Edmund Breese
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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
All Quiet on the Western Front
Herr Meyer
The Painted Desert
Judge Matthews
Millie
Defense Attorney
Duck Soup
Zander
Treasure Island
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Mata Hari
Warden
Platinum Blonde
Conroy
Broadway Bill
Presiding Judge
The Public Defender
Frank Wells
Madame Butterfly
Cho-Cho's Grandfather
As You Desire Me
Friar
The Hurricane Express
The Secretary's Father
Female
Board Member (Uncredited)
The Cabin in the Cotton
Holmes Scott
Kismet
Jawan
The Billion Dollar Scandal
Mr. Haddock
International House
Doctor Wong
The Match King
Olaf Christofsen
Only Yesterday
Investor (Uncredited)
Playboy of Paris
General de Karodek
Chinatown After Dark
Le Fong
Police Court
Judge Robert Webster
Drifting Souls
Brad Martin
The Good Bad Girl
J.P. Henderson
The Brown Derby
John J. Caldwell
A Man of Sentiment
John Russell Sr.
Fighting With Kit Carson
Matt Fargo
Alias Mary Smith
Mr. Hayes
Lost in the Stratosphere
Col. Brooks
Love Bound
J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
Restless Wives
Hobart Richards
The Perfect Crime
Wilmot
Come On, Marines!
General Cabot
Young Sinners
Trent
Young Bride
Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
Women Won't Tell
Attorney for the Defense
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
King Cole
Paradise for Two
Uncle Howard
The Hatchet Man
Yu Chang
The Hottentot
Ollie
Beloved
Maj. Tarrant
The Reckoning
Doc
Above the Clouds
Crusty
Cross-Examination
Dwight Simpson
Return of the Terror
Editor
Three O'Clock in the Morning
Mr. Winthrop
Sure-Fire Flint
Johnny Jetts
The Sixth Commandment
Col. Saunders
The Haunted House
Uncle Herbert
The Sea Bat
Maddocks
Womanhandled
Uncle Lester
On Trial
Judge
Luck
Alan Crosby
Sonny Boy
Thorpe
Fancy Baggage
John Hardin
Bright Lights
Franklin Harris
The Highbinders
Mike Harrigan
The Golden West
Sam Lynch
On Your Guard
Prison Warden
Dancing Man
J.C. Trevor
Burning Daylight
John Dossett
Morals for Women
Mr. Hutson
The Czar of Broadway
Hold Everything
Pop O'Keefe
Stepping Along
Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
Top Speed
Spencer Colgate
Laughing at Life
Cabinet Officer
The Live Wire
Sawdust Sam
Finders Keepers
Hastings
Conquest
William Holden
Tol'able David
Hunter Kinemon
Defenders of the Law
Capt. Bill Houston
The Wright Idea
Mr. Filbert
Bright Lights of Broadway
Reverend Graham Drake
Rough Waters
Captain Thomas
Chiselers of Hollywood
Torchy Passes the Buck
Mr. Ellins
The Weakness of Strength
Daniel Gaynor
The Spell of the Yukon
Jim Carson
Those Who Judge
Henry Dawson
The Speed Spook
Chuck Brady
In the Headlines
Eddy
Chains of Evidence
Judge Frank Sturgis
Torchy Raises the Auntie
Mr. Ellins
The Song of the Wage Slave
Damaged Hearts
Innkeeper
Someone Must Pay
Charles Bryant
Beyond the Rainbow
Insp. Richardson
Torchy Turns the Trick
Hickory Ellins
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
Edmund MacDonald
The She-Wolf
Girl Overboard
Jim Keefe
The Early Bird
The Great La Tour
Torchy Rolls His Own
Mr. Ellins
Back to Liberty
Tom Devon
Torchy's Kitty Coup
Edward (Hickory) Ellins
An Honorable Cad
Torchy's Night Cap
Hickory Ellins
Torchy
Hickory Ellins
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
Himself
Trying Out Torchy
Mr. Ellins
Torchy's Two Toots
Hickory Ellins
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
Colonel Shelby
Torchy's Busy Day
Hickory Ellins
Torchy Turns Turtle
Mr. Ellins
The Lure of Heart's Desire
Jim Carew