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.
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)
Return of the Terror
as Editor
(1934)
Beloved
as Maj. Tarrant
(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)
The Billion Dollar Scandal
as Mr. Haddock
(1933)
Fighting With Kit Carson
as Matt Fargo
(1933)
Laughing at Life
as Cabinet Officer
(1933)
Above the Clouds
as Crusty
(1933)
A Man of Sentiment
as John Russell Sr.
(1933)
On Your Guard
as Prison Warden
(1933)
Torchy Turns Turtle
as Mr. Ellins
(1933)
Torchy's Kitty Coup
as Edward (Hickory) Ellins
(1933)
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
as Himself
(1933)
Trying Out Torchy
as Mr. Ellins
(1932)
Love Bound
as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
(1932)
The Hurricane Express
as The Secretary's Father
(1932)
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho's Grandfather
(1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton
as Holmes Scott
(1932)
As You Desire Me
as Friar
(1932)
Young Bride
as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
(1932)
The Match King
as Olaf Christofsen
(1932)
Cross-Examination
as Dwight Simpson
(1932)
Women Won't Tell
as Attorney for the Defense
(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)
Drifting Souls
as Brad Martin
(1932)
The Reckoning
as Doc
(1932)
Torchy Rolls His Own
as Mr. Ellins
(1932)
Torchy Turns the Trick
as Hickory Ellins
(1932)
Torchy's Busy Day
as Hickory Ellins
(1932)
Torchy Raises the Auntie
as Mr. Ellins
(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)
Millie
as Defense Attorney
(1931)
Mata Hari
as Warden
(1931)
Platinum Blonde
as Conroy
(1931)
The Public Defender
as Frank Wells
(1931)
The Good Bad Girl
as J.P. Henderson
(1931)
Morals for Women
as Mr. Hutson
(1931)
Chinatown After Dark
as Le Fong
(1931)
(1931)
Young Sinners
as Trent
(1931)
Defenders of the Law
as Capt. Bill Houston
(1931)
Torchy Passes the Buck
as Mr. Ellins
(1931)
Torchy
as Hickory Ellins
(1930)
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Herr Meyer
(1930)
Tol'able David
as Hunter Kinemon
(1930)
(1930)
Playboy of Paris
as General de Karodek
(1930)
Kismet
as Jawan
(1930)
Bright Lights
as Franklin Harris
(1930)
The Sea Bat
as Maddocks
(1930)
Top Speed
as Spencer Colgate
(1930)
Hold Everything
as Pop O'Keefe
(1930)
Rough Waters
as Captain Thomas
(1930)
(1929)
Sonny Boy
as Thorpe
(1929)
The Hottentot
as Ollie
(1929)
Fancy Baggage
as John Hardin
(1929)
Girl Overboard
as Jim Keefe
(1929)
In the Headlines
as Eddy
(1928)
On Trial
as Judge
(1928)
Finders Keepers
as Hastings
(1928)
Burning Daylight
as John Dossett
(1928)
Conquest
as William Holden
(1928)
The Perfect Crime
as Wilmot
(1928)
The Haunted House
as Uncle Herbert
(1928)
The Wright Idea
as Mr. Filbert
(1927)
Paradise for Two
as Uncle Howard
(1927)
Back to Liberty
as Tom Devon
(1926)
The Brown Derby
as John J. Caldwell
(1926)
Stepping Along
as Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
(1926)
The Highbinders
as Mike Harrigan
(1925)
Womanhandled
as Uncle Lester
(1925)
The Live Wire
as Sawdust Sam
(1925)
The Early Bird
as The Great La Tour
(1924)
Restless Wives
as Hobart Richards
(1924)
The Sixth Commandment
as Col. Saunders
(1924)
Damaged Hearts
as Innkeeper
(1924)
The Speed Spook
as Chuck Brady
(1924)
Those Who Judge
as Henry Dawson
(1923)
Three O'Clock in the Morning
as Mr. Winthrop
(1923)
Luck
as Alan Crosby
(1923)
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
as Edmund MacDonald
(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)
(1919)
Someone Must Pay
as Charles Bryant
(1918)
(1916)
The Weakness of Strength
as Daniel Gaynor
(1916)
The Lure of Heart's Desire
as Jim Carew
(1916)
The Spell of the Yukon
as Jim Carson
(1915)
Crew
(1921)
A Man's Home
Theatre Play