Edmund Breese
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.
Born: June 17, 1871
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Known For
All Quiet on the Western Front
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Duck Soup
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Luck
A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.
Womanhandled
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
Tol'able David
Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
Playboy of Paris
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
Only Yesterday
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk. As he begins to read, we're taken back to World War One and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Platinum Blonde
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
Treasure Island
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
The Cabin in the Cotton
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
Filmography
as Presiding Judge
as Col. Brooks
as Pirate of the Spanish Main
as Editor
as General Cabot
as J.C. Trevor
as Maj. Tarrant
as Crusty
as Zander
as Board Member (Uncredited)
as Investor (Uncredited)
as Thomas Van Dyne
as John Russell Sr.
as Cabinet Officer
as Matt Fargo
as Doctor Wong
as Prison Warden
as Mr. Haddock
as Olaf Christofsen
as Cho-Cho's Grandfather
as Attorney for the Defense
as Sam Lynch
as Holmes Scott
as Brad Martin
as The Secretary's Father
as Mr. Hayes
as Friar
as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
as Judge Robert Webster
as Doc
as Dwight Simpson
as Yu Chang
as Warden
as Conroy
as Mr. Hutson
as Le Fong
as Frank Wells
as Capt. Bill Houston
as J.P. Henderson
as Trent
as Defense Attorney
as Judge Matthews
as Hunter Kinemon
as Jawan
as General de Karodek
as Franklin Harris
as Spencer Colgate
as Maddocks
as Captain Thomas
as Herr Meyer
as Pop O'Keefe
as Eddy
as Ollie
as Jim Keefe
as Thorpe
as Judge Elliott
as John Hardin
as William Holden
as Judge
as Uncle Herbert
as Mr. Filbert
as Wilmot
as John Dossett
as Hastings
as Mr. Tilford
as Tom Devon
as Uncle Howard
as Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
as John J. Caldwell
as Uncle Lester
as Sawdust Sam
as Henry Dawson
as Chuck Brady
as Col. Saunders
as Innkeeper
as Mr. Winthrop
as Morgan Van Dam
as Harry's Father
as Reverend Graham Drake
as Edmund MacDonald
as Alan Crosby
as Johnny Jetts
as Insp. Richardson
as King Cole
as Matthew Ryan
as Judge Frank Sturgis
as Judge Laton
as Charles Bryant
as Daniel Gaynor
as Jim Carson
as Jim Carew
as Richard Allen