Edmund Breon

Known for ActingBorn 1882-12-11Died 1953-06-24Hamilton, Scotland, UK

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.Read more

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Night Mail

No Funny Business

L'Hôtel de la gare

Bout-de-Zan et le lion

Almost a Honeymoon

Leap Year

On Approval

A Little Bit of Fluff

Le Jocond

It Happened to One Man

Luck of the Navy

Dangerous Medicine

Mister Cinders

The Divine Spark

Women Who Play

The Love Habit

At the Hour of Dawn

A Race for Millions

Gaslight

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

The Woman in the Window

Three Men in a Boat

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Chances

She Shall Have Music

Hills of Home

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Uneasy Virtue

Enchantment

L'écuyère

The Thing from Another World

The White Cliffs of Dover

Severo Torelli

Fantômas

La Cassette de l'émigrée

The Dawn Patrol

A Yank at Oxford

Dressed to Kill

The Lodger

Casanova Brown

The Hour Before the Dawn

Keep Fit

Saratoga Trunk

Forever Amber

Crackerjack

The Outsider

The Man in Half Moon Street

Devotion