1882-12-11 ( 142 years old ) in Hamilton, Scotland, UK
Edmund Breon (12 December 1882 – 24 June 1953) was a Scottish film and stage actor. He appeared in 131 films between 1907 and 1952.
Born Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, he began in John Hare's touring company and later played on the West End stage and in Glasgow, gaining prominence. According to his grandson, Breon "started out at the turn of the century doing silent pictures in France. Vampire movies", so it is reasonably certain that MacLaverty is indeed the actor who appeared under the name Edmond Bréon in many Gaumont films 1907-1922 including, most famously, playing the part of Inspector Juve for Louis Feuillade in the ground-breaking Fantômas series. He did also appear in a small part in the 1915-1916 Feuillade series Les vampires, although this is not, as his grandson supposes, a horror film.
He returned to Britain where he made the film A Little Bit of Fluff (1928), then went to Canada in 1929 and worked on the land.
A year later he emigrated to the United States and gained his first big American film part in The Dawn Patrol (1930). Breon appeared in a mixture of British and American films over the following two decades. He also appeared on stage in the West End production of the comedy Spring Meeting in 1938.
A 1949 newspaper article noted that Breon's "career has been interrupted by serious illness and an accident which kept him idle for two years."
Breon died in his native Scotland on June 24, 1953.
Movies
At Sword's Point
1952-04-22
The Thing from Another World
1951-04-05
Challenge to Lassie
1949-10-31
Rope of Sand
1949-08-03
Enchantment
1948-12-25
Hills of Home
1948-11-25
Forever Amber
1947-10-10
The Imperfect Lady
1946-11-29
Dressed to Kill
1946-05-24
Devotion
1946-04-05
Saratoga Trunk
1945-11-21
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945-01-19
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944-11-02
The Woman in the Window
1944-10-25
Casanova Brown
1944-08-23
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944-05-11
The Hour Before the Dawn
1944-05-10
Gaslight
1944-05-04
The Lodger
1944-01-19
It Happened to One Man
1940-10-12
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939-07-28
The Outsider
1939-01-30
Luck of the Navy
1938-11-27
Almost a Honeymoon
1938-11-14
Crackerjack
1938-10-01
Dangerous Medicine
1938-07-23
A Yank at Oxford
1938-02-18
Owd Bob
1938-01-26
Keep Fit
1937-07-31
Love in Exile
1936-12-09
The Divine Spark
1935-06-01
Night Mail
1935-05-01
She Shall Have Music
1935-04-14
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934-12-20
Mister Cinders
1934-01-01
The Private Life of Don Juan
1934-01-01
Three Men in a Boat
1933-04-30
No Funny Business
1933-03-30
Leap Year
1932-10-11
Wedding Rehearsal
1932-10-01
Women Who Play
1932-03-01
I Like Your Nerve
1931-09-12
Chances
1931-07-18
Born to Love
1931-04-17
Uneasy Virtue
1931-02-05
The Love Habit
1931-01-16
On Approval
1930-08-26
The Dawn Patrol
1930-07-10
A Little Bit of Fluff
1928-07-28
L'écuyère
1922-09-15
Severo Torelli
1914-05-15
At the Hour of Dawn
1914-04-04
Le jocond
1914-03-13
L'hôtel de la gare
1914-02-10
Bout-de-Zan et le lion
1913-11-01
The Agony of Byzantium
1913-10-24
Fantômas
1913-05-09
A Race for Millions
1912-12-13
La cassette de l'émigrée
1912-05-01
The Fault of Another
1910-12-02
Monsieur Wants to Get Married
1910-10-07
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
1910-02-27
André Chénier
1910-02-06
The Beggar's Christmas
1910-01-01
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