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.
Movie | Broadway Bill | Presiding Judge | 1934-11-30 |
Movie | Come On, Marines! | General Cabot | 1934-03-23 |
Movie | Dancing Man | J.C. Trevor | 1934-02-24 |
Movie | Treasure Island | Pirate of the Spanish Main | 1934-08-17 |
Movie | Lost in the Stratosphere | Col. Brooks | 1934-11-14 |
Movie | Fighting With Kit Carson | Matt Fargo | 1933-07-01 |
Movie | International House | Doctor Wong | 1933-05-27 |
Movie | On Your Guard | Prison Warden | 1933-01-31 |
Movie | A Man of Sentiment | John Russell Sr. | 1933-09-15 |
Movie | Laughing at Life | Cabinet Officer | 1933-07-12 |
Movie | Above the Clouds | Crusty | 1933-12-13 |
Movie | Female | Board Member (Uncredited) | 1933-11-11 |
Movie | Duck Soup | Zander | 1933-11-12 |
Movie | Only Yesterday | Investor (Uncredited) | 1933-11-01 |
Movie | Love Bound | J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison | 1932-03-01 |
Movie | Young Bride | Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker | 1932-04-08 |
Movie | Police Court | Judge Robert Webster | 1932-02-19 |
Movie | The Hatchet Man | Yu Chang | 1932-02-06 |
Movie | As You Desire Me | Friar | 1932-05-28 |
Movie | Cross-Examination | Dwight Simpson | 1932-02-13 |
Movie | The Reckoning | Doc | 1932-02-15 |
Movie | Madame Butterfly | Cho-Cho's Grandfather | 1932-12-30 |
Movie | Alias Mary Smith | Mr. Hayes | 1932-07-14 |
Movie | The Match King | Olaf Christofsen | 1932-12-31 |
Movie | The Golden West | Sam Lynch | 1932-10-29 |
Movie | Women Won't Tell | Attorney for the Defense | 1932-11-16 |
Movie | The Cabin in the Cotton | Holmes Scott | 1932-09-26 |
Movie | The Hurricane Express | The Secretary's Father | 1932-08-01 |
Movie | The Good Bad Girl | J.P. Henderson | 1931-05-20 |
Movie | Millie | Defense Attorney | 1931-02-06 |
Movie | The Painted Desert | Judge Matthews | 1931-01-18 |
Movie | Defenders of the Law | Capt. Bill Houston | 1931-05-23 |
Movie | Mata Hari | Warden | 1931-12-26 |
Movie | The Public Defender | Frank Wells | 1931-08-01 |
Movie | Morals for Women | Mr. Hutson | 1931-10-24 |
Movie | Platinum Blonde | Conroy | 1931-10-31 |
Movie | Chinatown After Dark | Le Fong | 1931-10-15 |
Movie | Rough Waters | Captain Thomas | 1930-06-06 |
Movie | The Czar of Broadway | 1930-05-25 | |
Movie | The Sea Bat | Maddocks | 1930-07-05 |
Movie | Hold Everything | Pop O'Keefe | 1930-03-20 |
Movie | All Quiet on the Western Front | Herr Meyer | 1930-04-29 |
Movie | Tol'able David | Hunter Kinemon | 1930-11-15 |
Movie | Top Speed | Spencer Colgate | 1930-08-24 |
Movie | Kismet | Jawan | 1930-10-30 |
Movie | Playboy of Paris | General de Karodek | 1930-10-18 |
Movie | Bright Lights | Franklin Harris | 1930-09-21 |
Movie | Fancy Baggage | John Hardin | 1929-01-26 |
Movie | Finders Keepers | Hastings | 1928-02-18 |
Movie | On Trial | Judge | 1928-12-01 |
Movie | Conquest | William Holden | 1928-12-22 |
Movie | The Brown Derby | John J. Caldwell | 1926-07-04 |
Movie | Stepping Along | Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky | 1926-11-14 |
Movie | The Live Wire | Sawdust Sam | 1925-09-20 |
Movie | Womanhandled | Uncle Lester | 1925-12-27 |
Movie | The Sixth Commandment | Col. Saunders | 1924-06-01 |
Movie | Beyond the Rainbow | Insp. Richardson | 1922-02-19 |
Movie | Burn 'Em Up Barnes | King Cole | 1921-08-01 |
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