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.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Herr Meyer

Millie

Defense Attorney

The Painted Desert

Judge Matthews

Duck Soup

Zander

As You Desire Me

Friar

The Match King

Olaf Christofsen

Platinum Blonde

Conroy

International House

Doctor Wong

Mata Hari

Warden

Lost in the Stratosphere

Col. Brooks

The Golden West

Sam Lynch

Treasure Island

Pirate of the Spanish Main

The Hatchet Man

Yu Chang

Only Yesterday

Investor (Uncredited)

Alias Mary Smith

Mr. Hayes

Broadway Bill

Presiding Judge

The Hurricane Express

The Secretary's Father

Finders Keepers

Hastings

Madame Butterfly

Cho-Cho's Grandfather

The Spell of the Yukon

Jim Carson

Morals for Women

Mr. Hutson

Female

Board Member (Uncredited)

Burning Daylight

John Dossett

Conquest

William Holden

Love Bound

J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison

Young Bride

Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker

A Man of Sentiment

John Russell Sr.

Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers

Edmund MacDonald

Police Court

Judge Robert Webster

The Hottentot

Ollie

Above the Clouds

Crusty

Come On, Marines!

General Cabot

Beyond the Rainbow

Insp. Richardson

The Good Bad Girl

J.P. Henderson

Rough Waters

Captain Thomas

Kismet

Jawan

The Sea Bat

Maddocks

The Reckoning

Doc

Fighting With Kit Carson

Matt Fargo

Beloved

Maj. Tarrant

The Public Defender

Frank Wells

Playboy of Paris

General de Karodek

Young Sinners

Trent

The Czar of Broadway

Girl Overboard

Jim Keefe

The Cabin in the Cotton

Holmes Scott

Laughing at Life

Cabinet Officer

Cross-Examination

Dwight Simpson

Hold Everything

Pop O'Keefe

Chinatown After Dark

Le Fong

The Sixth Commandment

Col. Saunders

Fancy Baggage

John Hardin

On Your Guard

Prison Warden

Sonny Boy

Thorpe

The Perfect Crime

Wilmot

Drifting Souls

Brad Martin

Top Speed

Spencer Colgate

Burn 'Em Up Barnes

King Cole

The Weakness of Strength

Daniel Gaynor

The Speed Spook

Chuck Brady

The Wright Idea

Mr. Filbert

Bright Lights

Franklin Harris

Back to Liberty

Tom Devon

Return of the Terror

Editor

Paradise for Two

Uncle Howard

On Trial

Judge

The Billion Dollar Scandal

Mr. Haddock

The Brown Derby

John J. Caldwell

The Early Bird

The Great La Tour

Tol'able David

Hunter Kinemon

Womanhandled

Uncle Lester

Restless Wives

Hobart Richards

Dancing Man

J.C. Trevor

Torchy Raises the Auntie

Innkeeper

Defenders of the Law

Capt. Bill Houston