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