Edmund Breese

ActorWriter Jun 17 (died age 64) Brooklyn, New York, USA 1914–1935 (21 year career)

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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 Lo…

Known For

Film

All Quiet on the Western Front

Herr Meyer

Film

Duck Soup

Zander

Film

Treasure Island

Pirate of the Spanish Main

Film

Platinum Blonde

Conroy

Film

Mata Hari

Warden

Film

Female

Board Member (Uncredited)

Film

The Cabin in the Cotton

Holmes Scott

Film

Broadway Bill

Presiding Judge

Filmography

Acting (118)

Movies (118)

The Marriage Bargain

1935

as Judge Robert Stanhope

Come On, Marines!

1934

as General Cabot

4.5

Lost in the Stratosphere

1934

as Col. Brooks

4.2

Treasure Island

1934

as Pirate of the Spanish Main

6.5

Beloved

1934

as Maj. Tarrant

Broadway Bill

as Presiding Judge

Return of the Terror

as Editor

Dancing Man

as J.C. Trevor

Fighting With Kit Carson

1933

as Matt Fargo

6.0

Torchy Turns Turtle

1933

as Mr. Ellins

Only Yesterday

1933

as Investor (Uncredited)

6.8

Female

1933

as Board Member (Uncredited)

Duck Soup

as Zander

Laughing at Life

as Cabinet Officer

On Your Guard

as Prison Warden

Ladies Must Love

as Thomas Van Dyne

Above the Clouds

as Crusty

International House

as Doctor Wong

Trying Out Torchy

as Mr. Ellins

Torchy's Kitty Coup

1933

as Edward (Hickory) Ellins

How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points

1933

as Himself

The Billion Dollar Scandal

1933

as Mr. Haddock

A Man of Sentiment

1933

as John Russell Sr.

Torchy Raises the Auntie

1932

as Mr. Ellins

Torchy Turns the Trick

1932

as Hickory Ellins

Alias Mary Smith

1932

as Mr. Hayes

5.0

Torchy's Busy Day

1932

as Hickory Ellins

Love Bound

1932

as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison

3.6

Madame Butterfly

1932

as Cho-Cho's Grandfather

As You Desire Me

as Friar

The Match King

as Olaf Christofsen

The Hatchet Man

as Yu Chang

Torchy's Two Toots

as Hickory Ellins

Young Bride

1932

as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker

3.6

The Cabin in the Cotton

as Holmes Scott

Cross-Examination

as Dwight Simpson

The Hurricane Express

1932

as The Secretary's Father

The Reckoning

as Doc

The Golden West

as Sam Lynch

Police Court

as Judge Robert Webster

5.0

Drifting Souls

1932

as Brad Martin

Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure

1932

as Colonel Shelby

Women Won't Tell

1932

as Attorney for the Defense

4.0

Torchy's Night Cap

1932

as Hickory Ellins

Torchy Rolls His Own

1932

as Mr. Ellins

Defenders of the Law

1931

as Capt. Bill Houston

The Public Defender

as Frank Wells

Mata Hari

as Warden

Platinum Blonde

as Conroy

Torchy

as Hickory Ellins

Torchy Passes the Buck

1931

as Mr. Ellins

Young Sinners

1931

as Trent

Morals for Women

as Mr. Hutson

The Good Bad Girl

as J.P. Henderson

Millie

as Defense Attorney

The She-Wolf

The Painted Desert

as Judge Matthews

Chinatown After Dark

as Le Fong

The Czar of Broadway

All Quiet on the Western Front

as Herr Meyer

Kismet

as Jawan

Top Speed

as Spencer Colgate

Hold Everything

as Pop O'Keefe

Playboy of Paris

as General de Karodek

7.0

Tol'able David

1930

as Hunter Kinemon

7.0

Chiselers of Hollywood

Bright Lights

as Franklin Harris

The Sea Bat

as Maddocks

Rough Waters

as Captain Thomas

In the Headlines

1929

as Eddy

Sonny Boy

1929

as Thorpe

Girls Gone Wild

1929

as Judge Elliott

Girl Overboard

1929

as Jim Keefe

Fancy Baggage

1929

as John Hardin

The Hottentot

1929

as Ollie

The Haunted House

1928

as Uncle Herbert

Conquest

1928

as William Holden

Finders Keepers

1928

as Hastings

On Trial

1928

as Judge

6.0

The Perfect Crime

1928

as Wilmot

Burning Daylight

1928

as John Dossett

4.3

The Wright Idea

1928

as Mr. Filbert

Back to Liberty

1927

as Tom Devon

Paradise for Two

1927

as Uncle Howard

Home Made

1927

as Mr. Tilford

The Highbinders

1926

as Mike Harrigan

Stepping Along

1926

as Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky

The Brown Derby

as John J. Caldwell

Womanhandled

as Uncle Lester

Wildfire

as Sen. Woodhurst

The Early Bird

1925

as The Great La Tour

The Live Wire

1925

as Sawdust Sam

Restless Wives

1924

as Hobart Richards

The Sixth Commandment

1924

as Col. Saunders

3.3

Damaged Hearts

1924

as Innkeeper

Those Who Judge

1924

as Henry Dawson

The Speed Spook

1924

as Chuck Brady

3.0

Marriage Morals

1923

as Harry's Father

Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers

1923

as Edmund MacDonald

The Fair Cheat

1923

as Morgan Van Dam

Luck

1923

as Alan Crosby

7.0

Three O'Clock in the Morning

1923

as Mr. Winthrop

Bright Lights of Broadway

1923

as Reverend Graham Drake

Beyond the Rainbow

1922

as Insp. Richardson

Sure-Fire Flint

1922

as Johnny Jetts

The Curse of Drink

1922

as John Rand

Burn 'Em Up Barnes

1921

as King Cole

3.0

A Common Level

1920

as Matthew Ryan

Chains of Evidence

1920

as Judge Frank Sturgis

His Temporary Wife

1920

as Judge Laton

Someone Must Pay

1919

as Charles Bryant

An Honorable Cad

1919

The Master Crook

1918

The Weakness of Strength

1916

as Daniel Gaynor

The Spell of the Yukon

1916

as Jim Carson

The Lure of Heart's Desire

1916

as Jim Carew

The Song of the Wage Slave

1915

The Master Mind

1914

as Richard Allen

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

A Man's Home

1921

Theatre Play