Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
June 17, 1871
Place of Birth:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Edmund Breese
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1934 | Return of the Terror | Editor |
| 1934 | Broadway Bill | Presiding Judge |
| 1934 | Lost in the Stratosphere | Col. Brooks |
| 1934 | Treasure Island | Pirate of the Spanish Main |
| 1934 | Dancing Man | J.C. Trevor |
| 1934 | Come On, Marines! | General Cabot |
| 1934 | Beloved | Maj. Tarrant |
| 1933 | Duck Soup | Zander |
| 1933 | Fighting With Kit Carson | Matt Fargo |
| 1933 | Trying Out Torchy | Mr. Ellins |
| 1933 | Torchy's Kitty Coup | Edward (Hickory) Ellins |
| 1933 | Torchy Turns Turtle | Mr. Ellins |
| 1933 | Laughing at Life | Cabinet Officer |
| 1933 | A Man of Sentiment | John Russell Sr. |
| 1933 | Above the Clouds | Crusty |
| 1933 | International House | Doctor Wong |
| 1933 | How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points | Himself |
| 1933 | Only Yesterday | Investor (Uncredited) |
| 1933 | The Billion Dollar Scandal | Mr. Haddock |
| 1933 | Female | Board Member (Uncredited) |
| 1933 | On Your Guard | Prison Warden |
| 1932 | The Hurricane Express | The Secretary's Father |
| 1932 | The Match King | Olaf Christofsen |
| 1932 | Cross-Examination | Dwight Simpson |
| 1932 | The Hatchet Man | Yu Chang |
| 1932 | The Reckoning | Doc |
| 1932 | Torchy Turns the Trick | Hickory Ellins |
| 1932 | Torchy's Night Cap | Hickory Ellins |
| 1932 | Torchy Raises the Auntie | Mr. Ellins |
| 1932 | Torchy's Two Toots | Hickory Ellins |
| 1932 | Torchy's Busy Day | Hickory Ellins |
| 1932 | Torchy Rolls His Own | Mr. Ellins |
| 1932 | Alias Mary Smith | Mr. Hayes |
| 1932 | Young Bride | Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker |
| 1932 | Drifting Souls | Brad Martin |
| 1932 | Women Won't Tell | Attorney for the Defense |
| 1932 | The Cabin in the Cotton | Holmes Scott |
| 1932 | Madame Butterfly | Cho-Cho's Grandfather |
| 1932 | Police Court | Judge Robert Webster |
| 1932 | Love Bound | J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison |
| 1932 | As You Desire Me | Friar |
| 1932 | The Golden West | Sam Lynch |
| 1932 | Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure | Colonel Shelby |
| 1931 | Platinum Blonde | Conroy |
| 1931 | Young Sinners | Trent |
| 1931 | Millie | Defense Attorney |
| 1931 | Chinatown After Dark | Le Fong |
| 1931 | Morals for Women | Mr. Hutson |
| 1931 | Torchy | Hickory Ellins |
| 1931 | Torchy Passes the Buck | Mr. Ellins |
| 1931 | The Good Bad Girl | J.P. Henderson |
| 1931 | The Painted Desert | Judge Matthews |
| 1931 | Defenders of the Law | Capt. Bill Houston |
| 1931 | The Public Defender | Frank Wells |
| 1931 | Mata Hari | Warden |
| 1931 | The She-Wolf | |
| 1930 | Kismet | Jawan |
| 1930 | The Sea Bat | Maddocks |
| 1930 | Top Speed | Spencer Colgate |
| 1930 | Bright Lights | Franklin Harris |
| 1930 | Tol'able David | Hunter Kinemon |
| 1930 | Playboy of Paris | General de Karodek |
| 1930 | Chiselers of Hollywood | |
| 1930 | Rough Waters | Captain Thomas |
| 1930 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Herr Meyer |
| 1930 | Hold Everything | Pop O'Keefe |
| 1930 | The Czar of Broadway | |
| 1929 | Sonny Boy | Thorpe |
| 1929 | The Hottentot | Ollie |
| 1929 | In the Headlines | Eddy |
| 1929 | Fancy Baggage | John Hardin |
| 1929 | Girl Overboard | Jim Keefe |
| 1928 | Finders Keepers | Hastings |
| 1928 | Burning Daylight | John Dossett |
| 1928 | The Perfect Crime | Wilmot |
| 1928 | The Wright Idea | Mr. Filbert |
| 1928 | On Trial | Judge |
| 1928 | Conquest | William Holden |
| 1928 | The Haunted House | Uncle Herbert |
| 1927 | Paradise for Two | Uncle Howard |
| 1927 | Back to Liberty | Tom Devon |
| 1926 | The Brown Derby | John J. Caldwell |
| 1926 | Stepping Along | Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky |
| 1926 | The Highbinders | Mike Harrigan |
| 1925 | Womanhandled | Uncle Lester |
| 1925 | The Live Wire | Sawdust Sam |
| 1925 | The Early Bird | The Great La Tour |
| 1924 | Damaged Hearts | Innkeeper |
| 1924 | The Sixth Commandment | Col. Saunders |
| 1924 | The Speed Spook | Chuck Brady |
| 1924 | Restless Wives | Hobart Richards |
| 1924 | Those Who Judge | Henry Dawson |
| 1923 | Luck | Alan Crosby |
| 1923 | Bright Lights of Broadway | Reverend Graham Drake |
| 1923 | Three O'Clock in the Morning | Mr. Winthrop |
| 1923 | Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers | Edmund MacDonald |
| 1922 | Beyond the Rainbow | Insp. Richardson |
| 1922 | Sure-Fire Flint | Johnny Jetts |
| 1921 | Burn 'Em Up Barnes | King Cole |
| 1920 | Chains of Evidence | Judge Frank Sturgis |
| 1919 | An Honorable Cad | |
| 1919 | Someone Must Pay | Charles Bryant |
| 1918 | The Master Crook | |
| 1916 | The Weakness of Strength | Daniel Gaynor |
| 1916 | The Lure of Heart's Desire | Jim Carew |
| 1916 | The Spell of the Yukon | Jim Carson |
| 1915 | The Song of the Wage Slave |
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