Edmund Breon
Known for: Acting
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
Film
Gaslight
General Huddleston
1944
Film
The Thing from Another World
Prof. Ambrose
1951
L'écuyère
1922
Film
Devotion
Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
1946
Film
Forever Amber
Lord Redmond
1947
Film
Dressed to Kill
Julian 'Stinky' Emery
1946
Film
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Colonel Morgan
1939
Night Mail
Lord Ticehurst
1935
Film
The Woman in the Window
Dr. Michael Barkstane
1944
Film
Owd Bob
Lord Meredale
1938
Film
The Lodger
1944
Film
Casanova Brown
Mr. Drury
1944
Film
At Sword's Point
Queen's Chamberlain
1952
Film
At the Hour of Dawn
1914
André Chénier
Marie-Joseph Chénier
1910
Film
The White Cliffs of Dover
Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
1944
Film
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Col. Winterbottom
1934
Film
Severo Torelli
1914
Film
Enchantment
Uncle Bunny
1948
Film
The Dawn Patrol
Lieutenant Phipps
1930
Film
Challenge to Lassie
Magistrate
1949
Film
Saratoga Trunk
McIntyre (uncredited)
1945
Film
Rope of Sand
Parker, Chairman of the Board
1949
Film
A Yank at Oxford
Captain Wavertree
1938
Film
Fantômas
Inspector Juve
1913
Film
A Little Bit of Fluff
1928
Film
Hills of Home
Jamie Soutar
1948
Film
Born to Love
Tom Kent (uncredited)
1931
Film
The Imperfect Lady
Lord Chief Justice
1946
Film
The Fault of Another
1910
Film
La Cassette de l'émigrée
1912
Film
Chances
The General
1931
Film
Uneasy Virtue
Harvey Townsend
1931
Film
The Agony of Byzantium
Isidore
1913
Film
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Guide (uncredited)
1944
Film
The Private Life of Don Juan
Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
1934
Film
The Outsider
Dr. Ladd
1939
Film
The Hour Before the Dawn
Freddy Merritt
1944
Film
Women Who Play
Rachie Wells
1932
Film
The Man in Half Moon Street
Sir Humphrey Brandon
1945
Film
No Funny Business
Edmond Kane
1933
Leap Year
Jack Debrant
1932
Film
Wedding Rehearsal
Lord Fleet
1932
Film
Mister Cinders
Sir George Lancaster
1935
Film
Keep Fit
Sir Augustus Marks
1937
Film
Crackerjack
Tony Davenport
1938
Film
Three Men in a Boat
George
1933
L'Hôtel de la gare
1914
Film
The Love Habit
Alphonse Duboit
1931
Film
Luck of the Navy
Adm. Maybridge
1938
It Happened to One Man
Adm. Drayton
1940
Le Jocond
1914
Film
Love in Exile
Baron Zarroy
1936
The Beggar's Christmas
Le vagabond
1910
On Approval
Richard Wemys
1930
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
1910
Film
I Like Your Nerve
Clive Lattimer
1931
The Divine Spark
Rossini
1935
Series
Fantômas
Inspector Juve
1913
She Shall Have Music
Freddie Gates
1935
Film
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
1913
Dangerous Medicine
Totsie Mainwaring
1938
Monsieur Wants to Get Married
1910
Film
La Bous Bous Mée
Le gendarme tromboniste
1909
Almost a Honeymoon
Aubrey Lovitt
1938
A Race for Millions
1912