Acting
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.
Filmography
At Sword's Point
Film · 1952
The Thing from Another World
Film · 1951
Rope of Sand
Film · 1949
Challenge to Lassie
Film · 1949
Hills of Home
Film · 1948
Enchantment
Film · 1948
Forever Amber
Film · 1947
Dressed to Kill
Film · 1946
The Imperfect Lady
Film · 1946
Devotion
Film · 1946
Saratoga Trunk
Film · 1945
The Man in Half Moon Street
Film · 1945
The Woman in the Window
Film · 1944
Casanova Brown
Film · 1944
The Hour Before the Dawn
Film · 1944
The Lodger
Film · 1944
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Film · 1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
Film · 1944
Gaslight
Film · 1944
It Happened to One Man
Film · 1940
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Film · 1939
The Outsider
Film · 1939
A Yank at Oxford
Film · 1938
Owd Bob
Film · 1938
Crackerjack
Film · 1938
Luck of the Navy
Film · 1938
Dangerous Medicine
Film · 1938
Almost a Honeymoon
Film · 1938
Keep Fit
Film · 1937
Love in Exile
Film · 1936
Mister Cinders
Film · 1935
She Shall Have Music
Film · 1935
The Divine Spark
Film · 1935
Night Mail
Film · 1935
The Private Life of Don Juan
Film · 1934
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Film · 1934
Three Men in a Boat
Film · 1933
No Funny Business
Film · 1933
Leap Year
Film · 1932
Wedding Rehearsal
Film · 1932
Women Who Play
Film · 1932
Chances
Film · 1931
Born to Love
Film · 1931
The Love Habit
Film · 1931
I Like Your Nerve
Film · 1931
Uneasy Virtue
Film · 1931
On Approval
Film · 1930
The Dawn Patrol
Film · 1930
A Little Bit of Fluff
Film · 1928
L'écuyère
Film · 1922
Le Jocond
Film · 1914
L'Hôtel de la gare
Film · 1914
At the Hour of Dawn
Film · 1914
Severo Torelli
Film · 1914
Fantômas
Film · 1913
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
Film · 1913
The Agony of Byzantium
Film · 1913
Bout-de-Zan fait les commissions
Film · 1913
Les Cerises de Bout-de-Zan
Film · 1913
Fantômas
Series · 1913
La Cassette de l'émigrée
Film · 1912
A Race for Millions
Film · 1912
André Chénier
Film · 1910
The Fault of Another
Film · 1910
The Beggar's Christmas
Film · 1910
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
Film · 1910
Monsieur Wants to Get Married
Film · 1910
La Bous Bous Mée
Film · 1909