Cast
Edmund Breon
Acting
Cast
Edmund Breon
Known for
Acting
Born
1882-12-11
From
Hamilton, Scotland, UK
Died
1953-06-24
Also known as Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty, Edmond Breon, Edmond Bréon
Biography
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.
Gaslight
as General Huddleston
The Thing from Another World
as Prof. Ambrose
The Woman in the Window
as Dr. Michael Barkstane
The Lodger
Dressed to Kill
as Julian 'Stinky' Emery
Night Mail
as Lord Ticehurst
On Approval
as Richard Wemys
Forever Amber
as Lord Redmond
Mister Cinders
as Sir George Lancaster
The White Cliffs of Dover
as Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
The Outsider
as Dr. Ladd
Owd Bob
as Lord Meredale
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Colonel Morgan
Devotion
as Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Col. Winterbottom
Saratoga Trunk
as McIntyre (uncredited)
At Sword's Point
as Queen's Chamberlain
The Imperfect Lady
as Lord Chief Justice
Enchantment
as Uncle Bunny
Casanova Brown
as Mr. Drury
No Funny Business
as Edmond Kane
Rope of Sand
as Parker, Chairman of the Board
The Beggar's Christmas
as Le vagabond
Challenge to Lassie
as Magistrate
The Dawn Patrol
as Lieutenant Phipps
Fantômas
as Inspector Juve
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
as Guide (uncredited)
A Yank at Oxford
as Captain Wavertree
Dangerous Medicine
as Totsie Mainwaring
Leap Year
as Jack Debrant
The Man in Half Moon Street
as Sir Humphrey Brandon
Chances
as The General
Crackerjack
as Tony Davenport
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Freddy Merritt
Born to Love
as Tom Kent (uncredited)
Keep Fit
as Sir Augustus Marks
Hills of Home
as Jamie Soutar
The Private Life of Don Juan
as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
The Divine Spark
as Rossini
Wedding Rehearsal
as Lord Fleet
I Like Your Nerve
as Clive Lattimer
L'Hôtel de la gare
Luck of the Navy
as Adm. Maybridge
Le Jocond
André Chénier
as Marie-Joseph Chénier
Women Who Play
as Rachie Wells
Love in Exile
as Baron Zarroy
The Agony of Byzantium
as Isidore
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
Three Men in a Boat
as George
L'écuyère
At the Hour of Dawn
The Fault of Another
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
A Race for Millions
La Bous Bous Mée
as Le gendarme tromboniste
La Cassette de l'émigrée
She Shall Have Music
as Freddie Gates
Almost a Honeymoon
as Aubrey Lovitt
It Happened to One Man
as Adm. Drayton
Uneasy Virtue
as Harvey Townsend
The Love Habit
as Alphonse Duboit
A Little Bit of Fluff
Severo Torelli