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Edmund Breese

Edmund Breese

Birthday: 1871-06-18 | Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1934
Dancing Man

as    J.C. Trevor

1933
Above the Clouds

as    Crusty

1933
Fighting With Kit Carson

as    Matt Fargo

1933
Duck Soup

as    Zander

1932
The Golden West

as    Sam Lynch

1932
The Hurricane Express

as    The Secretary's Father

1932
The Hatchet Man

as    Yu Chang

1931
Defenders of the Law

as    Capt. Bill Houston

1931
Platinum Blonde

as    Conroy

1931
Millie

as    Defense Attorney

1931
The Public Defender

as    Frank Wells

1931
The Painted Desert

as    Judge Matthews

1931
Chinatown After Dark

as    Le Fong

1931
Mata Hari

as    Warden

1930
Bright Lights

as    Franklin Harris

1930
Kismet

as    Jawan

1925
The Live Wire

as    Sawdust Sam