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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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23 July 1938
After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.
11 October 1932
'Affianced Foreign Office agent searches for mystery woman he loves.' (British Film Catalogue)
26 August 1930
'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)
30 January 1939
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
01 October 1938
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
19 January 1944
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
31 July 1937
A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.
17 April 1931
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.
04 May 1944
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
10 May 1944
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist.
12 January 1935
The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' – in this case, an oil millionaire's daughter!
05 April 1951
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
25 October 1944
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
26 January 1938
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie.
03 August 1949
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.
28 July 1939
Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
15 May 1914
Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own father.
16 January 1931
'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
24 May 1946
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes.
12 September 1931
A bookworm goes to Latin America and saves a politician's daughter from a forced marriage.
13 December 1912
If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.
05 April 1946
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev.
09 May 1913
A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecution.
25 December 1948
Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days.
20 December 1934
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.
11 May 1944
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance.
18 February 1938
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
10 October 1947
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.
10 July 1930
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.
23 August 1944
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time. His first marriage, to Isabel, was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel has just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted.
22 April 1952
France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power.
21 November 1945
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
31 October 1949
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
12 October 1940
A notorious swindler who returns from abroad and decides to reform his life for the sake of his estranged family.
14 November 1938
A young man who urgently needs to find a wife so that he can get a lucrative job in the colonial service, and sets out to persuade a woman to marry him.
29 November 1946
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
18 July 1931
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Molly is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound.
01 February 1934
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him.
01 October 1932
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off.
09 December 1936
When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance.
02 November 1944
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
05 February 1931
A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
27 November 1938
With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.
19 January 1945
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
25 November 1948
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to swim.
01 March 1932
In order to deter his wife from having an affair a man hires an actress as part of an elaborate scheme.
30 April 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.
01 June 1935
Recounting the life and romantic struggles of the celebrated Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini.
30 March 1933
'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
04 April 1914
When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed of the city's absent ruler, who must return in time to rescue his beloved and save the city.
28 July 1928
Syd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.
14 April 1935
Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from his yacht.
24 October 1913
The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire.
10 February 1914
In order to take part in a "tournoi des dames", Narcisse Leblond persuades his wife that he is going to look after his sick godmother at Beaucaire.
