Edmund Breon
Acting
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.
Filmography
At Sword's Point
1952 · Movie
The Thing from Another World
1951 · Movie
Challenge to Lassie
1949 · Movie
Rope of Sand
1949 · Movie
Enchantment
1948 · Movie
Hills of Home
1948 · Movie
Forever Amber
1947 · Movie
The Imperfect Lady
1946 · Movie
Dressed to Kill
1946 · Movie
Devotion
1946 · Movie
Saratoga Trunk
1945 · Movie
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945 · Movie
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944 · Movie
The Woman in the Window
1944 · Movie
Casanova Brown
1944 · Movie
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944 · Movie
The Hour Before the Dawn
1944 · Movie
Gaslight
1944 · Movie
The Lodger
1944 · Movie
It Happened to One Man
1940 · Movie
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939 · Movie
The Outsider
1939 · Movie
Luck of the Navy
1938 · Movie
Almost a Honeymoon
1938 · Movie
Crackerjack
1938 · Movie
Dangerous Medicine
1938 · Movie
A Yank at Oxford
1938 · Movie
Owd Bob
1938 · Movie
Keep Fit
1937 · Movie
Love in Exile
1936 · Movie
The Divine Spark
1935 · Movie
Night Mail
1935 · Movie
She Shall Have Music
1935 · Movie
Mister Cinders
1935 · Movie
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934 · Movie
The Private Life of Don Juan
1934 · Movie
Three Men in a Boat
1933 · Movie
No Funny Business
1933 · Movie
Leap Year
1932 · Movie
Wedding Rehearsal
1932 · Movie
Women Who Play
1932 · Movie
I Like Your Nerve
1931 · Movie
Chances
1931 · Movie
Born to Love
1931 · Movie
Uneasy Virtue
1931 · Movie
The Love Habit
1931 · Movie
On Approval
1930 · Movie
The Dawn Patrol
1930 · Movie
A Little Bit of Fluff
1928 · Movie
L'écuyère
1922 · Movie
Severo Torelli
1914 · Movie
At the Hour of Dawn
1914 · Movie
Le Jocond
1914 · Movie
L'Hôtel de la gare
1914 · Movie
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
1913 · Movie
The Agony of Byzantium
1913 · Movie
Fantômas
1913 · Series
Fantômas
1913 · Movie
A Race for Millions
1912 · Movie
La Cassette de l'émigrée
1912 · Movie
The Fault of Another
1910 · Movie
Monsieur Wants to Get Married
1910 · Movie
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
1910 · Movie
André Chénier
1910 · Movie
The Beggar's Christmas
1910 · Movie
La Bous Bous Mée
1909 · Movie