1882-12-11 Hamilton, Scotland, UK
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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At Sword's Point | Queen's Chamberlain | 1952-04-22 |
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The Thing from Another World | Prof. Ambrose | 1951-04-05 |
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Rope of Sand | Parker, Chairman of the Board | 1949-08-03 |
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Challenge to Lassie | Magistrate | 1949-10-31 |
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Hills of Home | Jamie Soutar | 1948-11-25 |
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Enchantment | Uncle Bunny | 1948-12-25 |
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Forever Amber | Lord Redmond | 1947-10-10 |
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Dressed to Kill | Julian 'Stinky' Emery | 1946-05-24 |
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Devotion | Sir John Thornton (uncredited) | 1946-04-05 |
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The Imperfect Lady | Lord Chief Justice | 1946-11-29 |
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The Man in Half Moon Street | Sir Humphrey Brandon | 1945-01-19 |
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Saratoga Trunk | McIntyre (uncredited) | 1945-11-21 |
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay | Guide (uncredited) | 1944-11-02 |
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The Woman in the Window | Dr. Michael Barkstane | 1944-10-25 |
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Gaslight | General Huddleston | 1944-05-04 |
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The Lodger | 1944-01-19 | |
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The Hour Before the Dawn | Freddy Merritt | 1944-05-10 |
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Casanova Brown | Mr. Drury | 1944-08-23 |
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The White Cliffs of Dover | Rupert Bancroft (uncredited) | 1944-05-11 |
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It Happened to One Man | Adm. Drayton | 1940-10-12 |
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The Outsider | Dr. Ladd | 1939-01-30 |
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Colonel Morgan | 1939-07-28 |
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Almost a Honeymoon | Aubrey Lovitt | 1938-11-14 |
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Owd Bob | Lord Meredale | 1938-01-26 |
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Crackerjack | Tony Davenport | 1938-10-01 |
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Dangerous Medicine | Totsie Mainwaring | 1938-07-23 |
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A Yank at Oxford | Captain Wavertree | 1938-02-18 |
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Luck of the Navy | Adm. Maybridge | 1938-11-27 |
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Keep Fit | Sir Augustus Marks | 1937-07-31 |
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Love in Exile | Baron Zarroy | 1936-12-09 |
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She Shall Have Music | Freddie Gates | 1935-04-14 |
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The Divine Spark | Rossini | 1935-06-01 |
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Mister Cinders | Sir George Lancaster | 1935-01-12 |
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Night Mail | Lord Ticehurst | 1935-05-01 |
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The Private Life of Don Juan | Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go | 1934-01-01 |
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The Scarlet Pimpernel | Col. Winterbottom | 1934-12-20 |
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Three Men in a Boat | George | 1933-04-30 |
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No Funny Business | Edmond Kane | 1933-03-30 |
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Women Who Play | Rachie Wells | 1932-03-01 |
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Leap Year | Jack Debrant | 1932-10-11 |
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Wedding Rehearsal | Lord Fleet | 1932-10-01 |
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Chances | The General | 1931-07-18 |
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Born to Love | Tom Kent (uncredited) | 1931-04-17 |
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The Love Habit | Alphonse Duboit | 1931-01-16 |
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Uneasy Virtue | Harvey Townsend | 1931-02-05 |
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I Like Your Nerve | Clive Lattimer | 1931-09-12 |
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The Dawn Patrol | Lieutenant Phipps | 1930-07-10 |
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On Approval | Richard Wemys | 1930-08-26 |
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A Little Bit of Fluff | 1928-07-28 | |
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L'écuyère | 1922-09-15 | |
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Severo Torelli | 1914-05-15 | |
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Le jocond | 1914-03-13 | |
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Pâques rouges | 1914-04-04 | |
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L'hôtel de la gare | 1914-02-10 | |
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Bout-de-Zan et le lion | 1913-11-01 | |
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L'agonie de Byzance | Isidore | 1913-10-24 |
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Fantômas | Inspector Juve | 1913-05-09 |
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La Course aux millions | 1912-12-13 | |
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La cassette de l'émigrée | 1912-05-01 | |
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André Chénier | Marie-Joseph Chénier | 1910-02-06 |
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Lysistrata ou La grève des baisers | 1910-02-27 | |
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La faute d'une autre | 1910-12-02 | |
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Le Noël du vagabond | Le vagabond | 1910-01-01 |
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Monsieur veut se marier | 1910-10-07 |
