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  • BIRTH 11/12/1882
  • DEATH 24/06/1953
  • Country United Kingdom
  • MOVIES 16

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.

Edmund Breon

Movies (16)

Gaslight
Gaslight
General Huddleston
The Thing from Another World
The Thing from Another World
Prof. Ambrose
Casanova Brown
Casanova Brown
Mr. Drury
Devotion
Devotion
Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
The Imperfect Lady
The Imperfect Lady
Lord Chief Justice
Hills of Home
Hills of Home
Jamie Soutar
The Private Life of Don Juan
The Private Life of Don Juan
Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Colonel Morgan
The Woman in the Window
The Woman in the Window
Dr. Michael Barkstane
Lysistrata ou La grève des baisers
Lysistrata ou La grève des baisers
Dressed to Kill
Dressed to Kill
Julian 'Stinky' Emery
Forever Amber
Forever Amber
Lord Redmond
Owd Bob
Owd Bob
Lord Meredale
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Col. Winterbottom
Challenge to Lassie
Challenge to Lassie
Magistrate
La faute d'une autre
La faute d'une autre