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(108)
Herr Meyer
1930
Presiding Judge
1934
Zander
1933
Col. Saunders
1924
The Secretary's Father
1932
Judge
1928
Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
1932
Sam Lynch
1932
Judge Robert Webster
1932
Matt Fargo
1933
Doc
1932
Warden
1931
Defense Attorney
1931
Pirate of the Spanish Main
1934
Dwight Simpson
1932
Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
1926
Cho-Cho's Grandfather
1932
Yu Chang
1932
Tom Devon
1927
Judge Matthews
1931
Board Member (Uncredited)
1933
Investor (Uncredited)
1933
John Russell Sr.
1933
General Cabot
1934
Editor
1934
Frank Wells
1931
Maj. Tarrant
1934
Mike Harrigan
1926
Prison Warden
1933
Mr. Ellins
1933
Franklin Harris
1930
Uncle Herbert
1928
Pop O'Keefe
1930
Olaf Christofsen
1932
Wilmot
1928
Friar
1932
Hickory Ellins
1932
Mr. Hayes
1932
Conroy
1931
The Great La Tour
1925
Sawdust Sam
1925
Holmes Scott
1932
1930
Mr. Ellins
1933
Doctor Wong
1933
Cabinet Officer
1933
Mr. Ellins
1932
John Dossett
1928
Richard Allen
1914
Alan Crosby
1923
Ollie
1929
Edward (Hickory) Ellins
1933
Henry Dawson
1924
Col. Brooks
1934
Mr. Ellins
1932
Jawan
1930
Chuck Brady
1924
General de Karodek
1930
King Cole
1921
Mr. Winthrop
1923
Johnny Jetts
1922
Mr. Haddock
1933
Hunter Kinemon
1930
Spencer Colgate
1930
Edmund MacDonald
1923
1930
J.P. Henderson
1931
Reverend Graham Drake
1923
Hickory Ellins
1932
Hickory Ellins
1931
Hickory Ellins
1932
Hickory Ellins
1932
Jim Carew
1916
Attorney for the Defense
1932
John Hardin
1929
Maddocks
1930
Insp. Richardson
1922
Mr. Ellins
1931
Trent
1931
Jim Carson
1916
Uncle Lester
1925
Mr. Hutson
1931
Crusty
1933
Judge Frank Sturgis
1920
Mr. Filbert
1928
J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
1932
John J. Caldwell
1926
Le Fong
1931
Capt. Bill Houston
1931
Himself
1933
Uncle Howard
1927
Brad Martin
1932
Colonel Shelby
1932
Charles Bryant
1919
Hobart Richards
1924
Hastings
1928
Captain Thomas
1930
Jim Keefe
1929
Eddy
1929
Innkeeper
1924
Daniel Gaynor
1916
1915
William Holden
1928
J.C. Trevor
1934
Thorpe
1929
1931
1918
1919
