Edmund Breese
- Acting
- June 17, 1871 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
- April 6, 1936
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
- The Marriage Bargain · Judge Robert Stanhope
- Broadway Bill · Presiding Judge
- Lost in the Stratosphere · Col. Brooks
- Treasure Island · Pirate of the Spanish Main
- Return of the Terror · Editor
- Come On, Marines! · General Cabot
- Dancing Man · J.C. Trevor
- Beloved · Maj. Tarrant
- Above the Clouds · Crusty
- Duck Soup · Zander
- Female · Board Member (Uncredited)
- Only Yesterday · Investor (Uncredited)
- Ladies Must Love · Thomas Van Dyne
- A Man of Sentiment · John Russell Sr.
- Trying Out Torchy · Mr. Ellins
- How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points · Self
- Laughing at Life · Cabinet Officer
- Fighting With Kit Carson · Matt Fargo
- International House · Doctor Wong
- Torchy Turns Turtle · Mr. Ellins
- On Your Guard · Prison Warden
- Torchy's Kitty Coup · Edward (Hickory) Ellins
- The Billion Dollar Scandal · Mr. Haddock
- The Match King · Olaf Christofsen
- Madame Butterfly · Cho-cho San's Grandfather
- Women Won't Tell · Attorney for the Defense
- The Golden West · Sam Lynch
- Torchy Rolls His Own · Mr. Ellins
- Torchy's Busy Day · Hickory Ellins
- The Cabin in the Cotton · Holmes Scott
- Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure · Colonel Shelby
- Drifting Souls · Brad Martin
- The Hurricane Express · The Secretary's Father
- Alias Mary Smith · Mr. Hayes
- Torchy's Two Toots · Hickory Ellins
- As You Desire Me · Friar
- Torchy Raises the Auntie · Mr. Ellins
- Young Bride · Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
- Torchy's Night Cap · Hickory Ellins
- Love Bound · J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
- Police Court · Judge Robert Webster
- The Reckoning · Doc
- Cross-Examination · Dwight Simpson
- Torchy Turns the Trick · Hickory Ellins
- The Hatchet Man · Yu Chang
- Mata Hari · Warden
- Torchy Passes the Buck · Mr. Ellins
- Platinum Blonde · Conroy
- Morals for Women · Mr. Hutson
- Chinatown After Dark · Le Fong
- Torchy · Hickory Ellins
- The Public Defender · Frank Wells
- Defenders of the Law · Capt. Bill Houston
- The Good Bad Girl · J.P. Henderson
- Young Sinners · Trent
- The She-Wolf
- Millie · Defense Attorney
- The Painted Desert · Judge Matthews
- Chiselers of Hollywood
- Tol'able David · Hunter Kinemon
- Kismet · Jawan
- Playboy of Paris · General de Karodek
- Bright Lights · Franklin Harris
- Top Speed · Spencer Colgate
- The Sea Bat · Maddocks
- Rough Waters · Captain Thomas
- The Czar of Broadway
- All Quiet on the Western Front · Herr Meyer
- Hold Everything · Pop O'Keefe
- In the Headlines · Eddy
- The Hottentot · Ollie
- Girl Overboard · Jim Keefe
- Sonny Boy · Thorpe
- Girls Gone Wild · Judge Elliott
- Fancy Baggage · John Hardin
- Conquest · William Holden
- On Trial · Judge
- The Haunted House · Uncle Herbert
- The Wright Idea · Mr. Filbert
- The Perfect Crime · Wilmot