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Edmund Breese
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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 Wester…
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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.
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Edmund Breese's Filmography
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No Poster
The Marriage Bargain
as Judge Robert Stanhope
Broadway Bill
as Presiding Judge
Lost in the Stratosphere
as Col. Brooks
Treasure Island
as Pirate of the Spanish Main
Return of the Terror
as Editor
Come On, Marines!
as General Cabot
Dancing Man
as J.C. Trevor
Beloved
as Maj. Tarrant
Above the Clouds
as Crusty
Duck Soup
as Zander
Female
as Board Member (Uncredited)
Only Yesterday
as Investor (Uncredited)
Ladies Must Love
as Thomas Van Dyne
A Man of Sentiment
as John Russell Sr.
No Poster
Trying Out Torchy
as Mr. Ellins
No Poster
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
as Himself
Laughing at Life
as Cabinet Officer
Fighting With Kit Carson
as Matt Fargo
International House
as Doctor Wong
No Poster
Torchy Turns Turtle
as Mr. Ellins
On Your Guard
as Prison Warden
No Poster
Torchy's Kitty Coup
as Edward (Hickory) Ellins
The Billion Dollar Scandal
as Mr. Haddock
The Match King
as Olaf Christofsen
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-cho San's Grandfather
Women Won't Tell
as Attorney for the Defense
The Golden West
as Sam Lynch
No Poster
Torchy Rolls His Own
as Mr. Ellins
No Poster
Torchy's Busy Day
as Hickory Ellins
The Cabin in the Cotton
as Holmes Scott
No Poster
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
as Colonel Shelby
Drifting Souls
as Brad Martin
The Hurricane Express
as The Secretary's Father
Alias Mary Smith
as Mr. Hayes
No Poster
Torchy's Two Toots
as Hickory Ellins
As You Desire Me
as Friar
No Poster
Torchy Raises the Auntie
as Mr. Ellins
Young Bride
as Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
No Poster
Torchy's Night Cap
as Hickory Ellins
Love Bound
as J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
Police Court
as Judge Robert Webster
The Reckoning
as Doc
Cross-Examination
as Dwight Simpson
No Poster
Torchy Turns the Trick
as Hickory Ellins
The Hatchet Man
as Yu Chang
Mata Hari
as Warden
No Poster
Torchy Passes the Buck
as Mr. Ellins
Platinum Blonde
as Conroy
Morals for Women
as Mr. Hutson
Chinatown After Dark
as Le Fong
No Poster
Torchy
as Hickory Ellins
The Public Defender
as Frank Wells
Defenders of the Law
as Capt. Bill Houston
The Good Bad Girl
as J.P. Henderson
Young Sinners
as Trent
The She-Wolf
Millie
as Defense Attorney
The Painted Desert
as Judge Matthews
Chiselers of Hollywood
Tol'able David
as Hunter Kinemon
Kismet
as Jawan
Playboy of Paris
as General de Karodek
Bright Lights
as Franklin Harris
Top Speed
as Spencer Colgate
The Sea Bat
as Maddocks
Rough Waters
as Captain Thomas
The Czar of Broadway
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Herr Meyer
Hold Everything
as Pop O'Keefe
In the Headlines
as Eddy
The Hottentot
as Ollie
Girl Overboard
as Jim Keefe
Sonny Boy
as Thorpe
Girls Gone Wild
as Judge Elliott
Fancy Baggage
as John Hardin
Conquest
as William Holden
On Trial
as Judge
The Haunted House
as Uncle Herbert
The Wright Idea
as Mr. Filbert
The Perfect Crime
as Wilmot
Burning Daylight
as John Dossett
Finders Keepers
as Hastings
Home Made
as Mr. Tilford
Back to Liberty
as Tom Devon
Paradise for Two
as Uncle Howard
Stepping Along
as Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
The Brown Derby
as John J. Caldwell
No Poster
The Highbinders
as Mike Harrigan
Womanhandled
as Uncle Lester
The Live Wire
as Sawdust Sam
No Poster
Wildfire
as Sen. Woodhurst
No Poster
The Early Bird
as The Great La Tour
Those Who Judge
as Henry Dawson
The Speed Spook
as Chuck Brady
The Sixth Commandment
as Col. Saunders
Damaged Hearts
as Innkeeper
No Poster
Restless Wives
as Hobart Richards
Three O'Clock in the Morning
as Mr. Winthrop
The Fair Cheat
as Morgan Van Dam
Marriage Morals
as Harry's Father
Bright Lights of Broadway
as Reverend Graham Drake
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
as Edmund MacDonald
Luck
as Alan Crosby
The Curse of Drink
as John Rand
Sure-Fire Flint
as Johnny Jetts
Beyond the Rainbow
as Insp. Richardson
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
as King Cole
A Common Level
as Matthew Ryan
Chains of Evidence
as Judge Frank Sturgis
His Temporary Wife
as Judge Laton
Someone Must Pay
as Charles Bryant
No Poster
An Honorable Cad
The Master Crook
The Weakness of Strength
as Daniel Gaynor
The Spell of the Yukon
as Jim Carson
The Lure of Heart's Desire
as Jim Carew
The Song of the Wage Slave
The Master Mind
as Richard Allen