Edmund Breon
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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Movies (50)
At Sword's Point
as Queen's Chamberlain
1952
The Thing from Another World
as Prof. Ambrose
1951
Challenge to Lassie
as Magistrate
1949
Rope of Sand
as Parker, Chairman of the Board
1949
Enchantment
as Uncle Bunny
1948
Hills of Home
as Jamie Soutar
1948
Forever Amber
as Lord Redmond
1947
The Imperfect Lady
as Lord Chief Justice
1946
Dressed to Kill
as Julian 'Stinky' Emery
1946
Devotion
as Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
1946
Saratoga Trunk
as McIntyre (uncredited)
1945
The Man in Half Moon Street
as Sir Humphrey Brandon
1945
The Woman in the Window
as Dr. Michael Barkstane
1944
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
as Guide (uncredited)
1944
Casanova Brown
as Mr. Drury
1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
as Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
1944
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Freddy Merritt
1944
Gaslight
as General Huddleston
1944
The Lodger
1944
It Happened to One Man
as Adm. Drayton
1940
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Colonel Morgan
1939
The Outsider
as Dr. Ladd
1939
Luck of the Navy
as Adm. Maybridge
1938
Almost a Honeymoon
as Aubrey Lovitt
1938
Crackerjack
as Tony Davenport
1938
Dangerous Medicine
as Totsie Mainwaring
1938
A Yank at Oxford
as Captain Wavertree
1938
Owd Bob
as Lord Meredale
1938
Keep Fit
as Sir Augustus Marks
1937
Love in Exile
as Baron Zarroy
1936
The Divine Spark
as Rossini
1935
Night Mail
as Lord Ticehurst
1935
She Shall Have Music
as Freddie Gates
1935
Mister Cinders
as Sir George Lancaster
1935
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Col. Winterbottom
1934
The Private Life of Don Juan
as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
1934
Three Men in a Boat
as George
1933
No Funny Business
as Edmond Kane
1933
Leap Year
as Jack Debrant
1932
Wedding Rehearsal
as Lord Fleet
1932
Women Who Play
as Rachie Wells
1932
I Like Your Nerve
as Clive Lattimer
1931
Chances
as The General
1931
Born to Love
as Tom Kent (uncredited)
1931
Uneasy Virtue
as Harvey Townsend
1931
The Love Habit
as Alphonse Duboit
1931
On Approval
as Richard Wemys
1930
The Dawn Patrol
as Lieutenant Phipps
1930
A Little Bit of Fluff
1928
L'écuyère
1922