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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 17, 1871
Died
April 6, 1936
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Edmund Breese
0.4 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo (1893), The Lion and the Mouse (1906) with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree (1909) with Helen Ware, The Master Mind (1913) with Elliott Dexter, the popular World War I era play Why Marry? (1917) with Estelle Winwood & Nat C. Goodwin and So This Is London (1922) with Donald Gallaher. He appeared in 129 films between 1914 and 1935. He is best remembered as the advice-giving German businessman at the beginning of the war film All Quiet on the Western Front. His final role was on stage in Night of January 16th from September 1935 to April 1936. Just before the play ended its run, Breese developed peritonitis, which he died from on April 6, 1936.
Known For
6.0
Presiding Judge
Broadway Bill
1934
4.2
Col. Brooks
Lost in the Stratosphere
1934
6.5
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Treasure Island
1934
6.0
Editor
Return of the Terror
1934
4.5
General Cabot
Come On, Marines!
1934
5.0
J.C. Trevor
Dancing Man
1934
0.0
Maj. Tarrant
Beloved
1934
6.0
Crusty
Above the Clouds
1933
7.3
Zander
Duck Soup
1933
6.2
Board Member (Uncredited)
Female
1933
Credits
Broadway Bill
as Presiding Judge
1934
6.0
Lost in the Stratosphere
as Col. Brooks
1934
4.2
Treasure Island
as Pirate of the Spanish Main
1934
6.5
Return of the Terror
as Editor
1934
6.0
Come On, Marines!
as General Cabot
1934
4.5
Dancing Man
as J.C. Trevor
1934
5.0
Beloved
as Maj. Tarrant
1934
0.0
Above the Clouds
as Crusty
1933
6.0
Duck Soup
as Zander
1933
7.3
Female
as Board Member (Uncredited)
1933
6.2
Only Yesterday
as Investor (Uncredited)
1933
6.8
Ladies Must Love
as Thomas Van Dyne
1933
0.0
A Man of Sentiment
as John Russell Sr.
1933
0.0
🎬
Trying Out Torchy
as Mr. Ellins
1933
0.0
🎬
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
as Himself
1933
0.0
Laughing at Life
as Cabinet Officer
1933
6.0
Fighting With Kit Carson
as Matt Fargo
1933
6.0
International House
as Doctor Wong
1933
5.5
🎬
Torchy Turns Turtle
as Mr. Ellins
1933
0.0
On Your Guard
as Prison Warden
1933
6.0
🎬
Torchy's Kitty Coup
as Edward (Hickory) Ellins
1933
0.0
The Billion Dollar Scandal
as Mr. Haddock
1933
0.0
The Match King
as Olaf Christofsen
1932
6.2
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho's Grandfather
1932
5.2
Women Won't Tell
as Attorney for the Defense
1932
4.0
The Golden West
as Sam Lynch
1932
4.0
🎬
Torchy Rolls His Own
as Mr. Ellins
1932
0.0
🎬
Torchy's Busy Day
as Hickory Ellins
1932
0.0
The Cabin in the Cotton
as Holmes Scott
1932
6.3
🎬
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
as Colonel Shelby
1932
0.0
Drifting Souls
as Brad Martin
1932
0.0
The Hurricane Express
as The Secretary's Father
1932
5.2
Alias Mary Smith
as Mr. Hayes
1932
5.0
🎬
Torchy's Two Toots
as Hickory Ellins
1932
0.0
As You Desire Me
as Friar
1932
6.3
🎬
Torchy Raises the Auntie
as Mr. Ellins
1932
0.0
Young Bride
as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
1932
3.0
🎬
Torchy's Night Cap
as Hickory Ellins
1932
0.0
Love Bound
as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
1932
3.6
Police Court
as Judge Robert Webster
1932
5.0
The Reckoning
as Doc
1932
4.0
Cross-Examination
as Dwight Simpson
1932
4.6
🎬
Torchy Turns the Trick
as Hickory Ellins
1932
0.0
The Hatchet Man
as Yu Chang
1932
4.7
Mata Hari
as Warden
1931
6.2
🎬
Torchy Passes the Buck
as Mr. Ellins
1931
0.0
Platinum Blonde
as Conroy
1931
6.6
Morals for Women
as Mr. Hutson
1931
3.4
Chinatown After Dark
as Le Fong
1931
3.0
🎬
Torchy
as Hickory Ellins
1931
0.0
The Public Defender
as Frank Wells
1931
6.0
Defenders of the Law
as Capt. Bill Houston
1931
6.0
The Good Bad Girl
as J.P. Henderson
1931
5.5
Young Sinners
as Trent
1931
0.0
The She-Wolf
1931
0.0
Millie
as Defense Attorney
1931
5.1
The Painted Desert
as Judge Matthews
1931
4.7
Chiselers of Hollywood
1930
0.0
Tol'able David
as Hunter Kinemon
1930
7.0
Kismet
as Jawan
1930
2.7
Playboy of Paris
as General de Karodek
1930
7.0
Bright Lights
as Franklin Harris
1930
4.0
Top Speed
as Spencer Colgate
1930
6.0
The Sea Bat
as Maddocks
1930
4.3
Rough Waters
as Captain Thomas
1930
0.0
The Czar of Broadway
1930
0.0
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Herr Meyer
1930
7.7
Hold Everything
as Pop O'Keefe
1930
6.0
In the Headlines
as Eddy
1929
0.0
The Hottentot
as Ollie
1929
0.0
Girl Overboard
as Jim Keefe
1929
0.0
Sonny Boy
as Thorpe
1929
0.0
Fancy Baggage
as John Hardin
1929
0.0
Conquest
as William Holden
1928
0.0
On Trial
as Judge
1928
6.0
The Haunted House
as Uncle Herbert
1928
0.0
The Wright Idea
as Mr. Filbert
1928
0.0
The Perfect Crime
as Wilmot
1928
0.0
Burning Daylight
as John Dossett
1928
4.3
Finders Keepers
as Hastings
1928
0.0
Home Made
as Mr. Tilford
1927
0.0
Back to Liberty
as Tom Devon
1927
0.0
Paradise for Two
as Uncle Howard
1927
0.0
Stepping Along
as Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
1926
0.0
The Brown Derby
as John J. Caldwell
1926
6.0
🎬
The Highbinders
as Mike Harrigan
1926
0.0
Womanhandled
as Uncle Lester
1925
7.0
The Live Wire
as Sawdust Sam
1925
0.0
🎬
The Early Bird
as The Great La Tour
1925
0.0
Those Who Judge
as Henry Dawson
1924
0.0
The Speed Spook
as Chuck Brady
1924
3.0
The Sixth Commandment
as Col. Saunders
1924
3.3
Damaged Hearts
as Innkeeper
1924
0.0
🎬
Restless Wives
as Hobart Richards
1924
0.0
Three O'Clock in the Morning
as Mr. Winthrop
1923
0.0
The Fair Cheat
as Morgan Van Dam
1923
0.0
Marriage Morals
as Harry's Father
1923
0.0
Bright Lights of Broadway
as Reverend Graham Drake
1923
0.0
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
as Edmund MacDonald
1923
0.0
Luck
as Alan Crosby
1923
7.0
Sure-Fire Flint
as Johnny Jetts
1922
0.0
Beyond the Rainbow
as Insp. Richardson
1922
0.0
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
as King Cole
1921
3.0
A Common Level
as Matthew Ryan
1920
0.0
Chains of Evidence
as Judge Frank Sturgis
1920
0.0
Someone Must Pay
as Charles Bryant
1919
0.0
🎬
An Honorable Cad
1919
0.0
The Master Crook
1918
0.0
The Weakness of Strength
as Daniel Gaynor
1916
0.0
The Spell of the Yukon
as Jim Carson
1916
0.0
The Lure of Heart's Desire
as Jim Carew
1916
0.0
The Song of the Wage Slave
1915
0.0
The Master Mind
as Richard Allen
1914
0.0