Edmund Breese
Acting
🎂 1871-06-17
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.
Cast credits(107)
Herr Meyer
1930
Defense Attorney
1931
Zander
1933
Pirate of the Spanish Main
1934
Warden
1931
Judge Matthews
1931
Olaf Christofsen
1932
The Secretary's Father
1932
Cho-Cho's Grandfather
1932
Presiding Judge
1934
Conroy
1931
J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
1932
Cabinet Officer
1933
Judge
1928
Hobart Richards
1924
Friar
1932
Doctor Wong
1933
J.P. Henderson
1931
Judge Robert Webster
1932
Investor (Uncredited)
1933
Col. Saunders
1924
Maddocks
1930
Board Member (Uncredited)
1933
Holmes Scott
1932
Sawdust Sam
1925
Judge Frank Sturgis
1920
Spencer Colgate
1930
Frank Wells
1931
Jawan
1930
Jim Keefe
1929
Matt Fargo
1933
Brad Martin
1932
General Cabot
1934
Hunter Kinemon
1930
Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
1926
1930
Trent
1931
Editor
1934
Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
1932
Sam Lynch
1932
Captain Thomas
1930
Col. Brooks
1934
General de Karodek
1930
Insp. Richardson
1922
John J. Caldwell
1926
Ollie
1929
Maj. Tarrant
1934
Franklin Harris
1930
Mr. Haddock
1933
Johnny Jetts
1922
Pop O'Keefe
1930
Mr. Hayes
1932
Yu Chang
1932
Dwight Simpson
1932
Thorpe
1929
Uncle Lester
1925
Le Fong
1931
Chuck Brady
1924
Mr. Winthrop
1923
Alan Crosby
1923
William Holden
1928
1930
Edmund MacDonald
1923
Daniel Gaynor
1916
Uncle Herbert
1928
Hastings
1928
The Great La Tour
1925
Charles Bryant
1919
Doc
1932
Capt. Bill Houston
1931
Mr. Ellins
1932
Hickory Ellins
1931
John Dossett
1928
Prison Warden
1933
J.C. Trevor
1934
King Cole
1921
Uncle Howard
1927
Mr. Hutson
1931
John Hardin
1929
Mike Harrigan
1926
Innkeeper
1924
Mr. Ellins
1932
John Russell Sr.
1933
Mr. Ellins
1933
1931
Jim Carson
1916
Henry Dawson
1924
Reverend Graham Drake
1923
Hickory Ellins
1932
Attorney for the Defense
1932
Mr. Ellins
1931
Wilmot
1928
Jim Carew
1916
Hickory Ellins
1932
Mr. Ellins
1933
Crusty
1933
1919
Hickory Ellins
1932
Mr. Filbert
1928
1915
Eddy
1929
Edward (Hickory) Ellins
1933
Himself
1933
Hickory Ellins
1932
Tom Devon
1927
1918
Colonel Shelby
1932
