Edmund Breese
Edmund Breese was an American stage and film actor of the silent era.
Biography
Breese was born in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Renshaw Breese and Josephine Busby.
The Opera House in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, was the site of Breese's stage debut in the summer of 1895. He portrayed Adonis Evergreen in My Awful Dad.
Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering films, Breese appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo, The Lion and the Mouse with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree with Helen Ware, The Master Mind with Elliott Dexter, the popular World War I era play Why Marry? with Estelle Winwood & Nat C. Goodwin and So This Is London with Donald Gallaher. He also acted in a stock company at the Castle Square Theatre in Boston.
Breese's film career began in 1914 with the Edison Studios. He appeared in more than 120 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, from which he died on April 6, 1936 at the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled. Funeral services were at the Church of the Transfiguration in New York City on April 8, 1936, after which his body was cremated.
Breese's first wife was Genevieve Landry. At the time of his death, he was married to Harriet Beach.
Selected filmography
The Master Mind as Richard AllenThe Walls of Jericho as Jack FrobisherThe Shooting of Dan McGrew as Jim MaxwellThe Song of the Wage Slave as Ned LaneThe Lure of Heart's Desire as Jim CarewThe Spell of the Yukon as Jim CarsonThe Weakness of Strength as Daniel GaynorSomeone Must Pay His Temporary Wife as Judge LatonChains of Evidence as Judge Frank SturgisA Common Level as Matthew RyanBurn 'Em Up Barnes as King ColeBeyond the Rainbow as Insp. RichardsonSure Fire Flint as Johnny JettsThe Curse of Drink as John RandJacqueline as Edmund MacDonaldLuck as Alan CrosbyThe Little Red Schoolhouse as BrentYou Are Guilty as Judge ElkinsBright Lights of Broadway as Reverend Graham DrakeMarriage Morals as Harry's FatherThe Fair Cheat as Morgan Van DamThree O'Clock in the Morning as Mr. WinthropRestless Wives as Hobart RichardsDamaged Hearts as InnkeeperThe Sixth Commandment as Col. SaundersThe Speed Spook as Chuck BradyThose Who Judge as Henry DawsonPlaythings of Desire as Governor CabbotThe Early Bird as The Great La TourWildfire as Sen. WoodhurstThe Police Patrol as Tony RoccoThe Live Wire as Sawdust SamWomanhandled as Uncle LesterThe Highbinders as Mike HarriganThe Brown Derby as John J. CaldwellStepping Along as Prince Ferdinand DarowitskyParadise for Two as Uncle HowardBack to Liberty as Tom Devon / Reginald BriandHome Made as Mr. TilfordFinders Keepers as Col. HastingsBurning Daylight as John DossettThe Perfect Crime as WilmotThe Wright Idea as Mr. FilbertThe Haunted House as Uncle HerbertOn Trial as JudgeConquest as William HoldenFancy Baggage as John HardinSonny Boy as ThorpeGirls Gone Wild as Judge ElliottFrom Headquarters as Bit Part The Gamblers as Bit Part Girl Overboard as Jim KeefeThe Hottentot as OllieIn the Headlines as EddyHold Everything as Pop O'KeefeAll Quiet on the Western Front as Herr Meyer, the Stammtisch speakerThe Czar of Broadway as McNabRough Waters as Captain ThomasThe Sea Bat as MaddocksTop Speed as Spencer ColgateBright Lights as HarrisPlayboy of Paris as General Kismet as JawanTol'able David as Hunter KinemonPlaythings of Hollywood as Unknown RoleThe Painted Desert as Judge MatthewsThe Last Parade as City Editor Millie as Defense AttorneyThe She-Wolf as William RemingtonYoung Sinners as TrentThe Good Bad Girl as Mr. J.P. HendersonDefenders of the Law as Police Commander RandallThe Public Defender as Frank WellsWicked Chinatown After Dark as Le FongPlatinum Blonde as Conroy - the EditorMorals for Women as Mr. HustonMata Hari as WardenThe Hatchet Man as Yu ChangCross-Examination as Dwight Simpson - Prosecuting AttorneyThe Reckoning as DocPolice Court as Judge Robert WebsterLove Bound as J.B. 'Lucky' MorrisonYoung Bride as Mr. C. B. Chadwick, the BrokerAs You Desire Me as Friar Alias Mary Smith as FatherThe Hurricane Express as Frank StrattonDrifting Souls as Brad MartinThe Cabin in the Cotton as Holmes ScottThe Golden West as Sam LynchWomen Won't Tell as Attorney for the DefenseMadame Butterfly as Cho-Cho's grandfatherThe Match King as Olaf ChristofsenThe Billion Dollar Scandal as HaddockInternational House as Dr. WongFighting with Kit Carson as Matt Fargo Laughing at Life as Cabinet OfficerThe Stranger's Return as Dr. Craig A Man of Sentiment as John Russell Sr.Ladies Must Love as Thomas Van DyneOnly Yesterday as Wall Street InvestorFemale as Board Member Duck Soup as Former President Zander, Firefly's predecessorAbove the Clouds as CrustyOn Your Guard as Prison WardenBeloved as Maj. TarrantDancing Man as J.C. TrevorCome On, Marines! as Gen. CabotReturn of the Terror as EditorTreasure Island as Pirate of the Spanish MainThe Law of the Wild as Dr. R.N. Price Lost in the Stratosphere as Col. BrooksBroadway Bill as Presiding JudgeThe Marriage Bargain as Judge Robert Stanhope