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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Challenge to Lassie | Magistrate | 1949-10-31 |
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Rope of Sand | Parker, Chairman of the Board | 1949-08-03 |
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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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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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Dressed to Kill | Julian 'Stinky' Emery | 1946-05-24 |
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Saratoga Trunk | McIntyre (uncredited) | 1945-11-21 |
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The Man in Half Moon Street | Sir Humphrey Brandon | 1945-01-19 |
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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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The Woman in the Window | Dr. Michael Barkstane | 1944-10-25 |
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The White Cliffs of Dover | Rupert Bancroft (uncredited) | 1944-05-11 |
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay | Guide (uncredited) | 1944-11-02 |
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Casanova Brown | Mr. Drury | 1944-08-23 |
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Gaslight | General Huddleston | 1944-05-04 |
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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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Luck of the Navy | Adm. Maybridge | 1938-11-27 |
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Dangerous Medicine | Totsie Mainwaring | 1938-07-23 |
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Almost a Honeymoon | Aubrey Lovitt | 1938-11-14 |
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A Yank at Oxford | Captain Wavertree | 1938-02-18 |
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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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Keep Fit | Sir Augustus Marks | 1937-07-31 |
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Love in Exile | Baron Zarroy | 1936-12-09 |
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Night Mail | Lord Ticehurst | 1935-05-01 |
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The Divine Spark | Rossini | 1935-06-01 |
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She Shall Have Music | Freddie Gates | 1935-04-14 |
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Mister Cinders | Sir George Lancaster | 1935-01-12 |
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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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Wedding Rehearsal | Lord Fleet | 1932-10-01 |
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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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Uneasy Virtue | Harvey Townsend | 1931-02-05 |
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Chances | The General | 1931-07-18 |
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The Love Habit | Alphonse Duboit | 1931-01-16 |
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Born to Love | Tom Kent (uncredited) | 1931-04-17 |
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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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Pâques rouges | 1914-04-04 | |
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Le Jocond | 1914-03-13 | |
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Severo Torelli | 1914-05-15 | |
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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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Fantômas II: Juve contre Fantômas | Inspector Juve | 1913-09-12 |
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Fantômas | Inspector Juve | 1913-05-09 |
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L'Agonie de Byzance | Isidore | 1913-10-24 |
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Fantômas III: Le mort qui tue | Inspector Juve | 1913-11-28 |
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Fantômas I: À l'ombre de la guillotine | Inspector Juve | 1913-03-12 |
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La Cassette de l'émigrée | 1912-05-01 | |
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La Course aux millions | 1912-12-13 | |
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Le Noël du vagabond | Le vagabond | 1910-01-01 |
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André Chénier | Marie-Joseph Chénier | 1910-02-06 |
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Monsieur veut se marier | 1910-10-07 | |
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La Faute d'une autre | 1910-12-02 | |
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Lysistrata ou La grève des baisers | 1910-02-27 | |
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La Bous Bous Mée | Le gendarme tromboniste | 1909-05-17 |
