Edmund Breon
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.
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Movies (67)
At Sword's Point
1952 · Queen's Chamberlain
The Thing from Another World
1951 · Prof. Ambrose
Challenge to Lassie
1949 · Magistrate
Rope of Sand
1949 · Parker, Chairman of the Board
Enchantment
1948 · Uncle Bunny
Hills of Home
1948 · Jamie Soutar
Forever Amber
1947 · Lord Redmond
The Imperfect Lady
1946 · Lord Chief Justice
Dressed to Kill
1946 · Julian 'Stinky' Emery
Devotion
1946 · Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
Saratoga Trunk
1945 · McIntyre (uncredited)
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945 · Sir Humphrey Brandon
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944 · Guide (uncredited)
The Woman in the Window
1944 · Dr. Michael Barkstane
Casanova Brown
1944 · Mr. Drury
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944 · Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
The Hour Before the Dawn
1944 · Freddy Merritt
Gaslight
1944 · General Huddleston
The Lodger
1944
It Happened to One Man
1940 · Adm. Drayton
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939 · Colonel Morgan
The Outsider
1939 · Dr. Ladd
Luck of the Navy
1938 · Adm. Maybridge
Almost a Honeymoon
1938 · Aubrey Lovitt
Crackerjack
1938 · Tony Davenport
Dangerous Medicine
1938 · Totsie Mainwaring
A Yank at Oxford
1938 · Captain Wavertree
Owd Bob
1938 · Lord Meredale
Keep Fit
1937 · Sir Augustus Marks
Love in Exile
1936 · Baron Zarroy
The Divine Spark
1935 · Rossini
Night Mail
1935 · Lord Ticehurst
She Shall Have Music
1935 · Freddie Gates
Mister Cinders
1935 · Sir George Lancaster
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934 · Col. Winterbottom
The Private Life of Don Juan
1934 · Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
Three Men in a Boat
1933 · George
No Funny Business
1933 · Edmond Kane
Leap Year
1932 · Jack Debrant
Wedding Rehearsal
1932 · Lord Fleet
Women Who Play
1932 · Rachie Wells
I Like Your Nerve
1931 · Clive Lattimer
Chances
1931 · The General
Born to Love
1931 · Tom Kent (uncredited)
Uneasy Virtue
1931 · Harvey Townsend
The Love Habit
1931 · Alphonse Duboit
On Approval
1930 · Richard Wemys
The Dawn Patrol
1930 · Lieutenant Phipps
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
1913 · Isidore
Les Cerises de Bout-de-Zan
1913 · le père
Bout-de-Zan fait les commissions
1913 · le père
Fantômas
1913 · Inspector Juve
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
1910 · Marie-Joseph Chénier
The Beggar's Christmas
1910 · Le vagabond
La Bous Bous Mée
1909 · Le gendarme tromboniste
