Edmund Breon
Known for Acting · 65 credits
- Born
- 1882-12-11
- Died
- 1953-06-24
- Place of birth
- Hamilton, Scotland, UK
- Also known as
- Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty · Edmond Breon · Edmond Bréon
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."
Known For
Movies (65)
Gaslight
1944
as General Huddleston
Fantômas
1913
as Inspector Juve
The Thing from Another World
1951
as Prof. Ambrose
The Woman in the Window
1944
as Dr. Michael Barkstane
Dressed to Kill
1946
as Julian 'Stinky' Emery
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939
as Colonel Morgan
Forever Amber
1947
as Lord Redmond
The Lodger
1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944
as Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
as Col. Winterbottom
Enchantment
1948
as Uncle Bunny
Devotion
1946
as Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
Saratoga Trunk
1945
as McIntyre (uncredited)
Rope of Sand
1949
as Parker, Chairman of the Board
Wedding Rehearsal
1932
as Lord Fleet
At Sword's Point
1952
as Queen's Chamberlain
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944
as Guide (uncredited)
Casanova Brown
1944
as Mr. Drury
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945
as Sir Humphrey Brandon
A Yank at Oxford
1938
as Captain Wavertree
The Hour Before the Dawn
1944
as Freddy Merritt
The Imperfect Lady
1946
as Lord Chief Justice
Challenge to Lassie
1949
as Magistrate
The Outsider
1939
as Dr. Ladd
The Dawn Patrol
1930
as Lieutenant Phipps
I Like Your Nerve
1931
as Clive Lattimer
Born to Love
1931
as Tom Kent (uncredited)
La Bous Bous Mée
1909
as Le gendarme tromboniste
Luck of the Navy
1938
as Adm. Maybridge
Hills of Home
1948
as Jamie Soutar
Night Mail
1935
as Lord Ticehurst
The Private Life of Don Juan
1934
as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
Chances
1931
as The General
Crackerjack
1938
as Tony Davenport
Keep Fit
1937
as Sir Augustus Marks
André Chénier
1910
as Marie-Joseph Chénier
The Divine Spark
1935
as Rossini
Owd Bob
1938
as Lord Meredale
Mister Cinders
1935
as Sir George Lancaster
The Beggar's Christmas
1910
as Le vagabond
On Approval
1930
as Richard Wemys
Women Who Play
1932
as Rachie Wells
Leap Year
1932
as Jack Debrant
Dangerous Medicine
1938
as Totsie Mainwaring
L'écuyère
1922
Love in Exile
1936
as Baron Zarroy
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
1910
A Race for Millions
1912
Three Men in a Boat
1933
as George
It Happened to One Man
1940
as Adm. Drayton
The Love Habit
1931
as Alphonse Duboit
She Shall Have Music
1935
as Freddie Gates
The Fault of Another
1910
Le Jocond
1914
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
1913
Uneasy Virtue
1931
as Harvey Townsend
No Funny Business
1933
as Edmond Kane
The Agony of Byzantium
1913
as Isidore
Almost a Honeymoon
1938
as Aubrey Lovitt
A Little Bit of Fluff
1928
At the Hour of Dawn
1914
Monsieur Wants to Get Married
1910
La Cassette de l'émigrée
1912
L'Hôtel de la gare
1914
Severo Torelli
1914
About 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 ma… With 65 credits spanning from 1909 to 1952, Edmund Breon has appeared in 65 films and 0 TV shows.
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Most Popular Edmund Breon Movies
- Gaslight (1944) — as General Huddleston
- Fantômas (1913) — as Inspector Juve
- The Thing from Another World (1951) — as Prof. Ambrose
- The Woman in the Window (1944) — as Dr. Michael Barkstane
- Dressed to Kill (1946) — as Julian 'Stinky' Emery
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