
Movie
André Chénier
Movie · as Marie-Joseph Chénier
The Fault of Another
Movie
The Beggar's Christmas
Movie · as Le vagabond
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
Movie
Monsieur Wants to Get Married
Movie
La Bous Bous Mée
Movie · as Le gendarme tromboniste