Edmund Breon
67 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 11, 1882
- Died
- Jun 24, 1953 (age 70)
- Place of birth
- Hamilton, Scotland, UK
- Also known as
- Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty · Edmond Breon · Edmond Bréon
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.
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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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Edmund Breon: movies and TV shows
Acting (68)
- 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
- 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 Night Mail
as Lord Ticehurst
- 1935 She Shall Have Music
as Freddie Gates
- 1935 Mister Cinders
as Sir George Lancaster
- 1934 The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Col. Winterbottom
- 1934 The Private Life of Don Juan
as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
- 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
- 1922
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1913
- 1913 The Agony of Byzantium
as Isidore
- 1913
- 1913 Les Cerises de Bout-de-Zan
as le père
- 1913 Bout-de-Zan fait les commissions
as le père
- 1913 Fantômas
as Inspector Juve
- 1912
- 1912
- 1910
- 1910
- 1910
- 1910 André Chénier
as Marie-Joseph Chénier
- 1910 The Beggar's Christmas
as Le vagabond
- 1909 La Bous Bous Mée
as Le gendarme tromboniste