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)
Treasure Island
as Pirate of the Spanish Main
(1934)
Broadway Bill
as Presiding Judge
(1934)
Come On, Marines!
as General Cabot
(1934)
Lost in the Stratosphere
as Col. Brooks
(1934)
Beloved
as Maj. Tarrant
(1934)
Return of the Terror
as Editor
(1934)
Dancing Man
as J.C. Trevor
(1933)
Duck Soup
as Zander
(1933)
Only Yesterday
as Investor (Uncredited)
(1933)
International House
as Doctor Wong
(1933)
Female
as Board Member (Uncredited)
(1933)
A Man of Sentiment
as John Russell Sr.
(1933)
On Your Guard
as Prison Warden
(1933)
Laughing at Life
as Cabinet Officer
(1933)
Fighting With Kit Carson
as Matt Fargo
(1933)
Above the Clouds
as Crusty
(1933)
Torchy's Kitty Coup
as Edward (Hickory) Ellins
(1933)
Trying Out Torchy
as Mr. Ellins
(1933)
The Billion Dollar Scandal
as Mr. Haddock
(1933)
Torchy Turns Turtle
as Mr. Ellins
(1933)
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
as Himself
(1932)
The Match King
as Olaf Christofsen
(1932)
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho's Grandfather
(1932)
The Hurricane Express
as The Secretary's Father
(1932)
As You Desire Me
as Friar
(1932)
The Hatchet Man
as Yu Chang
(1932)
Police Court
as Judge Robert Webster
(1932)
The Golden West
as Sam Lynch
(1932)
Alias Mary Smith
as Mr. Hayes
(1932)
Cross-Examination
as Dwight Simpson
(1932)
The Reckoning
as Doc
(1932)
Torchy Rolls His Own
as Mr. Ellins
(1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton
as Holmes Scott
(1932)
Torchy Turns the Trick
as Hickory Ellins
(1932)
Drifting Souls
as Brad Martin
(1932)
Torchy Raises the Auntie
as Mr. Ellins
(1932)
Women Won't Tell
as Attorney for the Defense
(1932)
Love Bound
as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
(1932)
Torchy's Busy Day
as Hickory Ellins
(1932)
Young Bride
as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
(1932)
Torchy's Night Cap
as Hickory Ellins
(1932)
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
as Colonel Shelby
(1932)
Torchy's Two Toots
as Hickory Ellins
(1931)
The Painted Desert
as Judge Matthews
(1931)
Mata Hari
as Warden
(1931)
Millie
as Defense Attorney
(1931)
Platinum Blonde
as Conroy
(1931)
The Public Defender
as Frank Wells
(1931)
Chinatown After Dark
as Le Fong
(1931)
The Good Bad Girl
as J.P. Henderson
(1931)
Defenders of the Law
as Capt. Bill Houston
(1931)
(1931)
Morals for Women
as Mr. Hutson
(1931)
Young Sinners
as Trent
(1931)
Torchy Passes the Buck
as Mr. Ellins
(1931)
Torchy
as Hickory Ellins
(1930)
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Herr Meyer
(1930)
Playboy of Paris
as General de Karodek
(1930)
The Sea Bat
as Maddocks
(1930)
(1930)
Hold Everything
as Pop O'Keefe
(1930)
Rough Waters
as Captain Thomas
(1930)
Tol'able David
as Hunter Kinemon
(1930)
Kismet
as Jawan
(1930)
Top Speed
as Spencer Colgate
(1930)
Bright Lights
as Franklin Harris
(1930)
(1929)
Girl Overboard
as Jim Keefe
(1929)
The Hottentot
as Ollie
(1929)
Sonny Boy
as Thorpe
(1929)
Fancy Baggage
as John Hardin
(1929)
In the Headlines
as Eddy
(1928)
Conquest
as William Holden
(1928)
Finders Keepers
as Hastings
(1928)
Burning Daylight
as John Dossett
(1928)
On Trial
as Judge
(1928)
The Perfect Crime
as Wilmot
(1928)
The Wright Idea
as Mr. Filbert
(1928)
The Haunted House
as Uncle Herbert
(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 Live Wire
as Sawdust Sam
(1925)
The Early Bird
as The Great La Tour
(1924)
The Speed Spook
as Chuck Brady
(1924)
Restless Wives
as Hobart Richards
(1924)
The Sixth Commandment
as Col. Saunders
(1924)
Damaged Hearts
as Innkeeper
(1924)
Those Who Judge
as Henry Dawson
(1923)
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
as Edmund MacDonald
(1923)
Luck
as Alan Crosby
(1923)
Three O'Clock in the Morning
as Mr. Winthrop
(1923)
Bright Lights of Broadway
as Reverend Graham Drake
(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 Weakness of Strength
as Daniel Gaynor
(1916)
The Spell of the Yukon
as Jim Carson
(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