Edmund Breon

Edmund Breon

Born: December 11, 1882
Died: June 24, 1953
in Hamilton, Scotland, UK
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.

Movies for Edmund Breon...

At Sword's Point
Title: At Sword's Point
Character: Queen's Chamberlain
Released: April 22, 1952
Type: Movie
France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power. As a last resort, Queen Anne summons the heirs of the original Musketeers to her aid...including Claire, daughter of Athos, who when she chooses can miraculously pass as a boy, and wields as fine a sword as any. All their skills will be needed for a battle against increasing odds. One for all and all for one! Written by Rod Crawford
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The Thing from Another World
Title: The Thing from Another World
Character: Prof. Ambrose
Released: April 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
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Challenge to Lassie
Title: Challenge to Lassie
Character: Magistrate
Released: October 31, 1949
Type: Movie
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
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Rope of Sand
Title: Rope of Sand
Character: Parker, Chairman of the Board
Released: August 3, 1949
Type: Movie
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.
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Enchantment
Title: Enchantment
Character: Uncle Bunny
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.
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Hills of Home
Title: Hills of Home
Character: Jamie Soutar
Released: November 25, 1948
Type: Movie
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to swim. At the same time he has the bigger problem that he is getting older and must ensure the glen will have a new local doctor ready.
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Forever Amber
Title: Forever Amber
Character: Lord Redmond
Released: October 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.
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The Imperfect Lady
Title: The Imperfect Lady
Character: Lord Chief Justice
Released: November 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Julian 'Stinky' Emery
Released: May 24, 1946
Type: Movie
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
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Devotion
Title: Devotion
Character: Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
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Saratoga Trunk
Title: Saratoga Trunk
Character: McIntyre (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
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The Man in Half Moon Street
Title: The Man in Half Moon Street
Character: Sir Humphrey Brandon
Released: January 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
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The Woman in the Window
Title: The Woman in the Window
Character: Dr. Michael Barkstane
Released: October 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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Casanova Brown
Title: Casanova Brown
Character: Mr. Drury
Released: August 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.
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The White Cliffs of Dover
Title: The White Cliffs of Dover
Character: Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1944
Type: Movie
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
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The Hour Before the Dawn
Title: The Hour Before the Dawn
Character: Freddy Merritt
Released: May 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
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Gaslight
Title: Gaslight
Character: General Huddleston
Released: May 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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It Happened to One Man
Title: It Happened to One Man
Character: Adm. Drayton
Released: October 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A film directed by Paul L. Stein.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Title: Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Character: Colonel Morgan
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Dr. Ladd
Released: January 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
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Luck of the Navy
Title: Luck of the Navy
Character: Adm. Maybridge
Released: November 27, 1938
Type: Movie
With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.
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Almost a Honeymoon
Title: Almost a Honeymoon
Character: Aubrey Lovitt
Released: November 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A young man who urgently needs to find a wife so that he can get a lucrative job in the colonial service, and sets out to persuade a woman to marry him.
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Crackerjack
Title: Crackerjack
Character: Tony Davenport
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
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A Yank at Oxford
Title: A Yank at Oxford
Character: Captain Wavertree
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
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Owd Bob
Title: Owd Bob
Character: Lord Meredale
Released: January 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
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Keep Fit
Title: Keep Fit
Character: Sir Augustus Marks
Released: July 31, 1937
Type: Movie
A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.
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Love in Exile
Title: Love in Exile
Character: Baron Zarroy
Released: December 9, 1936
Type: Movie
When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance. In reality, he is stepping down so avaricious businessmen can crown their own man king. The deposed monarch spends his exile on the Riviera, while the woman, filled with guilt because he stepped down for her, lives in Holland. Interestingly enough, Edward VIII the King of England abdicated for the love of American woman Wallis Simpson a few weeks after this British film was released.
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The Divine Spark
Title: The Divine Spark
Character: Rossini
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
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She Shall Have Music
Title: She Shall Have Music
Character: Freddie Gates
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from his yacht.. Brian Gates, Freddie's son, has a low-approval-rating and a high dislike for jazz music and refuses board ship with the band on board. His father enters a conspiracy with singer Dorothy Drew to get him on the yacht, where the broadcasts will be made. Brian falls in love with Dorothy, but calls of the romance when he sees her dancing and singing with Hylton's band in Paris. Dorothy induces three members of the band to shanghai Brian when the yacht sails. A rival shipowner, determined to stop the broadcasts, bribes the crew to desert the ship and all hands are left stranded in mid-ocean on the yacht. The band-members manage to extricate them from their predicament and they get back to London, where Hylton is acclaimed and Brian marries Dorothy.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Col. Winterbottom
Released: December 20, 1934
Type: Movie
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Title: The Private Life of Don Juan
Character: Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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Mister Cinders
Title: Mister Cinders
Character: Sir George Lancaster
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' – in this case, an oil millionaire's daughter!
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Three Men in a Boat
Title: Three Men in a Boat
Character: George
Released: April 30, 1933
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on the Thames.
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No Funny Business
Title: No Funny Business
Character: Edmond Kane
Released: March 30, 1933
Type: Movie
'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Leap Year
Title: Leap Year
Character: Jack Debrant
Released: October 11, 1932
Type: Movie
'Affianced Foreign Office agent searches for mystery woman he loves.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Wedding Rehearsal
Title: Wedding Rehearsal
Character: Lord Fleet
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .
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Women Who Play
Title: Women Who Play
Character: Rachie Wells
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
In order to deter his wife from having an affair a man hires an actress as part of an elaborate scheme.
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I Like Your Nerve
Title: I Like Your Nerve
Character: Clive Lattimer
Released: September 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Kolker, Boris Karloff (in the small role of a secretary), Edmund Breon, Claude Allister and Luis Alberni.
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Chances
Title: Chances
Character: The General
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
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Born to Love
Title: Born to Love
Character: Tom Kent (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.
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Uneasy Virtue
Title: Uneasy Virtue
Character: Harvey Townsend
Released: February 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
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The Love Habit
Title: The Love Habit
Character: Alphonse Duboit
Released: January 16, 1931
Type: Movie
'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
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On Approval
Title: On Approval
Character: Richard Wemys
Released: August 26, 1930
Type: Movie
'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Dawn Patrol
Title: The Dawn Patrol
Character: Lieutenant Phipps
Released: July 10, 1930
Type: Movie
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.
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A Little Bit of Fluff
Title: A Little Bit of Fluff
Released: July 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Syd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.
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Severo Torelli
Title: Severo Torelli
Released: May 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own father.
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At the Hour of Dawn
Title: At the Hour of Dawn
Released: April 4, 1914
Type: Movie
When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed of the city's absent ruler, who must return in time to rescue his beloved and save the city.
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Le jocond
Title: Le jocond
Released: March 13, 1914
Type: Movie
The constant smile of the eternally amiable Jacques Perdrot often complicates his life. Appointed chief of police at Castel-Boudin, he takes up his new post accompanied by his maid and his godmother, who watches over his virtue, and by the Widow Gibard, who is determined to marry him. At Castel-Boudin, his smile has great effect, provoking distaste and misunderstandings.
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L'hôtel de la gare
Title: L'hôtel de la gare
Released: February 10, 1914
Type: Movie
In order to take part in a "tournoi des dames", Narcisse Leblond persuades his wife that he is going to look after his sick godmother at Beaucaire. Naturally, the godmother in question arrives at the house a few minutes after his departure...
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Fantomas: The Mysterious Finger Print
Title: Fantomas: The Mysterious Finger Print
Character: Inspector Juve
Released: January 5, 1914
Type: Movie
The press and the public opinion suggest that Inspector Juve may in fact be Fantômas. As Juve is jailed, the actual Fantômas schemes to keep him behind bars forever.
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The Agony of Byzantium
Title: The Agony of Byzantium
Character: Isidore
Released: October 24, 1913
Type: Movie
The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire.
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Fantômas
Title: Fantômas
Character: Inspector Juve
Released: May 9, 1913
Type: Movie
A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecution.
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A Race for Millions
Title: A Race for Millions
Released: December 13, 1912
Type: Movie
If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.
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La cassette de l'émigrée
Title: La cassette de l'émigrée
Released: May 1, 1912
Type: Movie
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André Chénier
Title: André Chénier
Character: Marie-Joseph Chénier
Released: January 1, 1911
Type: Movie
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.
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The Fault of Another
Title: The Fault of Another
Released: December 2, 1910
Type: Movie
A silent short film directed by Louis Feuillade.
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Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
Title: Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
Released: February 27, 1910
Type: Movie
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Monsieur Wants to Get Married
Title: Monsieur Wants to Get Married
Released: January 1, 1910
Type: Movie
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The Beggar's Christmas
Title: The Beggar's Christmas
Character: Le vagabond
Released: January 1, 1910
Type: Movie