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

1934

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

1933

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

1932

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

1931

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

1930

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

1929

Girl Overboard as Jim Keefe
Sonny Boy as Thorpe
Fancy Baggage as John Hardin
In the Headlines as Eddy
The Hottentot as Ollie

1928

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

1927

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

1926

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

1925

Womanhandled as Uncle Lester
The Live Wire as Sawdust Sam
The Early Bird as The Great La Tour

1924

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

1923

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

1922

Beyond the Rainbow as Insp. Richardson
Sure-Fire Flint as Johnny Jetts

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

1914

The Master Mind as Richard Allen