Cast
Edmund Breese
Acting
Cast
Edmund Breese
Known for
Acting
Born
1871-06-17
From
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died
1936-04-06
Biography
From Wikipedia Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo (1893), The Lion and the Mouse (1906) with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree (1909) with Helen Ware, The Master Mind (1913) with Elliott Dexter, the popular World War I era play Why Marry? (1917) with Estelle Winwood & Nat C. Goodwin and So This Is London (1922) with Donald Gallaher. He appeared in 129 films between 1914 and 1935. He is best remembered as the advice-giving German businessman at the beginning of the war film All Quiet on the Western Front. His final role was on stage in Night of January 16th from September 1935 to April 1936. Just before the play ended its run, Breese developed peritonitis, which he died from on April 6, 1936.
★7.8
MOVIE1930
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Herr Meyer
★6.2
MOVIE1931
Mata Hari
as Warden
★6.5
MOVIE1934
Treasure Island
as Pirate of the Spanish Main
★4.0
MOVIE1932
Love Bound
as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
★7.3
MOVIE1933
Duck Soup
as Zander
★7.0
MOVIE1923
Marriage Morals
as Harry's Father
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Wildfire
as Sen. Woodhurst
★8.0
MOVIE1920
A Common Level
as Matthew Ryan
★7.1
MOVIE1933
Only Yesterday
as Investor (Uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1927
Home Made
as Mr. Tilford
★9.0
MOVIE1927
Paradise for Two
as Uncle Howard
MOVIE1931
Torchy
as Hickory Ellins
★6.0
MOVIE1934
Broadway Bill
as Presiding Judge
★9.0
MOVIE1929
Girls Gone Wild
as Judge Elliott
★6.7
MOVIE1933
On Your Guard
as Prison Warden
★5.4
MOVIE1932
The Hurricane Express
as The Secretary's Father
★6.3
MOVIE1932
The Cabin in the Cotton
as Holmes Scott
MOVIE1920
His Temporary Wife
as Judge Laton
★7.3
MOVIE1933
Laughing at Life
as Cabinet Officer
★5.4
MOVIE1932
The Hatchet Man
as Yu Chang
★8.0
MOVIE1933
Torchy's Kitty Coup
as Edward (Hickory) Ellins
★6.5
MOVIE1931
The Good Bad Girl
as J.P. Henderson
★6.7
MOVIE1931
Platinum Blonde
as Conroy
★9.0
MOVIE1923
The Fair Cheat
as Morgan Van Dam
★5.2
MOVIE1931
The Painted Desert
as Judge Matthews
★7.0
MOVIE1922
The Curse of Drink
as John Rand
★5.4
MOVIE1932
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-cho San's Grandfather
★8.0
MOVIE1935
The Marriage Bargain
as Judge Robert Stanhope
★8.0
MOVIE1923
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
as Edmund MacDonald
MOVIE1933
Trying Out Torchy
as Mr. Ellins
★6.3
MOVIE1933
Female
as Board Member (Uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1933
International House
as Doctor Wong
★5.3
MOVIE1931
Millie
as Defense Attorney
★6.5
MOVIE1934
Return of the Terror
as Editor
★6.4
MOVIE1932
As You Desire Me
as Friar
★6.4
MOVIE1931
The Public Defender
as Frank Wells
★10.0
MOVIE1919
Someone Must Pay
as Charles Bryant
MOVIE1931
Torchy Passes the Buck
as Mr. Ellins
MOVIE1918
The Master Crook
★5.2
MOVIE1930
Bright Lights
as Franklin Harris
★8.0
MOVIE1933
Ladies Must Love
as Thomas Van Dyne
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Finders Keepers
as Hastings
★7.0
MOVIE1930
Playboy of Paris
as General de Karodek
★10.0
MOVIE1929
In the Headlines
as Eddy
★4.2
MOVIE1932
Young Bride
as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
★6.7
MOVIE1932
The Match King
as Olaf Christofsen
★8.0
MOVIE1932
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
as Colonel Shelby
★8.0
MOVIE1930
Hold Everything
as Pop O'Keefe
★8.5
MOVIE1930
Tol'able David
as Hunter Kinemon
★7.0
MOVIE1933
A Man of Sentiment
as John Russell Sr.
★9.0
MOVIE1934
Beloved
as Maj. Tarrant
★4.4
MOVIE1930
The Sea Bat
as Maddocks
MOVIE1914
The Master Mind
as Richard Allen
★6.5
MOVIE1933
Fighting With Kit Carson
as Matt Fargo
MOVIE1933
The Billion Dollar Scandal
as Mr. Haddock
★4.0
MOVIE1930
Kismet
as Jawan
MOVIE1916
The Lure of Heart's Desire
as Jim Carew
★6.0
MOVIE1924
The Speed Spook
as Chuck Brady
★6.5
MOVIE1933
Above the Clouds
as Crusty
★4.2
MOVIE1931
Chinatown After Dark
as Le Fong
★5.6
MOVIE1934
Come On, Marines!
as General Cabot
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Women Won't Tell
as Attorney for the Defense
★5.4
MOVIE1928
Burning Daylight
as John Dossett
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Torchy's Two Toots
as Hickory Ellins
★5.8
MOVIE1932
Police Court
as Judge Robert Webster
★5.1
MOVIE1932
Cross-Examination
as Dwight Simpson
MOVIE1916
The Weakness of Strength
as Daniel Gaynor
★6.0
MOVIE1932
Alias Mary Smith
as Mr. Hayes
★10.0
MOVIE1922
Sure-Fire Flint
as Johnny Jetts
★4.7
MOVIE1932
The Reckoning
as Doc
★7.0
MOVIE1929
The Hottentot
as Ollie
★4.1
MOVIE1931
Morals for Women
as Mr. Hutson
★9.0
MOVIE1930
The Czar of Broadway
★9.0
MOVIE1931
Young Sinners
as Trent
★7.0
MOVIE1928
On Trial
as Judge
★10.0
MOVIE1932
Drifting Souls
as Brad Martin
★7.0
MOVIE1929
Sonny Boy
as Thorpe
★7.0
MOVIE1928
The Haunted House
as Uncle Herbert
★9.0
MOVIE1930
Rough Waters
as Captain Thomas
★4.9
MOVIE1934
Lost in the Stratosphere
as Col. Brooks
★5.0
MOVIE1921
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
as King Cole
★9.0
MOVIE1922
Beyond the Rainbow
as Insp. Richardson
★8.0
MOVIE1925
The Live Wire
as Sawdust Sam
★8.5
MOVIE1923
Luck
as Alan Crosby
★9.0
MOVIE1932
Torchy Turns the Trick
as Hickory Ellins
★9.0
MOVIE1929
Girl Overboard
as Jim Keefe
★8.0
MOVIE1933
Torchy Turns Turtle
as Mr. Ellins
★4.8
MOVIE1924
The Sixth Commandment
as Col. Saunders
MOVIE1916
The Spell of the Yukon
as Jim Carson
★9.0
MOVIE1928
The Perfect Crime
as Wilmot
★10.0
MOVIE1923
Bright Lights of Broadway
as Reverend Graham Drake
★6.5
MOVIE1930
Top Speed
as Spencer Colgate
★7.0
MOVIE1923
Three O'Clock in the Morning
as Mr. Winthrop
★10.0
MOVIE1932
Torchy's Night Cap
as Hickory Ellins
★6.5
MOVIE1933
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
as Himself
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Torchy Rolls His Own
as Mr. Ellins
★10.0
MOVIE1930
Chiselers of Hollywood
★6.5
MOVIE1926
The Brown Derby
as John J. Caldwell
★5.5
MOVIE1932
The Golden West
as Sam Lynch
★7.0
MOVIE1925
The Early Bird
as The Great La Tour
★7.0
MOVIE1931
Defenders of the Law
as Capt. Bill Houston
★9.0
MOVIE1924
Restless Wives
as Hobart Richards
★10.0
MOVIE1924
Those Who Judge
as Henry Dawson
★6.5
MOVIE1934
Dancing Man
as J.C. Trevor
★8.0
MOVIE1920
Chains of Evidence
as Judge Frank Sturgis
★7.0
MOVIE1919
An Honorable Cad
★7.0
MOVIE1927
Back to Liberty
as Tom Devon
★8.0
MOVIE1924
Damaged Hearts
as Innkeeper
★10.0
MOVIE1929
Fancy Baggage
as John Hardin
MOVIE1915
The Song of the Wage Slave
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Womanhandled
as Uncle Lester
★10.0
MOVIE1926
Stepping Along
as Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Conquest
as William Holden
★8.0
MOVIE1931
The She-Wolf
★10.0
MOVIE1926
The Highbinders
as Mike Harrigan
★10.0
MOVIE1928
The Wright Idea
as Mr. Filbert
★10.0
MOVIE1932
Torchy's Busy Day
as Hickory Ellins
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Torchy Raises the Auntie
as Mr. Ellins