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