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.
Gaslight
as General HuddlestonA newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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The Thing from Another World
as Prof. AmbroseScientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while...
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Dressed to Kill
as Julian 'Stinky' EmeryA convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing...
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Colonel MorganA shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who...
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The Woman in the Window
as Dr. Michael BarkstaneA seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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The White Cliffs of Dover
as Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball,...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Col. Winterbottom18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely...
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The Lodger
as uncreditedIn Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the...
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Forever Amber
as Lord RedmondAmber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires...
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Casanova Brown
as Mr. DruryCass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled....
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Fantômas
as Inspector JuveA French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits...
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A Yank at Oxford
as Captain WavertreeA brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and...
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Saratoga Trunk
as McIntyre (uncredited)An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join...
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At Sword's Point
as Queen's ChamberlainFrance, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle...
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Rope of Sand
as Parker, Chairman of the BoardStory of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking...
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Devotion
as Sir John Thornton (uncredited)In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the...
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The Private Life of Don Juan
as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights GoWhat do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence....
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Challenge to Lassie
as MagistrateWhen Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be...
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The Hour Before the Dawn
as Freddy MerrittA beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English...
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Enchantment
as Uncle BunnyRoland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love...
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Hills of Home
as Jamie SoutarWilliam McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a...
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Born to Love
as Tom Kent (uncredited)A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been...
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I Like Your Nerve
as Clive LattimerRomance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a...
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Crackerjack
as Tony DavenportLondon has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of...
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The Dawn Patrol
as Lieutenant PhippsWorld War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is...
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Wedding Rehearsal
as Lord FleetThe grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her...
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
as Guide (uncredited)In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and...
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The Imperfect Lady
as Lord Chief JusticeA British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
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Chances
as The GeneralTwo brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go...
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Keep Fit
as Sir Augustus MarksA weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his...
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The Man in Half Moon Street
as Sir Humphrey BrandonA British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
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Mister Cinders
as Sir George LancasterThe Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who...
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Luck of the Navy
as Adm. MaybridgeWith Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame...
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The Outsider
as Dr. LaddA controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love...
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Owd Bob
as Lord MeredaleAdam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey...
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A Little Bit of Fluff
as uncreditedSyd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.
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No Funny Business
as Edmond Kane'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Love in Exile
as Baron ZarroyWhen a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a...
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The Agony of Byzantium
as IsidoreThe fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine...
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Uneasy Virtue
as Harvey TownsendA comedy film directed by Norman Walker
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Three Men in a Boat
as GeorgeAn adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three...
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Severo Torelli
as uncreditedPisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his...
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The Fault of Another
as uncreditedA silent short film directed by Louis Feuillade.
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The Love Habit
as Alphonse Duboit'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
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At the Hour of Dawn
as uncreditedWhen a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the...
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