
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)
Hills of Home
as Jamie Soutar
(1948)
Enchantment
as Uncle Bunny
(1947)
Forever Amber
as Lord Redmond
(1946)
The Imperfect Lady
as Lord Chief Justice
(1946)
Devotion
as Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
(1946)
Dressed to Kill
as Julian 'Stinky' Emery
(1945)
The Man in Half Moon Street
as Sir Humphrey Brandon
(1945)
Saratoga Trunk
as McIntyre (uncredited)
(1944)
The White Cliffs of Dover
as Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
(1944)
The Woman in the Window
as Dr. Michael Barkstane
(1944)
Gaslight
as General Huddleston
(1944)
(1944)
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Freddy Merritt
(1944)
Casanova Brown
as Mr. Drury
(1944)
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
as Guide (uncredited)
(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)
Almost a Honeymoon
as Aubrey Lovitt
(1938)
Dangerous Medicine
as Totsie Mainwaring
(1937)
Keep Fit
as Sir Augustus Marks
(1936)
Love in Exile
as Baron Zarroy
(1935)
Mister Cinders
as Sir George Lancaster
(1935)
Night Mail
as Lord Ticehurst
(1935)
She Shall Have Music
as Freddie Gates
(1935)
The Divine Spark
as Rossini
(1934)
The Private Life of Don Juan
as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
(1934)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Col. Winterbottom
(1933)
Three Men in a Boat
as George
(1933)
No Funny Business
as Edmond Kane
(1932)
Leap Year
as Jack Debrant
(1932)
Wedding Rehearsal
as Lord Fleet
(1932)
Women Who Play
as Rachie Wells
(1931)
Born to Love
as Tom Kent (uncredited)
(1931)
The Love Habit
as Alphonse Duboit
(1931)
I Like Your Nerve
as Clive Lattimer
(1931)
Chances
as The General
(1931)
Uneasy Virtue
as Harvey Townsend
(1930)
On Approval
as Richard Wemys
(1930)
The Dawn Patrol
as Lieutenant Phipps
(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)
(1910)
(1910)
The Beggar's Christmas
as Le vagabond