Edmund Breon

Edmund Breon

  • Birthday: 1882-12-11
  • Deathday: 1953-06-24
  • Place of birth: Hamilton, Scotland, UK
  • Also know as: Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty

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.

Filmography

The Beggar's Christmas

1910

As Le vagabond

Three Men in a Boat

1933

As George

Fantômas

1913

As Inspector Juve

Uneasy Virtue

1931

As Harvey Townsend

Le jocond

1914

As

Leap Year

1932

As Jack Debrant

The Love Habit

1931

As Alphonse Duboit

The Woman in the Window

1944

As Dr. Michael Barkstane

André Chénier

1911

As Marie-Joseph Chénier

The Agony of Byzantium

1913

As Isidore

Almost a Honeymoon

1938

As Aubrey Lovitt

On Approval

1930

As Richard Wemys

Casanova Brown

1944

As Mr. Drury

Crackerjack

1938

As Tony Davenport

Keep Fit

1937

As Sir Augustus Marks

I Like Your Nerve

1931

As Clive Lattimer

Chances

1931

As The General

Mister Cinders

1934

As Sir George Lancaster

The Divine Spark

1935

As Rossini

Women Who Play

1932

As Rachie Wells

No Funny Business

1933

As Edmond Kane

The Man in Half Moon Street

1945

As Sir Humphrey Brandon

She Shall Have Music

1935

As Freddie Gates

Luck of the Navy

1938

As Adm. Maybridge

It Happened to One Man

1940

As Adm. Drayton

Dressed to Kill

1946

As Julian 'Stinky' Emery

The Hour Before the Dawn

1944

As Freddy Merritt

Hills of Home

1948

As Jamie Soutar

Love in Exile

1936

As Baron Zarroy

Gaslight

1944

As General Huddleston

At Sword's Point

1952

As Queen's Chamberlain

Born to Love

1931

As Tom Kent (uncredited)

The Outsider

1939

As Dr. Ladd

The Dawn Patrol

1930

As Lieutenant Phipps

Rope of Sand

1949

As Parker, Chairman of the Board

Owd Bob

1938

As Lord Meredale

Challenge to Lassie

1949

As Magistrate

Wedding Rehearsal

1932

As Lord Fleet

The Scarlet Pimpernel

1934

As Col. Winterbottom

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1939

As Colonel Morgan

The Imperfect Lady

1946

As Lord Chief Justice

Devotion

1946

As Sir John Thornton (uncredited)

The Thing from Another World

1951

As Prof. Ambrose

Enchantment

1948

As Uncle Bunny

A Yank at Oxford

1938

As Captain Wavertree

Forever Amber

1947

As Lord Redmond

The White Cliffs of Dover

1944

As Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)

The Private Life of Don Juan

1934

As Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go

Saratoga Trunk

1945

As McIntyre (uncredited)

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