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