Edmund Breon
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
Julian 'Stinky' Emery
Dressed to Kill
Jack Debrant
Leap Year
Colonel Morgan
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Parker, Chairman of the Board
Rope of Sand
Magistrate
Challenge to Lassie
Dr. Michael Barkstane
The Woman in the Window
Mr. Drury
Casanova Brown
McIntyre (uncredited)
Saratoga Trunk
Captain Wavertree
A Yank at Oxford
Richard Wemys
On Approval
Queen's Chamberlain
At Sword's Point
The General
Chances
Sir Humphrey Brandon
The Man in Half Moon Street
Lord Chief Justice
The Imperfect Lady
George
Three Men in a Boat
Lord Meredale
Owd Bob
Tony Davenport
Crackerjack
Sir George Lancaster
Mister Cinders
Marie-Joseph Chénier
André Chénier
Freddy Merritt
The Hour Before the Dawn
Jamie Soutar
Hills of Home
Inspector Juve
Fantômas
Lord Fleet
Wedding Rehearsal
La Cassette de l'émigrée
Freddie Gates
She Shall Have Music
Tom Kent (uncredited)
Born to Love
Sir Augustus Marks
Keep Fit
Edmond Kane
No Funny Business
Alphonse Duboit
The Love Habit
Adm. Maybridge
Luck of the Navy
Dr. Ladd
The Outsider
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
The Lodger
Lord Redmond
Forever Amber
Clive Lattimer
I Like Your Nerve
Guide (uncredited)
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
La Course aux millions
Rossini
The Divine Spark
Totsie Mainwaring
Dangerous Medicine
Prof. Ambrose
The Thing from Another World
Adm. Drayton
It Happened to One Man
La Faute d'une autre
Harvey Townsend
Uneasy Virtue
Rachie Wells
Women Who Play
Rupert Bancroft (uncredited)
The White Cliffs of Dover
Uncle Bunny
Enchantment
Cardona, the Playwright, as Playwrights Go
The Private Life of Don Juan
Lieutenant Phipps
The Dawn Patrol
Isidore
L'Agonie de Byzance
A Little Bit of Fluff
Le Jocond
L'Hôtel de la gare
Col. Winterbottom
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Aubrey Lovitt
Almost a Honeymoon
Pâques rouges
Baron Zarroy
Love in Exile
Sir John Thornton (uncredited)
Devotion
Severo Torelli
Le vagabond
Le Noël du vagabond
Lysistrata ou La grève des baisers
Monsieur veut se marier
General Huddleston
Gaslight
Lord Ticehurst
Night Mail
L'écuyère
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
64
Gender
Male
Birthday
1882-12-11
Place of Birth
Hamilton, Scotland, UK
Also Known As
Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty