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Edmund Breese
Born · June 17, 1871
Died · April 6, 1936 (64 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Bio
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.
Broadway Bill
Presiding Judge
6.1
1934
Lost in the Stratosphere
Col. Brooks
4.7
1934
Treasure Island
Pirate of the Spanish Main
6.5
1934
Return of the Terror
Editor
6.0
1934
Come On, Marines!
General Cabot
5.0
1934
Dancing Man
J.C. Trevor
0.0
1934
Beloved
Maj. Tarrant
0.0
1934
Above the Clouds
Crusty
6.0
1933
Duck Soup
Zander
7.3
1933
Female
Board Member (Uncredited)
6.3
1933
Only Yesterday
Investor (Uncredited)
6.8
1933
A Man of Sentiment
John Russell Sr.
0.0
1933
Trying Out Torchy
Mr. Ellins
0.0
1933
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
Himself
0.0
1933
Laughing at Life
Cabinet Officer
6.0
1933
Fighting With Kit Carson
Matt Fargo
6.0
1933
International House
Doctor Wong
5.3
1933
Torchy Turns Turtle
Mr. Ellins
0.0
1933
On Your Guard
Prison Warden
6.0
1933
Torchy's Kitty Coup
Edward (Hickory) Ellins
0.0
1933
The Billion Dollar Scandal
Mr. Haddock
0.0
1933
The Match King
Olaf Christofsen
6.6
1932
Madame Butterfly
Cho-Cho's Grandfather
5.4
1932
Women Won't Tell
Attorney for the Defense
0.0
1932
The Golden West
Sam Lynch
4.0
1932
Torchy Rolls His Own
Mr. Ellins
0.0
1932
Torchy's Busy Day
Hickory Ellins
0.0
1932
The Cabin in the Cotton
Holmes Scott
6.3
1932
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
Colonel Shelby
0.0
1932
Drifting Souls
Brad Martin
0.0
1932
The Hurricane Express
The Secretary's Father
5.1
1932
Alias Mary Smith
Mr. Hayes
5.0
1932
Torchy's Two Toots
Hickory Ellins
0.0
1932
As You Desire Me
Friar
6.2
1932
Torchy Raises the Auntie
Mr. Ellins
0.0
1932
Young Bride
Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
3.0
1932
Torchy's Night Cap
Hickory Ellins
0.0
1932
Love Bound
J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
4.5
1932
Police Court
Judge Robert Webster
5.0
1932
The Reckoning
Doc
4.4
1932
Cross-Examination
Dwight Simpson
5.1
1932
Torchy Turns the Trick
Hickory Ellins
0.0
1932
The Hatchet Man
Yu Chang
4.9
1932
Mata Hari
Warden
6.2
1931
Torchy Passes the Buck
Mr. Ellins
0.0
1931
Platinum Blonde
Conroy
6.7
1931
Morals for Women
Mr. Hutson
3.7
1931
Chinatown After Dark
Le Fong
3.7
1931
Torchy
Hickory Ellins
0.0
1931
The Public Defender
Frank Wells
6.0
1931
Defenders of the Law
Capt. Bill Houston
6.0
1931
The Good Bad Girl
J.P. Henderson
5.5
1931
Young Sinners
Trent
0.0
1931
The She-Wolf
0.0
1931
Millie
Defense Attorney
5.6
1931
The Painted Desert
Judge Matthews
5.1
1931
Chiselers of Hollywood
0.0
1930
Tol'able David
Hunter Kinemon
7.0
1930
Kismet
Jawan
3.5
1930
Playboy of Paris
General de Karodek
7.0
1930
Bright Lights
Franklin Harris
4.0
1930
Top Speed
Spencer Colgate
6.0
1930
The Sea Bat
Maddocks
4.6
1930
Rough Waters
Captain Thomas
0.0
1930
The Czar of Broadway
0.0
1930
All Quiet on the Western Front
Herr Meyer
7.8
1930
Hold Everything
Pop O'Keefe
6.0
1930
In the Headlines
Eddy
0.0
1929
The Hottentot
Ollie
0.0
1929
Girl Overboard
Jim Keefe
0.0
1929
Sonny Boy
Thorpe
0.0
1929
Fancy Baggage
John Hardin
0.0
1929
Conquest
William Holden
0.0
1928
On Trial
Judge
6.0
1928
The Haunted House
Uncle Herbert
0.0
1928
The Wright Idea
Mr. Filbert
0.0
1928
The Perfect Crime
Wilmot
0.0
1928
Burning Daylight
John Dossett
5.0
1928
Finders Keepers
Hastings
0.0
1928
Back to Liberty
Tom Devon
0.0
1927
Paradise for Two
Uncle Howard
0.0
1927
Stepping Along
Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
0.0
1926
The Brown Derby
John J. Caldwell
6.0
1926
The Highbinders
Mike Harrigan
0.0
1926
Womanhandled
Uncle Lester
7.0
1925
The Live Wire
Sawdust Sam
0.0
1925
The Early Bird
The Great La Tour
0.0
1925
Those Who Judge
Henry Dawson
0.0
1924
The Speed Spook
Chuck Brady
3.0
1924
The Sixth Commandment
Col. Saunders
1.0
1924
Damaged Hearts
Innkeeper
0.0
1924
Restless Wives
Hobart Richards
0.0
1924
Three O'Clock in the Morning
Mr. Winthrop
0.0
1923
Bright Lights of Broadway
Reverend Graham Drake
0.0
1923
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
Edmund MacDonald
0.0
1923
Luck
Alan Crosby
0.0
1923
Sure-Fire Flint
Johnny Jetts
0.0
1922
Beyond the Rainbow
Insp. Richardson
0.0
1922
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
King Cole
3.0
1921
Chains of Evidence
Judge Frank Sturgis
0.0
1920
Someone Must Pay
Charles Bryant
0.0
1919
An Honorable Cad
0.0
1919
The Master Crook
0.0
1918
The Weakness of Strength
Daniel Gaynor
0.0
1916
The Spell of the Yukon
Jim Carson
0.0
1916
The Lure of Heart's Desire
Jim Carew
0.0
1916
The Song of the Wage Slave
0.0
1915