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.
★7.5
MOVIE1944
Gaslight
as General Huddleston
★6.7
MOVIE1951
The Thing from Another World
as Prof. Ambrose
★7.0
MOVIE1922
L'écuyère
★5.6
MOVIE1938
Owd Bob
as Lord Meredale
★10.0
MOVIE1935
Night Mail
as Lord Ticehurst
★7.4
MOVIE1944
The Woman in the Window
as Dr. Michael Barkstane
★6.4
MOVIE1944
Casanova Brown
as Mr. Drury
★6.0
MOVIE1947
Forever Amber
as Lord Redmond
★7.4
MOVIE1939
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Colonel Morgan
MOVIE1910
The Fault of Another
★7.0
MOVIE1914
Severo Torelli
★7.0
MOVIE1931
Uneasy Virtue
as Harvey Townsend
★5.8
MOVIE1910
André Chénier
as Marie-Joseph Chénier
★6.6
MOVIE1930
The Dawn Patrol
as Lieutenant Phipps
★5.1
MOVIE1952
At Sword's Point
as Queen's Chamberlain
★6.6
MOVIE1946
Dressed to Kill
as Julian 'Stinky' Emery
★8.0
MOVIE1914
At the Hour of Dawn
★6.7
MOVIE1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
as Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1934
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Col. Winterbottom
★6.5
MOVIE1944
The Lodger
★5.9
MOVIE1946
Devotion
as Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1913
The Agony of Byzantium
as Isidore
★6.7
MOVIE1938
A Yank at Oxford
as Captain Wavertree
★10.0
MOVIE1933
No Funny Business
as Edmond Kane
★7.0
MOVIE1912
La Cassette de l'émigrée
★6.1
MOVIE1945
Saratoga Trunk
as McIntyre (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1914
L'Hôtel de la gare
★6.0
MOVIE1934
The Private Life of Don Juan
as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
★6.9
MOVIE1948
Hills of Home
as Jamie Soutar
★5.5
MOVIE1932
Wedding Rehearsal
as Lord Fleet
★5.8
MOVIE1949
Rope of Sand
as Parker, Chairman of the Board
★10.0
MOVIE1913
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
★5.3
MOVIE1931
Born to Love
as Tom Kent (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1948
Enchantment
as Uncle Bunny
★9.0
MOVIE1928
A Little Bit of Fluff
MOVIE1946
The Imperfect Lady
as Lord Chief Justice
★7.5
MOVIE1944
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
as Guide (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1931
I Like Your Nerve
as Clive Lattimer
★5.9
MOVIE1945
The Man in Half Moon Street
as Sir Humphrey Brandon
★7.4
MOVIE1931
Chances
as The General
★8.0
MOVIE1932
Women Who Play
as Rachie Wells
★5.3
MOVIE1949
Challenge to Lassie
as Magistrate
★6.3
MOVIE1937
Keep Fit
as Sir Augustus Marks
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Luck of the Navy
as Adm. Maybridge
MOVIE1910
The Beggar's Christmas
as Le vagabond
★6.0
MOVIE1939
The Outsider
as Dr. Ladd
★9.0
MOVIE1914
Le Jocond
★6.4
MOVIE1944
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Freddy Merritt
MOVIE1910
Monsieur Wants to Get Married
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Dangerous Medicine
as Totsie Mainwaring
MOVIE1936
Love in Exile
as Baron Zarroy
★7.0
MOVIE1913
Fantômas
as Inspector Juve
★9.0
MOVIE1930
On Approval
as Richard Wemys
★8.0
MOVIE1940
It Happened to One Man
as Adm. Drayton
★9.0
MOVIE1932
Leap Year
as Jack Debrant
★6.1
MOVIE1938
Crackerjack
as Tony Davenport
★7.3
MOVIE1935
She Shall Have Music
as Freddie Gates
★4.5
MOVIE1909
La Bous Bous Mée
as Le gendarme tromboniste
★8.0
MOVIE1931
The Love Habit
as Alphonse Duboit
★7.5
MOVIE1933
Three Men in a Boat
as George
★8.0
MOVIE1935
Mister Cinders
as Sir George Lancaster
★8.0
MOVIE1935
The Divine Spark
as Rossini
MOVIE1910
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
★8.0
MOVIE1912
A Race for Millions
★9.0
MOVIE1938
Almost a Honeymoon
as Aubrey Lovitt