Edmund Breese
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1871-06-17
Day of Death
1936-04-06 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Edmund Breese
Biography
From Wikipedia
Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo (1893), The Lion and the Mouse (1906) with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree (1909) with Helen Ware, The Master Mind (1913) with Elliott Dexter, the popular World War I era play Why Marry? (1917) with Estelle Winwood & Nat C. Goodwin and So This Is London (1922) with Donald Gallaher. He appeared in 129 films between 1914 and 1935. He is best remembered as the advice-giving German businessman at the beginning of the war film All Quiet on the Western Front.
His final role was on stage in Night of January 16th from September 1935 to April 1936. Just before the play ended its run, Breese developed peritonitis, which he died from on April 6, 1936.
Known For
Acting
(1934)
Broadway Bill
as Presiding Judge
(1934)
Beloved
as Maj. Tarrant
(1934)
Dancing Man
as J.C. Trevor
(1934)
Come On, Marines!
as General Cabot
(1934)
Treasure Island
as Pirate of the Spanish Main
(1934)
Return of the Terror
as Editor
(1934)
Lost in the Stratosphere
as Col. Brooks
(1933)
Torchy Turns Turtle
as Mr. Ellins
(1933)
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
as Himself
(1933)
A Man of Sentiment
as John Russell Sr.
(1933)
Fighting With Kit Carson
as Matt Fargo
(1933)
Duck Soup
as Zander
(1933)
Female
as Board Member (Uncredited)
(1933)
The Billion Dollar Scandal
as Mr. Haddock
(1933)
Torchy's Kitty Coup
as Edward (Hickory) Ellins
(1933)
Only Yesterday
as Investor (Uncredited)
(1933)
Trying Out Torchy
as Mr. Ellins
(1933)
International House
as Doctor Wong
(1933)
Above the Clouds
as Crusty
(1933)
On Your Guard
as Prison Warden
(1933)
Laughing at Life
as Cabinet Officer
(1932)
The Hurricane Express
as The Secretary's Father
(1932)
Police Court
as Judge Robert Webster
(1932)
The Hatchet Man
as Yu Chang
(1932)
Alias Mary Smith
as Mr. Hayes
(1932)
The Golden West
as Sam Lynch
(1932)
The Reckoning
as Doc
(1932)
Torchy's Busy Day
as Hickory Ellins
(1932)
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho's Grandfather
(1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton
as Holmes Scott
(1932)
Cross-Examination
as Dwight Simpson
(1932)
Torchy's Two Toots
as Hickory Ellins
(1932)
Torchy Raises the Auntie
as Mr. Ellins
(1932)
Torchy Turns the Trick
as Hickory Ellins
(1932)
Love Bound
as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
(1932)
Young Bride
as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
(1932)
The Match King
as Olaf Christofsen
(1932)
As You Desire Me
as Friar
(1932)
Women Won't Tell
as Attorney for the Defense
(1932)
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
as Colonel Shelby
(1932)
Drifting Souls
as Brad Martin
(1932)
Torchy's Night Cap
as Hickory Ellins
(1932)
Torchy Rolls His Own
as Mr. Ellins
(1931)
The Painted Desert
as Judge Matthews
(1931)
Morals for Women
as Mr. Hutson
(1931)
Millie
as Defense Attorney
(1931)
Young Sinners
as Trent
(1931)
Mata Hari
as Warden
(1931)
The Public Defender
as Frank Wells
(1931)
The Good Bad Girl
as J.P. Henderson
(1931)
Platinum Blonde
as Conroy
(1931)
Defenders of the Law
as Capt. Bill Houston
(1931)
Torchy
as Hickory Ellins
(1931)
Torchy Passes the Buck
as Mr. Ellins
(1931)
(1931)
Chinatown After Dark
as Le Fong
(1930)
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Herr Meyer
(1930)
(1930)
Top Speed
as Spencer Colgate
(1930)
The Sea Bat
as Maddocks
(1930)
Kismet
as Jawan
(1930)
Tol'able David
as Hunter Kinemon
(1930)
Playboy of Paris
as General de Karodek
(1930)
Bright Lights
as Franklin Harris
(1930)
Rough Waters
as Captain Thomas
(1930)
Hold Everything
as Pop O'Keefe
(1930)
(1929)
Sonny Boy
as Thorpe
(1929)
Girl Overboard
as Jim Keefe
(1929)
Fancy Baggage
as John Hardin
(1929)
In the Headlines
as Eddy
(1929)
The Hottentot
as Ollie
(1928)
The Perfect Crime
as Wilmot
(1928)
The Haunted House
as Uncle Herbert
(1928)
Finders Keepers
as Hastings
(1928)
Conquest
as William Holden
(1928)
Burning Daylight
as John Dossett
(1928)
On Trial
as Judge
(1928)
The Wright Idea
as Mr. Filbert
(1927)
Back to Liberty
as Tom Devon
(1927)
Paradise for Two
as Uncle Howard
(1926)
The Highbinders
as Mike Harrigan
(1926)
The Brown Derby
as John J. Caldwell
(1926)
Stepping Along
as Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
(1925)
Womanhandled
as Uncle Lester
(1925)
The Early Bird
as The Great La Tour
(1925)
The Live Wire
as Sawdust Sam
(1924)
Restless Wives
as Hobart Richards
(1924)
The Speed Spook
as Chuck Brady
(1924)
The Sixth Commandment
as Col. Saunders
(1924)
Those Who Judge
as Henry Dawson
(1924)
Damaged Hearts
as Innkeeper
(1923)
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
as Edmund MacDonald
(1923)
Luck
as Alan Crosby
(1923)
Bright Lights of Broadway
as Reverend Graham Drake
(1923)
Three O'Clock in the Morning
as Mr. Winthrop
(1922)
Beyond the Rainbow
as Insp. Richardson
(1922)
Sure-Fire Flint
as Johnny Jetts
(1921)
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
as King Cole
(1920)
Chains of Evidence
as Judge Frank Sturgis
(1919)
Someone Must Pay
as Charles Bryant
(1919)
(1918)
(1916)
The Spell of the Yukon
as Jim Carson
(1916)
The Weakness of Strength
as Daniel Gaynor
(1916)
The Lure of Heart's Desire
as Jim Carew
(1915)
(1914)
The Master Mind
as Richard Allen
Crew
(1921)
A Man's Home
Theatre Play