Edmund Breon
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.
Known For
Credits
- 1952 · At Sword's Point as Queen's Chamberlain
- 1951 · The Thing from Another World as Prof. Ambrose
- 1949 · Challenge to Lassie as Magistrate
- 1949 · Rope of Sand as Parker, Chairman of the Board
- 1948 · Enchantment as Uncle Bunny
- 1948 · Hills of Home as Jamie Soutar
- 1947 · Forever Amber as Lord Redmond
- 1946 · The Imperfect Lady as Lord Chief Justice
- 1946 · Dressed to Kill as Julian 'Stinky' Emery
- 1946 · Devotion as Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
- 1945 · Saratoga Trunk as McIntyre (uncredited)
- 1945 · The Man in Half Moon Street as Sir Humphrey Brandon
- 1944 · Our Hearts Were Young and Gay as Guide (uncredited)
- 1944 · The Woman in the Window as Dr. Michael Barkstane
- 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 as
- 1940 · It Happened to One Man as Adm. Drayton
- 1939 · Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Colonel Morgan
- 1939 · The Outsider as Dr. Ladd
- 1938 · 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
- 1937 · Keep Fit as Sir Augustus Marks
- 1936 · Love in Exile as Baron Zarroy
- 1935 · The Divine Spark as Rossini
- 1935 · She Shall Have Music as Freddie Gates
- 1934 · The Scarlet Pimpernel as Col. Winterbottom
- 1934 · The Private Life of Don Juan as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
- 1934 · Mister Cinders as Sir George Lancaster
- 1933 · Three Men in a Boat as George
- 1933 · No Funny Business as Edmond Kane
- 1932 · Leap Year as Jack Debrant
- 1932 · Wedding Rehearsal as Lord Fleet
- 1932 · Women Who Play as Rachie Wells
- 1931 · 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
- 1930 · On Approval as Richard Wemys
- 1930 · The Dawn Patrol as Lieutenant Phipps
- 1928 · A Little Bit of Fluff as
- 1914 · Severo Torelli as
- 1914 · At the Hour of Dawn as
- 1914 · Le jocond as
- 1914 · L'hôtel de la gare as
- 1913 · Bout-de-Zan et le lion as
- 1913 · The Agony of Byzantium as Isidore
- 1913 · Fantômas as Inspector Juve
- 1912 · A Race for Millions as
- 1912 · La cassette de l'émigrée as
- 1910 · The Fault of Another as
- 1910 · Monsieur Wants to Get Married as
- 1910 · Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike as
- 1910 · André Chénier as Marie-Joseph Chénier
- 1910 · The Beggar's Christmas as Le vagabond