Edmund Breese
From Wikipedia Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo (1893), The Lion and the Mouse (1906) with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree (1909) with Helen Ware, The Master Mind (1913) with Elliott Dexter, the popular World War I era play Why Marry? (1917) with Estelle Winwood & Nat C. Goodwin and So This Is London (1922) with Donald Gallaher. He appeared in 129 films between 1914 and 1935. He is best remembered as the advice-giving German businessman at the beginning of the war film All Quiet on the Western Front. His final role was on stage in Night of January 16th from September 1935 to April 1936. Just before the play ended its run, Breese developed peritonitis, which he died from on April 6, 1936.
Known For
Credits
- 1934 · Broadway Bill as Presiding Judge
- 1934 · Lost in the Stratosphere as Col. Brooks
- 1934 · Treasure Island as Pirate of the Spanish Main
- 1934 · Return of the Terror as Editor
- 1934 · Come On, Marines! as General Cabot
- 1934 · Dancing Man as J.C. Trevor
- 1934 · Beloved as Maj. Tarrant
- 1933 · Above the Clouds as Crusty
- 1933 · Duck Soup as Zander
- 1933 · Female as Board Member (Uncredited)
- 1933 · Only Yesterday as Investor (Uncredited)
- 1933 · A Man of Sentiment as John Russell Sr.
- 1933 · Trying Out Torchy as Mr. Ellins
- 1933 · How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points as Himself
- 1933 · Laughing at Life as Cabinet Officer
- 1933 · Fighting With Kit Carson as Matt Fargo
- 1933 · International House as Doctor Wong
- 1933 · Torchy Turns Turtle as Mr. Ellins
- 1933 · On Your Guard as Prison Warden
- 1933 · Torchy's Kitty Coup as Edward (Hickory) Ellins
- 1933 · The Billion Dollar Scandal as Mr. Haddock
- 1932 · The Match King as Olaf Christofsen
- 1932 · Madame Butterfly as Cho-Cho's Grandfather
- 1932 · Women Won't Tell as Attorney for the Defense
- 1932 · The Golden West as Sam Lynch
- 1932 · Torchy Rolls His Own as Mr. Ellins
- 1932 · Torchy's Busy Day as Hickory Ellins
- 1932 · The Cabin in the Cotton as Holmes Scott
- 1932 · Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure as Colonel Shelby
- 1932 · Drifting Souls as Brad Martin
- 1932 · The Hurricane Express as The Secretary's Father
- 1932 · Alias Mary Smith as Mr. Hayes
- 1932 · Torchy's Two Toots as Hickory Ellins
- 1932 · As You Desire Me as Friar
- 1932 · Torchy Raises the Auntie as Mr. Ellins
- 1932 · Young Bride as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
- 1932 · Torchy's Night Cap as Hickory Ellins
- 1932 · Love Bound as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
- 1932 · Police Court as Judge Robert Webster
- 1932 · The Reckoning as Doc
- 1932 · Cross-Examination as Dwight Simpson
- 1932 · Torchy Turns the Trick as Hickory Ellins
- 1932 · The Hatchet Man as Yu Chang
- 1931 · Mata Hari as Warden
- 1931 · Torchy Passes the Buck as Mr. Ellins
- 1931 · Platinum Blonde as Conroy
- 1931 · Morals for Women as Mr. Hutson
- 1931 · Chinatown After Dark as Le Fong
- 1931 · Torchy as Hickory Ellins
- 1931 · The Public Defender as Frank Wells
- 1931 · Defenders of the Law as Capt. Bill Houston
- 1931 · The Good Bad Girl as J.P. Henderson
- 1931 · Young Sinners as Trent
- 1931 · The She-Wolf as
- 1931 · Millie as Defense Attorney
- 1931 · The Painted Desert as Judge Matthews
- 1930 · Chiselers of Hollywood as
- 1930 · Tol'able David as Hunter Kinemon
- 1930 · Kismet as Jawan
- 1930 · Playboy of Paris as General de Karodek
- 1930 · Bright Lights as Franklin Harris
- 1930 · Top Speed as Spencer Colgate
- 1930 · The Sea Bat as Maddocks
- 1930 · Rough Waters as Captain Thomas
- 1930 · The Czar of Broadway as
- 1930 · All Quiet on the Western Front as Herr Meyer
- 1930 · Hold Everything as Pop O'Keefe
- 1929 · In the Headlines as Eddy
- 1929 · The Hottentot as Ollie
- 1929 · Girl Overboard as Jim Keefe
- 1929 · Sonny Boy as Thorpe
- 1929 · Fancy Baggage as John Hardin
- 1928 · Conquest as William Holden
- 1928 · On Trial as Judge
- 1928 · The Haunted House as Uncle Herbert
- 1928 · The Wright Idea as Mr. Filbert
- 1928 · The Perfect Crime as Wilmot
- 1928 · Burning Daylight as John Dossett
- 1928 · Finders Keepers as Hastings
- 1927 · Back to Liberty as Tom Devon
- 1927 · Paradise for Two as Uncle Howard
- 1926 · Stepping Along as Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
- 1926 · The Brown Derby as John J. Caldwell
- 1926 · The Highbinders as Mike Harrigan
- 1925 · Womanhandled as Uncle Lester
- 1925 · The Live Wire as Sawdust Sam
- 1925 · The Early Bird as The Great La Tour
- 1924 · The Speed Spook as Chuck Brady
- 1924 · The Sixth Commandment as Col. Saunders
- 1924 · Damaged Hearts as Innkeeper
- 1924 · Restless Wives as Hobart Richards
- 1923 · Three O'Clock in the Morning as Mr. Winthrop
- 1923 · Bright Lights of Broadway as Reverend Graham Drake
- 1923 · Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers as Edmund MacDonald
- 1923 · Luck as Alan Crosby
- 1922 · Sure-Fire Flint as Johnny Jetts
- 1922 · Beyond the Rainbow as Insp. Richardson
- 1921 · Burn 'Em Up Barnes as King Cole
- 1920 · Chains of Evidence as Judge Frank Sturgis
- 1919 · Someone Must Pay as Charles Bryant
- 1919 · An Honorable Cad as
- 1918 · The Master Crook as
- 1916 · The Weakness of Strength as Daniel Gaynor
- 1916 · The Spell of the Yukon as Jim Carson
- 1916 · The Lure of Heart's Desire as Jim Carew
- 1915 · The Song of the Wage Slave as