Edmund Breon
Acting
Born 1882-12-11
Died 1953-06-24
Hamilton, Scotland, UK
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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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Filmography
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Acting
49 credits
Gaslight
The Thing from Another World
Dressed to Kill
The Woman in the Window
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Saratoga Trunk
Forever Amber
Casanova Brown
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The White Cliffs of Dover
Rope of Sand
Night Mail
A Yank at Oxford
Enchantment
André Chénier
The Private Life of Don Juan
At Sword's Point
Devotion
Hills of Home
The Dawn Patrol
Uneasy Virtue
Owd Bob
The Imperfect Lady
The Agony of Byzantium
Challenge to Lassie
Women Who Play
Fantômas
The Outsider
Chances
Wedding Rehearsal
Keep Fit
Luck of the Navy
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
The Hour Before the Dawn
Leap Year
Born to Love
I Like Your Nerve
She Shall Have Music
The Beggar's Christmas
Mister Cinders
No Funny Business
Love in Exile
Three Men in a Boat
The Man in Half Moon Street
On Approval
Dangerous Medicine
The Love Habit
Crackerjack
Almost a Honeymoon
Other credits
11 credits
L'écuyère
The Lodger
At the Hour of Dawn
Severo Torelli
The Fault of Another
Le Jocond
La Cassette de l'émigrée
A Little Bit of Fluff
L'Hôtel de la gare
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
A Race for Millions
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