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.
Acting
Movie
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Herr Meyer
1930
Movie
Duck Soup
as Zander
1933
Movie
Treasure Island
as Pirate of the Spanish Main
1934
Movie
Mata Hari
as Warden
1931
Movie
Platinum Blonde
as Conroy
1931
Movie
Female
as Board Member (Uncredited)
1933
Movie
Broadway Bill
as Presiding Judge
1934
Movie
Millie
as Defense Attorney
1931
Movie
International House
as Doctor Wong
1933
Movie
The Cabin in the Cotton
as Holmes Scott
1932
Movie
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho's Grandfather
1932
Movie
The Painted Desert
as Judge Matthews
1931
Movie
The Hurricane Express
as The Secretary's Father
1932
Movie
As You Desire Me
as Friar
1932
Movie
The Hatchet Man
as Yu Chang
1932
Movie
The Sea Bat
as Maddocks
1930
Movie
Cross-Examination
as Dwight Simpson
1932
Movie
The Reckoning
as Doc
1932
Movie
Morals for Women
as Mr. Hutson
1931
Movie
Love Bound
as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
1932
Movie
The Match King
as Olaf Christofsen
1932
Movie
Lost in the Stratosphere
as Col. Brooks
1934
Movie
Chinatown After Dark
as Le Fong
1931
Movie
Young Bride
as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
1932
