Edmund Breon

Acting Dec 11, 1882 Jun 24, 1953 (aged 71) Hamilton, Scotland, UK

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.

65 Acting Credits

Edmund Breon

Acting

The Thing from Another World

Gaslight

The Woman in the Window

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Dressed to Kill

The Lodger

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Rope of Sand

Fantômas

Forever Amber

The Dawn Patrol

Casanova Brown

The White Cliffs of Dover

The Private Life of Don Juan

Saratoga Trunk

Hills of Home

At Sword's Point

The Agony of Byzantium

Devotion

Enchantment

Challenge to Lassie

A Yank at Oxford

Owd Bob

Keep Fit