Edmund Breon

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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Hamilton, Scotland, UK

Birthday: December 11, 1882

Deathday: June 24, 1953

Adult: No

Gender: Male

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Known For:

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