Edmund Breese

Born: 1871-06-17 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Died: 1936-04-06

Known For: Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia 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.

Filmography

1935

The Marriage Bargain as Judge Robert Stanhope

1934

Treasure Island as Pirate of the Spanish Main
Broadway Bill as Presiding Judge
Come On, Marines! as General Cabot
Beloved as Maj. Tarrant
Dancing Man as J.C. Trevor
Return of the Terror as Editor
Lost in the Stratosphere as Col. Brooks

1933

Duck Soup as Zander
Female as Board Member (Uncredited)
Only Yesterday as Investor (Uncredited)
International House as Doctor Wong
Above the Clouds as Crusty
Laughing at Life as Cabinet Officer
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points as Himself
Fighting With Kit Carson as Matt Fargo
A Man of Sentiment as John Russell Sr.
On Your Guard as Prison Warden
The Billion Dollar Scandal as Mr. Haddock
Ladies Must Love as Thomas Van Dyne
Torchy's Kitty Coup as Edward (Hickory) Ellins
Torchy Turns Turtle as Mr. Ellins
Trying Out Torchy as Mr. Ellins

1932

As You Desire Me as Friar
The Cabin in the Cotton as Holmes Scott
The Hurricane Express as The Secretary's Father
The Match King as Olaf Christofsen
The Reckoning as Doc
Young Bride as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
Madame Butterfly as Cho-Cho's Grandfather
Cross-Examination as Dwight Simpson
Women Won't Tell as Attorney for the Defense
Police Court as Judge Robert Webster
The Hatchet Man as Yu Chang
Love Bound as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
The Golden West as Sam Lynch
Drifting Souls as Brad Martin
Alias Mary Smith as Mr. Hayes
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure as Colonel Shelby
Torchy's Night Cap as Hickory Ellins
Torchy's Busy Day as Hickory Ellins
Torchy's Two Toots as Hickory Ellins
Torchy Raises the Auntie as Mr. Ellins
Torchy Turns the Trick as Hickory Ellins
Torchy Rolls His Own as Mr. Ellins

1931

Mata Hari as Warden
Millie as Defense Attorney
The Public Defender as Frank Wells
Platinum Blonde as Conroy
The Painted Desert as Judge Matthews
Chinatown After Dark as Le Fong
Morals for Women as Mr. Hutson
The Good Bad Girl as J.P. Henderson
Defenders of the Law as Capt. Bill Houston
Young Sinners as Trent
Torchy Passes the Buck as Mr. Ellins
The She-Wolf
Torchy as Hickory Ellins

1930

All Quiet on the Western Front as Herr Meyer
The Sea Bat as Maddocks
Kismet as Jawan
Bright Lights as Franklin Harris
Top Speed as Spencer Colgate
Tol'able David as Hunter Kinemon
Playboy of Paris as General de Karodek
The Czar of Broadway
Chiselers of Hollywood
Hold Everything as Pop O'Keefe
Rough Waters as Captain Thomas

1929

Girl Overboard as Jim Keefe
Fancy Baggage as John Hardin
The Hottentot as Ollie
In the Headlines as Eddy
Sonny Boy as Thorpe
Girls Gone Wild as Judge Elliott

1928

On Trial as Judge
Conquest as William Holden
The Wright Idea as Mr. Filbert
The Haunted House as Uncle Herbert
Burning Daylight as John Dossett
The Perfect Crime as Wilmot
Finders Keepers as Hastings

1927

Paradise for Two as Uncle Howard
Back to Liberty as Tom Devon
Home Made as Mr. Tilford

1926

Stepping Along as Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
The Highbinders as Mike Harrigan
The Brown Derby as John J. Caldwell

1925

Womanhandled as Uncle Lester
The Live Wire as Sawdust Sam
Wildfire as Sen. Woodhurst
The Early Bird as The Great La Tour

1924

Damaged Hearts as Innkeeper
The Sixth Commandment as Col. Saunders
Restless Wives as Hobart Richards
The Speed Spook as Chuck Brady
Those Who Judge as Henry Dawson

1923

Luck as Alan Crosby
Marriage Morals as Harry's Father
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers as Edmund MacDonald
Three O'Clock in the Morning as Mr. Winthrop
The Fair Cheat as Morgan Van Dam
Bright Lights of Broadway as Reverend Graham Drake

1922

Sure-Fire Flint as Johnny Jetts
Beyond the Rainbow as Insp. Richardson
The Curse of Drink as John Rand

1921

Burn 'Em Up Barnes as King Cole
A Man's Home ... (Theatre Play)

1920

Chains of Evidence as Judge Frank Sturgis
A Common Level as Matthew Ryan
His Temporary Wife as Judge Laton

1914

The Master Mind as Richard Allen