Edmund Breese

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1871-06-17 (65 years old)

Deathday

1936-04-06

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

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...

Acting

1933

Duck Soup

as Zander

1928

Finders Keepers

as Hastings

1928

Burning Daylight

as John Dossett

1931

1929

Sonny Boy

as Thorpe

1931

1927

Paradise for Two

as Uncle Howard

1928

1932

The Hurricane Express

as The Secretary's Father

1933

1933

Trying Out Torchy

as Mr. Ellins

1934

Broadway Bill

as Presiding Judge

1932

The Match King

as Olaf Christofsen

1916

The Weakness of Strength

as Daniel Gaynor

1932

Cross-Examination

as Dwight Simpson

1931

Millie

as Defense Attorney

1931

1932

The Hatchet Man

as Yu Chang

1923

Luck

as Alan Crosby

1934

1925

Womanhandled

as Uncle Lester

1932

1931

Morals for Women

as Mr. Hutson

1928

The Wright Idea

as Mr. Filbert

1924

Damaged Hearts

as Innkeeper

1931

Torchy

as Hickory Ellins

1931

1932

Torchy Turns the Trick

as Hickory Ellins

1932

Torchy's Night Cap

as Hickory Ellins

1932

1932

Torchy's Two Toots

as Hickory Ellins

1932

Torchy's Busy Day

as Hickory Ellins

1932

1933

Torchy's Kitty Coup

as Edward (Hickory) Ellins

1933

Torchy Turns Turtle

as Mr. Ellins

1932

Alias Mary Smith

as Mr. Hayes

1931

The Good Bad Girl

as J.P. Henderson

1932

Young Bride

as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker

1932

Drifting Souls

as Brad Martin

1933

Laughing at Life

as Cabinet Officer

1932

Women Won't Tell

as Attorney for the Defense

1930

Kismet

as Jawan

1930

The Sea Bat

as Maddocks

1933

A Man of Sentiment

as John Russell Sr.

1931

The Painted Desert

as Judge Matthews

1931

Defenders of the Law

as Capt. Bill Houston

1933

1932

1926

The Brown Derby

as John J. Caldwell

1934

Treasure Island

as Pirate of the Spanish Main

1925

The Live Wire

as Sawdust Sam

1934

Dancing Man

as J.C. Trevor

1930

Top Speed

as Spencer Colgate

1930

Bright Lights

as Franklin Harris

1930

Tol'able David

as Hunter Kinemon

1931

The Public Defender

as Frank Wells

1930

Playboy of Paris

as General de Karodek

1927

Back to Liberty

as Tom Devon

1925

The Early Bird

as The Great La Tour

1932

Madame Butterfly

as Cho-Cho's Grandfather

1929

1929

1924

The Sixth Commandment

as Col. Saunders

1932

Police Court

as Judge Robert Webster

1933

International House

as Doctor Wong

1930

Rough Waters

as Captain Thomas

1932

Love Bound

as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison

1928

On Trial

as Judge

1928

Conquest

as William Holden

1929

Fancy Baggage

as John Hardin

1934

Come On, Marines!

as General Cabot

1930

Hold Everything

as Pop O'Keefe

1931

Mata Hari

as Warden

1921

Burn 'Em Up Barnes

as King Cole

1922

Beyond the Rainbow

as Insp. Richardson

1926

Stepping Along

as Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky

1929

Girl Overboard

as Jim Keefe

1932

1924

The Speed Spook

as Chuck Brady

1926

The Highbinders

as Mike Harrigan

1928

The Haunted House

as Uncle Herbert

1933

Only Yesterday

as Investor (Uncredited)

1933

1932

The Golden West

as Sam Lynch

1923

Bright Lights of Broadway

as Reverend Graham Drake

1933

Female

as Board Member (Uncredited)

1934

Beloved

as Maj. Tarrant

1923

1924

Restless Wives

as Hobart Richards

1933

On Your Guard

as Prison Warden

1920

Chains of Evidence

as Judge Frank Sturgis

1919

Someone Must Pay

as Charles Bryant

1916

1923

1922

Sure-Fire Flint

as Johnny Jetts

1924

Those Who Judge

as Henry Dawson

Production

1921

A Man's Home

as Theatre Play

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