
Edmund Breon
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1882-12-11
Day of Death
1953-06-24 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Hamilton, Scotland, UK
Edmund Breon
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.
Known For
Acting
(1952)
At Sword's Point
as Queen's Chamberlain
(1951)
The Thing from Another World
as Prof. Ambrose
(1949)
Rope of Sand
as Parker, Chairman of the Board
(1949)
Challenge to Lassie
as Magistrate
(1948)
Enchantment
as Uncle Bunny
(1948)
Hills of Home
as Jamie Soutar
(1947)
Forever Amber
as Lord Redmond
(1946)
Dressed to Kill
as Julian 'Stinky' Emery
(1946)
Devotion
as Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
(1946)
The Imperfect Lady
as Lord Chief Justice
(1945)
Saratoga Trunk
as McIntyre (uncredited)
(1945)
The Man in Half Moon Street
as Sir Humphrey Brandon
(1944)
Gaslight
as General Huddleston
(1944)
The Woman in the Window
as Dr. Michael Barkstane
(1944)
(1944)
The White Cliffs of Dover
as Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
(1944)
Casanova Brown
as Mr. Drury
(1944)
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
as Guide (uncredited)
(1944)
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Freddy Merritt
(1940)
It Happened to One Man
as Adm. Drayton
(1939)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Colonel Morgan
(1939)
The Outsider
as Dr. Ladd
(1938)
A Yank at Oxford
as Captain Wavertree
(1938)
Luck of the Navy
as Adm. Maybridge
(1938)
Crackerjack
as Tony Davenport
(1938)
Owd Bob
as Lord Meredale
(1938)
Dangerous Medicine
as Totsie Mainwaring
(1938)
Almost a Honeymoon
as Aubrey Lovitt
(1937)
Keep Fit
as Sir Augustus Marks
(1936)
Love in Exile
as Baron Zarroy
(1935)
Night Mail
as Lord Ticehurst
(1935)
The Divine Spark
as Rossini
(1935)
She Shall Have Music
as Freddie Gates
(1934)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Col. Winterbottom
(1934)
The Private Life of Don Juan
as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
(1934)
Mister Cinders
as Sir George Lancaster
(1933)
No Funny Business
as Edmond Kane
(1933)
Three Men in a Boat
as George
(1932)
Wedding Rehearsal
as Lord Fleet
(1932)
Leap Year
as Jack Debrant
(1932)
Women Who Play
as Rachie Wells
(1931)
I Like Your Nerve
as Clive Lattimer
(1931)
Born to Love
as Tom Kent (uncredited)
(1931)
Chances
as The General
(1931)
Uneasy Virtue
as Harvey Townsend
(1931)
The Love Habit
as Alphonse Duboit
(1930)
The Dawn Patrol
as Lieutenant Phipps
(1930)
On Approval
as Richard Wemys
(1928)
(1922)
(1914)
(1914)
(1914)
(1914)
(1913)
Fantômas
as Inspector Juve
(1913)
The Agony of Byzantium
as Isidore
(1913)
(1912)
(1912)
(1910)
(1910)
André Chénier
as Marie-Joseph Chénier
(1910)
The Beggar's Christmas
as Le vagabond
(1910)
(1910)