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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, Bre... more

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.

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Gaslight
(1944)
Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
George Cukor
Cast:
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty, May Whitty
7.8
88%
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The Woman in the Window
(1944)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Fritz Lang
Cast:
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea
7.7
88%
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(1939)
Drama, Romance
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Sam Wood
Cast:
Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills, Paul Henreid
7.8
81%
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Dressed to Kill
(1946)
Crime, Mystery
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
Runtime:
72 min
Director:
Roy William Neill
Cast:
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Edmund Breon, Frederick Worlock
6.8
80%
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
(1934)
Adventure, Drama
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Harold Young
Cast:
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
7.4
90%
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Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine
(1913)
Crime, Drama
For the arch-criminal Fantômas, no crime is too daring, too adventurous. A master of disguise, he has no trouble relieving the Princess Danidoff of her priceless pearl necklace at the Royal Palace Hotel. Inspectator Juve is determined to capture Fantômas and put an end to his limitless villainy. Whilst investigating the disappearance o...
Runtime:
54 min
Director:
Louis Feuillade
Cast:
René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Edmund Breon, Renée Carl, Jane Faber
6.9
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Rope of Sand
(1949)
Action, Drama, Thriller
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
William Dieterle
Cast:
Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Corinne Calvet
6.8
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Fantômas: Juve Against Fantômas
(1913)
Crime, Drama
When a disfigured body of a woman is found in the lodgings of Dr. Chaleck, Inspector Juve immediately suspects this to be the work of his arch-enemy, the master criminal Fantômas. He and journalist Fandor trail Chaleck across Paris and see him being handed a note by a girl called Joséphine. Joséphine is the lover of Martialle, an emplo...
Runtime:
59 min
Director:
Louis Feuillade
Cast:
René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Edmund Breon, Renée Carl, Yvette Andréyor
6.8
100%
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Fantômas: Fantômas Against Fantômas
(1914)
Crime, Drama
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Runtime:
59 min
Director:
Louis Feuillade
Cast:
René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Edmund Breon, Laurent Morléas, Renée Carl
6.8
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Fantômas: The False Magistrate
(1914)
Crime, Drama
Inspector Juve finds out that Fantômas is serving a prison sentence in Belgium. Desperately eager to get the master criminal to France, Inspecteur Juve comes up with a plot to allow Fantômas to escape.
Runtime:
70 min
Director:
Louis Feuillade
Cast:
René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Edmund Breon, Mesnery, Laurent Morléas
6.9
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Casanova Brown
(1944)
Comedy
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Sam Wood
Cast:
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Frank Morgan, Anita Louise, Edmund Breon
6.4
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Hills of Home
(1948)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
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Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Fred M. Wilcox
Cast:
Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Rhys Williams
6.7
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At Sword's Point
(1952)
Adventure
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Runtime:
81 min
Director:
Lewis Allen
Cast:
Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Gladys Cooper, June Clayworth, Dan O'Herlihy
6.1
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Chances
(1931)
Drama, Romance, War
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Runtime:
72 min
Director:
Allan Dwan
Cast:
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rose Hobart, Anthony Bushell, Holmes Herbert, Mary Forbes
6.6
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N/A
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Crackerjack
(1938)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Runtime:
76 min
Director:
Albert de Courville
Cast:
Tom Walls, Lilli Palmer, Noel Madison, Leon M. Lion, Edmund Breon
6.8
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The Man in Half Moon Street
(1945)
Drama, Thriller
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Ralph Murphy
Cast:
Nils Asther, Helen Walker, Reinhold Schünzel, Paul Cavanagh, Edmund Breon
6.5
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N/A
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The Hour Before the Dawn
(1944)
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
Runtime:
75 min
5.9
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Owd Bob
(1938)
Drama, Romance
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Runtime:
78 min
6.4
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Mister Cinders
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Mister Cinders
(1934)
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Runtime:
69 min
7.3
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Three Men in a Boat
(1933)
An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on the Thames.
Runtime:
60 min
Director:
Graham Cutts
Cast:
William Austin, Edmund Breon, Billy Milton
5.7
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She Shall Have Music
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She Shall Have Music
(1935)
Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from his yacht.. Brian Gates, Freddie's son, has a low-approval-rating and a high dislike for jazz music and refuses board ship with the band on board. His father enters a conspiracy with singer Dorothy Drew to get ...
Director:
Leslie S. Hiscott
Cast:
Jack Hylton, June Clyde, Claude Dampier, Brian Lawrance, Gwen Farrar
5.7
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Fantômas
(1913)
Drama, Thriller
A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecution.
Runtime:
339 min
Director:
Louis Feuillade
Cast:
René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl, Jane Faber
N/A
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The Divine Spark
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The Divine Spark
(1935)
Music
British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
Carmine Gallone
Cast:
Mártha Eggerth, Phillips Holmes, Benita Hume, Donald Calthrop, Arthur Margetson
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