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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 11, 1882
Died
June 24, 1953
Place of Birth
Hamilton, Scotland, UK
Also Known As
- Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty
- Edmond Breon
- Edmond Bréon
Edmund Breon
0.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
4.8
Queen's Chamberlain
At Sword's Point
1952
6.7
Prof. Ambrose
The Thing from Another World
1951
4.8
Magistrate
Challenge to Lassie
1949
5.6
Parker, Chairman of the Board
Rope of Sand
1949
6.4
Uncle Bunny
Enchantment
1948
6.7
Jamie Soutar
Hills of Home
1948
6.0
Lord Redmond
Forever Amber
1947
0.0
Lord Chief Justice
The Imperfect Lady
1946
6.6
Julian 'Stinky' Emery
Dressed to Kill
1946
6.0
Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
Devotion
1946
Credits
At Sword's Point
as Queen's Chamberlain
1952
4.8
The Thing from Another World
as Prof. Ambrose
1951
6.7
Challenge to Lassie
as Magistrate
1949
4.8
Rope of Sand
as Parker, Chairman of the Board
1949
5.6
Enchantment
as Uncle Bunny
1948
6.4
Hills of Home
as Jamie Soutar
1948
6.7
Forever Amber
as Lord Redmond
1947
6.0
The Imperfect Lady
as Lord Chief Justice
1946
0.0
Dressed to Kill
as Julian 'Stinky' Emery
1946
6.6
Devotion
as Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
1946
6.0
Saratoga Trunk
as McIntyre (uncredited)
1945
5.7
The Man in Half Moon Street
as Sir Humphrey Brandon
1945
5.4
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
as Guide (uncredited)
1944
7.3
The Woman in the Window
as Dr. Michael Barkstane
1944
7.4
Casanova Brown
as Mr. Drury
1944
6.4
The White Cliffs of Dover
as Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
1944
6.5
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Freddy Merritt
1944
5.5
Gaslight
as General Huddleston
1944
7.5
The Lodger
1944
6.4
🎬
It Happened to One Man
as Adm. Drayton
1940
0.0
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Colonel Morgan
1939
7.4
The Outsider
as Dr. Ladd
1939
5.0
Luck of the Navy
as Adm. Maybridge
1938
6.0
🎬
Almost a Honeymoon
as Aubrey Lovitt
1938
0.0
Crackerjack
as Tony Davenport
1938
5.9
🎬
Dangerous Medicine
as Totsie Mainwaring
1938
0.0
A Yank at Oxford
as Captain Wavertree
1938
6.7
Owd Bob
as Lord Meredale
1938
5.1
Keep Fit
as Sir Augustus Marks
1937
6.0
Love in Exile
as Baron Zarroy
1936
0.0
🎬
The Divine Spark
as Rossini
1935
0.0
🎬
Night Mail
as Lord Ticehurst
1935
0.0
🎬
She Shall Have Music
as Freddie Gates
1935
6.0
Mister Cinders
as Sir George Lancaster
1935
0.0
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Col. Winterbottom
1934
6.9
The Private Life of Don Juan
as Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
1934
5.9
Three Men in a Boat
as George
1933
5.0
No Funny Business
as Edmond Kane
1933
0.0
🎬
Leap Year
as Jack Debrant
1932
0.0
Wedding Rehearsal
as Lord Fleet
1932
4.6
🎬
Women Who Play
as Rachie Wells
1932
0.0
I Like Your Nerve
as Clive Lattimer
1931
5.7
Chances
as The General
1931
7.0
Born to Love
as Tom Kent (uncredited)
1931
5.0
Uneasy Virtue
as Harvey Townsend
1931
0.0
The Love Habit
as Alphonse Duboit
1931
0.0
🎬
On Approval
as Richard Wemys
1930
0.0
The Dawn Patrol
as Lieutenant Phipps
1930
6.7
A Little Bit of Fluff
1928
0.0
🎬
L'écuyère
1922
0.0
Severo Torelli
1914
0.0
At the Hour of Dawn
1914
0.0
🎬
Le Jocond
1914
0.0
🎬
L'Hôtel de la gare
1914
0.0
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
1913
0.0
The Agony of Byzantium
as Isidore
1913
5.7
Fantômas
as Inspector Juve
1913
6.9
🎬
A Race for Millions
1912
0.0
La Cassette de l'émigrée
1912
0.0
The Fault of Another
1910
0.0
🎬
Monsieur Wants to Get Married
1910
0.0
🎬
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
1910
0.0
🎬
André Chénier
as Marie-Joseph Chénier
1910
4.2
🎬
The Beggar's Christmas
as Le vagabond
1910
0.0