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Man
11 Dec 1882
24 June 1953 (70)
Hamilton, Scotland, UK
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.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1952 | At Sword's Point | Queen's Chamberlain |
1951 | The Thing from Another World | Prof. Ambrose |
1949 | Rope of Sand | Parker, Chairman of the Board |
1949 | Challenge to Lassie | Magistrate |
1948 | Hills of Home | Jamie Soutar |
1948 | Enchantment | Uncle Bunny |
1947 | Forever Amber | Lord Redmond |
1946 | Dressed to Kill | Julian 'Stinky' Emery |
1946 | Devotion | Sir John Thornton (uncredited) |
1946 | The Imperfect Lady | Lord Chief Justice |
1945 | Saratoga Trunk | McIntyre (uncredited) |
1945 | The Man in Half Moon Street | Sir Humphrey Brandon |
1944 | Gaslight | General Huddleston |
1944 | The Woman in the Window | Dr. Michael Barkstane |
1944 | The Lodger | |
1944 | Casanova Brown | Mr. Drury |
1944 | The White Cliffs of Dover | Rupert Bancroft (uncredited) |
1944 | The Hour Before the Dawn | Freddy Merritt |
1944 | Our Hearts Were Young and Gay | Guide (uncredited) |
1940 | It Happened to One Man | Adm. Drayton |
1939 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Colonel Morgan |
1939 | The Outsider | Dr. Ladd |
1938 | A Yank at Oxford | Captain Wavertree |
1938 | Owd Bob | Lord Meredale |
1938 | Crackerjack | Tony Davenport |
1938 | Luck of the Navy | Adm. Maybridge |
1938 | Dangerous Medicine | Totsie Mainwaring |
1938 | Almost a Honeymoon | Aubrey Lovitt |
1937 | Keep Fit | Sir Augustus Marks |
1936 | Love in Exile | Baron Zarroy |
1935 | She Shall Have Music | Freddie Gates |
1935 | The Divine Spark | Rossini |
1934 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Col. Winterbottom |
1934 | The Private Life of Don Juan | Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go |
1934 | Mister Cinders | Sir George Lancaster |
1933 | Three Men in a Boat | George |
1933 | No Funny Business | Edmond Kane |
1932 | Wedding Rehearsal | Lord Fleet |
1932 | Leap Year | Jack Debrant |
1932 | Women Who Play | Rachie Wells |
1931 | I Like Your Nerve | Clive Lattimer |
1931 | Born to Love | Tom Kent (uncredited) |
1931 | Chances | The General |
1931 | The Love Habit | Alphonse Duboit |
1931 | Uneasy Virtue | Harvey Townsend |
1930 | The Dawn Patrol | Lieutenant Phipps |
1930 | On Approval | Richard Wemys |
1928 | A Little Bit of Fluff | |
1914 | Le jocond | |
1914 | L'hôtel de la gare | |
1914 | At the Hour of Dawn | |
1914 | Severo Torelli | |
1913 | Fantômas | Inspector Juve |
1913 | The Agony of Byzantium | Isidore |
1913 | Bout-de-Zan et le lion | |
1912 | La cassette de l'émigrée | |
1912 | A Race for Millions | |
1910 | André Chénier | Marie-Joseph Chénier |
1910 | The Fault of Another | |
1910 | The Beggar's Christmas | Le vagabond |
1910 | Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike | |
1910 | Monsieur Wants to Get Married |