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