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