Edmund Breon

Born: 1882-12-11

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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The Thing from Another World

as Prof. Ambrose
Released: 1951-04-05

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while...

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The Woman in the Window

as Dr. Michael Barkstane
Released: 1944-10-25

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

as Colonel Morgan
Released: 1939-07-28

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who...

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The White Cliffs of Dover

as Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
Released: 1944-05-11

American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball,...

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Gaslight

as General Huddleston
Released: 1944-05-04

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

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The Lodger

as uncredited
Released: 1944-01-19

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the...

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Dressed to Kill

as Julian 'Stinky' Emery
Released: 1946-05-24

A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing...

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A Yank at Oxford

as Captain Wavertree
Released: 1938-02-18

A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and...

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Enchantment

as Uncle Bunny
Released: 1948-12-25

Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love...

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Forever Amber

as Lord Redmond
Released: 1947-10-10

Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires...

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

as Col. Winterbottom
Released: 1934-12-20

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely...

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Fantômas

as Inspector Juve
Released: 1913-05-09

A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits...

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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

as Guide (uncredited)
Released: 1944-11-02

In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and...

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Rope of Sand

as Parker, Chairman of the Board
Released: 1949-08-03

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking...

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The Man in Half Moon Street

as Sir Humphrey Brandon
Released: 1945-01-19

A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.

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Devotion

as Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
Released: 1946-04-05

In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the...

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Hills of Home

as Jamie Soutar
Released: 1948-11-25

William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a...

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The Hour Before the Dawn

as Freddy Merritt
Released: 1944-05-10

A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English...

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At Sword's Point

as Queen's Chamberlain
Released: 1952-04-22

France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle...

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Challenge to Lassie

as Magistrate
Released: 1949-10-31

When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be...

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Casanova Brown

as Mr. Drury
Released: 1944-08-23

Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled....

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The Dawn Patrol

as Lieutenant Phipps
Released: 1930-07-10

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is...

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Saratoga Trunk

as McIntyre (uncredited)
Released: 1945-11-21

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join...

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Owd Bob

as Lord Meredale
Released: 1938-01-26

Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey...

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Born to Love

as Tom Kent (uncredited)
Released: 1931-04-17

A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been...

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Luck of the Navy

as Adm. Maybridge
Released: 1938-11-27

With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame...

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Crackerjack

as Tony Davenport
Released: 1938-10-01

London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of...

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The Outsider

as Dr. Ladd
Released: 1939-01-30

A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love...

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Mister Cinders

as Sir George Lancaster
Released: 1934-01-01

The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who...

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I Like Your Nerve

as Clive Lattimer
Released: 1931-09-12

Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a...

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The Imperfect Lady

as Lord Chief Justice
Released: 1946-11-29

A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.

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Chances

as The General
Released: 1931-07-18

Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go...

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A Little Bit of Fluff

as uncredited
Released: 1928-07-28

Syd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.

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No Funny Business

as Edmond Kane
Released: 1933-03-30

'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)

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The Private Life of Don Juan

as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
Released: 1934-01-01

What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence....

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The Agony of Byzantium

as Isidore
Released: 1913-10-24

The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine...

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Three Men in a Boat

as George
Released: 1933-04-30

An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three...

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La cassette de l'émigrée

as uncredited
Released: 1912-05-01

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Uneasy Virtue

as Harvey Townsend
Released: 1931-02-05

A comedy film directed by Norman Walker

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Wedding Rehearsal

as Lord Fleet
Released: 1932-10-01

The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her...

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Love in Exile

as Baron Zarroy
Released: 1936-12-09

When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a...

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The Love Habit

as Alphonse Duboit
Released: 1931-01-16

'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)

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Keep Fit

as Sir Augustus Marks
Released: 1937-07-31

A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his...

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The Fault of Another

as uncredited
Released: 1910-12-02

A silent short film directed by Louis Feuillade.

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Severo Torelli

as uncredited
Released: 1914-05-15

Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his...

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Bout-de-Zan et le lion

as uncredited
Released: 1913-11-01

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At the Hour of Dawn

as uncredited
Released: 1914-04-04

When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the...

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