Edmund Breon
| Edmund Breon | |
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| Born |
Edmund MacLaverty 12 December 1882 Hamilton, Scotland, UK |
| Died | 1951 (aged 68) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1907–1951 |
Edmund Breon (12 December 1882 – 1951) was a Scottish film 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, film editor, Breon "started out at the turn of the century doing silent pictures in France. Vampire movies",[1] so it is reasonably certain that MacLaverty is indeed the actor who appeared under the name Edmond Bréon[2] 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).
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."[3]
His grandson also recalls that he played the role of Dr. Ambrose in Howard Hawks’ The Thing from Another World (1951).[4]
Breon died in his native Scotland in 1951, aged 68, although the date, cause and place are unknown.
Selected filmography
- L'homme aimanté (1907)
- Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine (1913)
- Juve contre Fantômas (1913)
- Le mort qui tue (1913)
- Les vampires (1915)
- L'écuyère (1922)
- A Little Bit of Fluff (1928)
- The Dawn Patrol (1930)
- On Approval (1930)
- The Love Habit (1931)
- Born to Love (1931)
- Uneasy Virtue (1931)
- Chances (1931)
- I Like Your Nerve (1931)
- Women Who Play (1932)
- Wedding Rehearsal (1932)
- Leap Year (1932)
- Three Men in a Boat (1933)
- No Funny Business (1933)
- Waltz Time (1933)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
- The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
- Mister Cinders (1934)
- She Shall Have Music (1935)
- The Divine Spark (1935)
- Night Mail (1935)
- Royal Cavalcade (1935)
- Strangers on Honeymoon (1936)
- Love in Exile (1936)
- Keep Fit (1937)
- Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
- French Leave (1937)
- Owd Bob (1938)
- Almost a Honeymoon (1938)
- A Yank at Oxford (1938)
- Dangerous Medicine (1938)
- Crackerjack (1938)
- Luck of the Navy (1938)
- Many Tanks Mr. Atkins (1938)
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- It Happened to One Man (1940)
- Gaslight (1944)
- Casanova Brown (1944)
- The Woman in the Window (1944)
- Dressed to Kill (1946)
- Devotion (1946)
- The Imperfect Lady (1947)
- Challenge to Lassie (1949)
- The Thing from Another World (1951)
- At Sword's Point (1952)
References
- ↑ Interview with Michael MacLaverty
- ↑ Page dedicated to the French actor Edmond Bréon
- ↑ "British Star Given Top Role in 'Sand'". Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Press. March 24, 1949. p. 22. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ↑ Interview with Michael MacLaverty
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