Edmund Breon
Date of birth: 1882-12-11
Place of birth: Hamilton, Scotland, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty, Edmond Breon, Edmond Bréon
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Dressed to Kill
1946-05-24
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plate
Leap Year
1932-10-11
'Affianced Foreign Office agent searches for mystery woman he loves.' (British Film Catalogue)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939-07-28
Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping ris
Rope of Sand
1949-08-03
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out f
Challenge to Lassie
1949-10-31
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spa
The Woman in the Window
1944-10-25
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Casanova Brown
1944-08-23
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time. His first marriage, to Isabel, was annulled. But w
Saratoga Trunk
1945-11-21
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces
A Yank at Oxford
1938-02-18
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win
On Approval
1930-08-26
'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)
At Sword's Point
1952-04-22
France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is
Chances
1931-07-18
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945-01-19
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
The Imperfect Lady
1946-11-29
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
Three Men in a Boat
1933-04-30
An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends
Owd Bob
1938-01-26
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottl
Crackerjack
1938-10-01
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad gu
Mister Cinders
1935-01-12
The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who even
André Chénier
1910-02-06
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined durin
The Hour Before the Dawn
1944-05-10
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacif
Hills of Home
1948-11-25
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a coll
Fantômas
1913-05-09
A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crim
Wedding Rehearsal
1932-10-01
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by
La Cassette de l'émigrée
1912-05-01
She Shall Have Music
1935-04-14
Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his o
Born to Love
1931-04-17
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed
Keep Fit
1937-07-31
A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-boun
No Funny Business
1933-03-30
'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Love Habit
1931-01-16
'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
Luck of the Navy
1938-11-27
With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on
The Outsider
1939-01-30
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
1913-11-01
The Lodger
1944-01-19
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lo
Forever Amber
1947-10-10
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to
I Like Your Nerve
1931-09-12
A bookworm goes to Latin America and saves a politician's daughter from a forced marriage.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944-11-02
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts
A Race for Millions
1912-12-13
If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, h
The Divine Spark
1935-06-01
British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
Dangerous Medicine
1938-07-23
After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture th
The Thing from Another World
1951-04-05
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at
It Happened to One Man
1940-10-12
A film directed by Paul L. Stein.
The Fault of Another
1910-12-02
A silent short film directed by Louis Feuillade.
Uneasy Virtue
1931-02-05
A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
Women Who Play
1932-03-01
In order to deter his wife from having an affair a man hires an actress as part of an elaborate sche
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944-05-11
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan m
Enchantment
1948-12-25
Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lar
The Private Life of Don Juan
1934-01-01
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His
The Dawn Patrol
1930-07-10
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promote
The Agony of Byzantium
1913-10-24
The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empir
A Little Bit of Fluff
1928-07-28
Syd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.
L'Hôtel de la gare
1914-02-10
In order to take part in a "tournoi des dames", Narcisse Leblond persuades his wife that he is going
Le Jocond
1914-03-13
The constant smile of the eternally amiable Jacques Perdrot often complicates his life. Appointed ch
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934-12-20
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the
Almost a Honeymoon
1938-11-14
A young man who urgently needs to find a wife so that he can get a lucrative job in the colonial ser
At the Hour of Dawn
1914-04-04
When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed
Love in Exile
1936-12-09
When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreig
Devotion
1946-04-05
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev.
Severo Torelli
1914-05-15
Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own fa
The Beggar's Christmas
1910-01-01
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
1910-02-27
Monsieur Wants to Get Married
1910-10-07
Gaslight
1944-05-04
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Night Mail
1935-05-01
L'écuyère
1922-09-15