Edmund Breon (12 December 1882 – 24 June 1953) was a Scottish film and stage actor. He appeared in 131 films between 1907 and 1952.
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 (Movies)
At Sword's Point
Character:Queen's Chamberlain
Release Date:22/04/1952
The Thing from Another World
Character:Prof. Ambrose
Release Date:05/04/1951
Challenge to Lassie
Character:Magistrate
Release Date:31/10/1949
Rope of Sand
Character:Parker, Chairman of the Board
Release Date:03/08/1949
Enchantment
Character:Uncle Bunny
Release Date:25/12/1948
Hills of Home
Character:Jamie Soutar
Release Date:25/11/1948
Forever Amber
Character:Lord Redmond
Release Date:10/10/1947
The Imperfect Lady
Character:Lord Chief Justice
Release Date:29/11/1946
Dressed to Kill
Character:Julian 'Stinky' Emery
Release Date:24/05/1946
Devotion
Character:Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
Release Date:05/04/1946
Saratoga Trunk
Character:McIntyre (uncredited)
Release Date:21/11/1945
The Man in Half Moon Street
Character:Sir Humphrey Brandon
Release Date:19/01/1945
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Character:Guide (uncredited)
Release Date:02/11/1944
The Woman in the Window
Character:Dr. Michael Barkstane
Release Date:25/10/1944
Casanova Brown
Character:Mr. Drury
Release Date:23/08/1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
Character:Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
Release Date:11/05/1944
The Hour Before the Dawn
Character:Freddy Merritt
Release Date:10/05/1944
Gaslight
Character:General Huddleston
Release Date:04/05/1944
The Lodger
Character:
Release Date:19/01/1944
It Happened to One Man
Character:Adm. Drayton
Release Date:12/10/1940
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Character:Colonel Morgan
Release Date:28/07/1939
The Outsider
Character:Dr. Ladd
Release Date:30/01/1939
Luck of the Navy
Character:Adm. Maybridge
Release Date:27/11/1938
Almost a Honeymoon
Character:Aubrey Lovitt
Release Date:14/11/1938
Crackerjack
Character:Tony Davenport
Release Date:01/10/1938
Dangerous Medicine
Character:Totsie Mainwaring
Release Date:23/07/1938
A Yank at Oxford
Character:Captain Wavertree
Release Date:18/02/1938
Owd Bob
Character:Lord Meredale
Release Date:26/01/1938
Keep Fit
Character:Sir Augustus Marks
Release Date:31/07/1937
Love in Exile
Character:Baron Zarroy
Release Date:09/12/1936
The Divine Spark
Character:Rossini
Release Date:01/06/1935
Night Mail
Character:Lord Ticehurst
Release Date:01/05/1935
She Shall Have Music
Character:Freddie Gates
Release Date:14/04/1935
Mister Cinders
Character:Sir George Lancaster
Release Date:12/01/1935
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Character:Col. Winterbottom
Release Date:20/12/1934
The Private Life of Don Juan
Character:Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
Release Date:01/01/1934
Three Men in a Boat
Character:George
Release Date:30/04/1933
No Funny Business
Character:Edmond Kane
Release Date:30/03/1933
Leap Year
Character:Jack Debrant
Release Date:11/10/1932
Wedding Rehearsal
Character:Lord Fleet
Release Date:01/10/1932
Women Who Play
Character:Rachie Wells
Release Date:01/03/1932
I Like Your Nerve
Character:Clive Lattimer
Release Date:12/09/1931
Chances
Character:The General
Release Date:18/07/1931
Born to Love
Character:Tom Kent (uncredited)
Release Date:17/04/1931
Uneasy Virtue
Character:Harvey Townsend
Release Date:05/02/1931
The Love Habit
Character:Alphonse Duboit
Release Date:16/01/1931
On Approval
Character:Richard Wemys
Release Date:26/08/1930
The Dawn Patrol
Character:Lieutenant Phipps
Release Date:10/07/1930
A Little Bit of Fluff
Character:
Release Date:28/07/1928
L'écuyère
Character:
Release Date:15/09/1922
Severo Torelli
Character:
Release Date:15/05/1914
At the Hour of Dawn
Character:
Release Date:04/04/1914
Le Jocond
Character:
Release Date:13/03/1914
L'Hôtel de la gare
Character:
Release Date:10/02/1914
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
Character:
Release Date:01/11/1913
The Agony of Byzantium
Character:Isidore
Release Date:24/10/1913
Fantômas
Character:Inspector Juve
Release Date:09/05/1913
A Race for Millions
Character:
Release Date:13/12/1912
La Cassette de l'émigrée
Character:
Release Date:01/05/1912
The Fault of Another
Character:
Release Date:02/12/1910
Monsieur Wants to Get Married
Character:
Release Date:07/10/1910
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
Character:
Release Date:27/02/1910
André Chénier
Character:Marie-Joseph Chénier
Release Date:06/02/1910
The Beggar's Christmas
Character:Le vagabond
Release Date:01/01/1910
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