Edmund Breon

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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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1952
At Sword's Point
Movie Queen's Chamberlain
1951
The Thing from Another World
Movie Prof. Ambrose
1949
Challenge to Lassie
Movie Magistrate
1949
Rope of Sand
Movie Parker, Chairman of the Board
1948
Enchantment
Movie Uncle Bunny
1948
Hills of Home
Movie Jamie Soutar
1947
Forever Amber
Movie Lord Redmond
1946
The Imperfect Lady
Movie Lord Chief Justice
1946
Dressed to Kill
Movie Julian 'Stinky' Emery
1946
Devotion
Movie Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
1945
Saratoga Trunk
Movie McIntyre (uncredited)
1945
The Man in Half Moon Street
Movie Sir Humphrey Brandon
1944
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Movie Guide (uncredited)
1944
The Woman in the Window
Movie Dr. Michael Barkstane
1944
Casanova Brown
Movie Mr. Drury
1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
Movie Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)

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1944
The Hour Before the Dawn
Movie Freddy Merritt
1944
Gaslight
Movie General Huddleston
1944
The Lodger
Movie
1940
It Happened to One Man
Movie Adm. Drayton
1939
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Movie Colonel Morgan
1939
The Outsider
Movie Dr. Ladd
1938
Luck of the Navy
Movie Adm. Maybridge
1938
Almost a Honeymoon
Movie Aubrey Lovitt
1938
Crackerjack
Movie Tony Davenport
1938
Dangerous Medicine
Movie Totsie Mainwaring
1938
A Yank at Oxford
Movie Captain Wavertree
1938
Owd Bob
Movie Lord Meredale
1937
Keep Fit
Movie Sir Augustus Marks
1936
Love in Exile
Movie Baron Zarroy
1935
The Divine Spark
Movie Rossini
1935
Night Mail
Movie Lord Ticehurst
1935
She Shall Have Music
Movie Freddie Gates
1935
Mister Cinders
Movie Sir George Lancaster
1934
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Movie Col. Winterbottom
1934
The Private Life of Don Juan
Movie Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
1933
Three Men in a Boat
Movie George
1933
No Funny Business
Movie Edmond Kane
1932
Leap Year
Movie Jack Debrant
1932
Wedding Rehearsal
Movie Lord Fleet