Edmund Breon
Age: 70 | From: Hamilton, Scotland, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1882-12-12 02:07:57
Death: 1953-06-24 02:07:57
Aliases: Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty , Edmond Breon , Edmond Bréon
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Hamilton, Scotland, UK
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Movie Involvements: 41
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Most Famous Work
The Thing from Another World
(1951) Prof. Ambrose
Gaslight
(1944) General Huddleston
The Woman in the Window
(1944) Dr. Michael Barkstane
Dressed to Kill
(1946) Julian 'Stinky' Emery
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(1939) Colonel Morgan
The Scarlet Pimpernel
(1934) Col. Winterbottom
Devotion
(1946) Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
Forever Amber
(1947) Lord RedmondActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Queen's Chamberlain | |
| 1951 | Prof. Ambrose | |
| 1949 | Magistrate | |
| Parker, Chairman of the Board | ||
| 1948 | Uncle Bunny | |
| Jamie Soutar | ||
| 1947 | Lord Redmond | |
| 1946 | Lord Chief Justice | |
| Julian 'Stinky' Emery | ||
| Sir John Thornton (uncredited) | ||
| 1945 | McIntyre (uncredited) | |
| Sir Humphrey Brandon | ||
| 1944 | Dr. Michael Barkstane | |
| Mr. Drury | ||
| Rupert Bancroft (uncredited) | ||
| Freddy Merritt | ||
| General Huddleston | ||
| 1940 | Adm. Drayton | |
| 1939 | Colonel Morgan | |
| Dr. Ladd | ||
| 1938 | Adm. Maybridge | |
| Aubrey Lovitt | ||
| Tony Davenport | ||
| Captain Wavertree | ||
| Lord Meredale | ||
| 1937 | Sir Augustus Marks | |
| 1936 | Baron Zarroy | |
| 1935 | Rossini | |
| Freddie Gates | ||
| 1934 | Col. Winterbottom | |
| Sir George Lancaster | ||
| Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go | ||
| 1933 | George | |
| Edmond Kane | ||
| 1932 | Jack Debrant | |
| Lord Fleet | ||
| Rachie Wells | ||
| 1931 | Clive Lattimer | |
| The General | ||
| Tom Kent (uncredited) | ||
| Harvey Townsend | ||
| Alphonse Duboit | ||
| 1930 | Richard Wemys | |
| Lieutenant Phipps | ||
| 1928 | N/A | |
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| Isidore | ||
| Inspector Juve | ||
| 1912 | N/A | |
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| 1911 | Marie-Joseph Chénier | |
| 1910 | N/A | |
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| Le vagabond | ||
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| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
