Edmund Breon
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
Gaslight
General Huddleston
Night Mail
Lord Ticehurst
The Thing from Another World
Prof. Ambrose
Casanova Brown
Mr. Drury
Dressed to Kill
Julian 'Stinky' Emery
The Woman in the Window
Dr. Michael Barkstane
Owd Bob
Lord Meredale
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Colonel Morgan
No Funny Business
Edmond Kane
Uneasy Virtue
Harvey Townsend
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Col. Winterbottom
The White Cliffs of Dover
Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
Challenge to Lassie
Magistrate
The Lodger
Fantômas
Inspector Juve
Rope of Sand
Parker, Chairman of the Board
Forever Amber
Lord Redmond
The Dawn Patrol
Lieutenant Phipps
Enchantment
Uncle Bunny
Chances
The General
The Hour Before the Dawn
Freddy Merritt
Hills of Home
Jamie Soutar
A Yank at Oxford
Captain Wavertree
Saratoga Trunk
McIntyre (uncredited)
Devotion
Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
The Imperfect Lady
Lord Chief Justice
Born to Love
Tom Kent (uncredited)
The Man in Half Moon Street
Sir Humphrey Brandon
Wedding Rehearsal
Lord Fleet
The Private Life of Don Juan
Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Guide (uncredited)
André Chénier
Marie-Joseph Chénier
L'écuyère
At Sword's Point
Queen's Chamberlain
Keep Fit
Sir Augustus Marks
Le Jocond
Mister Cinders
Sir George Lancaster
Women Who Play
Rachie Wells
Love in Exile
Baron Zarroy
At the Hour of Dawn
Three Men in a Boat
George
She Shall Have Music
Freddie Gates
Luck of the Navy
Adm. Maybridge
Severo Torelli
Fantômas: Juve versus Fantômas
Inspector Juve
The Love Habit
Alphonse Duboit
It Happened to One Man
Adm. Drayton
Crackerjack
Tony Davenport
The Divine Spark
Rossini
The Outsider
Dr. Ladd
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
A Race for Millions
Leap Year
Jack Debrant
The Beggar's Christmas
Le vagabond
Dangerous Medicine
Totsie Mainwaring
A Little Bit of Fluff
I Like Your Nerve
Clive Lattimer
On Approval
Richard Wemys
Almost a Honeymoon
Aubrey Lovitt
La Cassette de l'émigrée
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
The Fault of Another
L'Hôtel de la gare
The Agony of Byzantium
Isidore