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)
Return of the Terror
as Editor
(1934)
Lost in the Stratosphere
as Col. Brooks
(1934)
Beloved
as Maj. Tarrant
(1934)
Come On, Marines!
as General Cabot
(1934)
Dancing Man
as J.C. Trevor
(1933)
Duck Soup
as Zander
(1933)
Female
as Board Member (Uncredited)
(1933)
Only Yesterday
as Investor (Uncredited)
(1933)
International House
as Doctor Wong
(1933)
Laughing at Life
as Cabinet Officer
(1933)
The Billion Dollar Scandal
as Mr. Haddock
(1933)
Fighting With Kit Carson
as Matt Fargo
(1933)
A Man of Sentiment
as John Russell Sr.
(1933)
Above the Clouds
as Crusty
(1933)
Torchy's Kitty Coup
as Edward (Hickory) Ellins
(1933)
On Your Guard
as Prison Warden
(1933)
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
as Himself
(1933)
Trying Out Torchy
as Mr. Ellins
(1933)
Torchy Turns Turtle
as Mr. Ellins
(1932)
Love Bound
as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
(1932)
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho's Grandfather
(1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton
as Holmes Scott
(1932)
Alias Mary Smith
as Mr. Hayes
(1932)
As You Desire Me
as Friar
(1932)
The Hurricane Express
as The Secretary's Father
(1932)
Cross-Examination
as Dwight Simpson
(1932)
Young Bride
as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
(1932)
The Match King
as Olaf Christofsen
(1932)
The Hatchet Man
as Yu Chang
(1932)
Drifting Souls
as Brad Martin
(1932)
The Reckoning
as Doc
(1932)
Police Court
as Judge Robert Webster
(1932)
The Golden West
as Sam Lynch
(1932)
Women Won't Tell
as Attorney for the Defense
(1932)
Torchy Turns the Trick
as Hickory Ellins
(1932)
Torchy Rolls His Own
as Mr. 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
(1932)
Torchy's Busy Day
as Hickory Ellins
(1931)
Millie
as Defense Attorney
(1931)
Mata Hari
as Warden
(1931)
Platinum Blonde
as Conroy
(1931)
The Painted Desert
as Judge Matthews
(1931)
Chinatown After Dark
as Le Fong
(1931)
Defenders of the Law
as Capt. Bill Houston
(1931)
Young Sinners
as Trent
(1931)
The Public Defender
as Frank Wells
(1931)
Torchy
as Hickory Ellins
(1931)
Morals for Women
as Mr. Hutson
(1931)
The Good Bad Girl
as J.P. Henderson
(1931)
(1931)
Torchy Passes the Buck
as Mr. Ellins
(1930)
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Herr Meyer
(1930)
Kismet
as Jawan
(1930)
The Sea Bat
as Maddocks
(1930)
Tol'able David
as Hunter Kinemon
(1930)
(1930)
Bright Lights
as Franklin Harris
(1930)
Playboy of Paris
as General de Karodek
(1930)
Top Speed
as Spencer Colgate
(1930)
Hold Everything
as Pop O'Keefe
(1930)
(1930)
Rough Waters
as Captain Thomas
(1929)
Fancy Baggage
as John Hardin
(1929)
The Hottentot
as Ollie
(1929)
Sonny Boy
as Thorpe
(1929)
Girl Overboard
as Jim Keefe
(1929)
In the Headlines
as Eddy
(1928)
On Trial
as Judge
(1928)
Burning Daylight
as John Dossett
(1928)
Finders Keepers
as Hastings
(1928)
Conquest
as William Holden
(1928)
The Haunted House
as Uncle Herbert
(1928)
The Wright Idea
as Mr. Filbert
(1928)
The Perfect Crime
as Wilmot
(1927)
Paradise for Two
as Uncle Howard
(1927)
Back to Liberty
as Tom Devon
(1926)
The Highbinders
as Mike Harrigan
(1926)
Stepping Along
as Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
(1926)
The Brown Derby
as John J. Caldwell
(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)
Damaged Hearts
as Innkeeper
(1924)
The Sixth Commandment
as Col. Saunders
(1924)
The Speed Spook
as Chuck Brady
(1924)
Those Who Judge
as Henry Dawson
(1923)
Luck
as Alan Crosby
(1923)
Three O'Clock in the Morning
as Mr. Winthrop
(1923)
Bright Lights of Broadway
as Reverend Graham Drake
(1923)
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
as Edmund MacDonald
(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)
Crew
(1921)
A Man's Home
Theatre Play