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person_profile-Edmund Breon

Edmund Breon Died at age: 70

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Edmund Breon

Date of Birth:

Dec 11, 1882

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Jun 24, 1953

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Edmund Breon

Found 46 Movies in total

At Sword's Point

Queen's Chamberlain ( Actor )

... 1952

The Thing from Another World

Prof. Ambrose ( Actor )

... 1951

Challenge to Lassie

Magistrate ( Actor )

... 1949

Rope of Sand

Parker, Chairman of the Board ( Actor )

... 1949

Enchantment

Uncle Bunny ( Actor )

... 1948

Hills of Home

Jamie Soutar ( Actor )

... 1948

Forever Amber

Lord Redmond ( Actor )

... 1947

The Imperfect Lady

Lord Chief Justice ( Actor )

... 1946

Dressed to Kill

Julian 'Stinky' Emery ( Actor )

... 1946

Devotion

Sir John Thornton (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

Saratoga Trunk

McIntyre (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1945

The Man in Half Moon Street

Sir Humphrey Brandon ( Actor )

... 1945

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

Guide (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

The Woman in the Window

Dr. Michael Barkstane ( Actor )

... 1944

Casanova Brown

Mr. Drury ( Actor )

... 1944

The White Cliffs of Dover

Rupert Bancroft (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

The Hour Before the Dawn

Freddy Merritt ( Actor )

... 1944

Gaslight

General Huddleston ( Actor )

... 1944

... 1944

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Colonel Morgan ( Actor )

... 1939

The Outsider

Dr. Ladd ( Actor )

... 1939

Luck of the Navy

Adm. Maybridge ( Actor )

... 1938

Crackerjack

Tony Davenport ( Actor )

... 1938

A Yank at Oxford

Captain Wavertree ( Actor )

... 1938

Owd Bob

Lord Meredale ( Actor )

... 1938

Keep Fit

Sir Augustus Marks ( Actor )

... 1937

Love in Exile

Baron Zarroy ( Actor )

... 1936

Mister Cinders

Sir George Lancaster ( Actor )

... 1935

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Col. Winterbottom ( Actor )

... 1934

The Private Life of Don Juan

Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go ( Actor )

... 1934

Three Men in a Boat

George ( Actor )

... 1933

No Funny Business

Edmond Kane ( Actor )

... 1933

Wedding Rehearsal

Lord Fleet ( Actor )

... 1932

I Like Your Nerve

Clive Lattimer ( Actor )

... 1931

Chances

The General ( Actor )

... 1931

Born to Love

Tom Kent (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1931

Uneasy Virtue

Harvey Townsend ( Actor )

... 1931

The Love Habit

Alphonse Duboit ( Actor )

... 1931

The Dawn Patrol

Lieutenant Phipps ( Actor )

... 1930

Fantômas: The Man in Black

Inspector Juve (as Edmond Bréon) ( Actor )

... 1914

... 1914

Fantômas: The False Magistrate

Inspector Juve (as Edmond Bréon) ( Actor )

... 1914

Fantômas: The Dead Man Who Killed

Inspector Juve (as Edmond Bréon) ( Actor )

... 1913

Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine

Inspector Juve (as Edmond Bréon) ( Actor )

... 1913

Fantômas

Inspector Juve ( Actor )

... 1913