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 | Beloved | Maj. Tarrant | 1934-01-22 |
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 | Return of the Terror | Editor | 1934-07-07 |
Movie | Treasure Island | Pirate of the Spanish Main | 1934-08-17 |
Movie | Lost in the Stratosphere | Col. Brooks | 1934-11-14 |
Movie | Laughing at Life | Cabinet Officer | 1933-07-12 |
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 | How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points | 1933-08-04 | |
Movie | A Man of Sentiment | John Russell Sr. | 1933-09-15 |
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 | The Match King | Olaf Christofsen | 1932-12-31 |
Movie | Alias Mary Smith | Mr. Hayes | 1932-07-14 |
Movie | Madame Butterfly | Cho-Cho's Grandfather | 1932-12-30 |
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 | Drifting Souls | Brad Martin | 1932-08-07 |
Movie | Defenders of the Law | Capt. Bill Houston | 1931-05-23 |
Movie | The Good Bad Girl | J.P. Henderson | 1931-05-20 |
Movie | The Painted Desert | Judge Matthews | 1931-01-18 |
Movie | Millie | Defense Attorney | 1931-02-06 |
Movie | Chinatown After Dark | Le Fong | 1931-10-15 |
Movie | Mata Hari | Warden | 1931-12-26 |
Movie | Platinum Blonde | Conroy | 1931-10-31 |
Movie | The Public Defender | Frank Wells | 1931-08-01 |
Movie | Morals for Women | Mr. Hutson | 1931-10-24 |
Movie | Rough Waters | Captain Thomas | 1930-06-06 |
Movie | The Czar of Broadway | 1930-05-25 | |
Movie | Hold Everything | Pop O'Keefe | 1930-03-20 |
Movie | The Sea Bat | Maddocks | 1930-07-05 |
Movie | All Quiet on the Western Front | Herr Meyer | 1930-04-29 |
Movie | Bright Lights | Franklin Harris | 1930-09-21 |
Movie | Tol'able David | Hunter Kinemon | 1930-11-15 |
Movie | Kismet | Jawan | 1930-10-30 |
Movie | Playboy of Paris | General de Karodek | 1930-10-18 |
Movie | Top Speed | Spencer Colgate | 1930-08-24 |
Movie | Sonny Boy | Thorpe | 1929-04-18 |
Movie | Fancy Baggage | John Hardin | 1929-01-26 |
Movie | Girl Overboard | Jim Keefe | 1929-07-28 |
Movie | Finders Keepers | Hastings | 1928-02-18 |
Movie | Burning Daylight | John Dossett | 1928-03-10 |
Movie | The Haunted House | Uncle Herbert | 1928-11-04 |
Movie | Conquest | William Holden | 1928-12-22 |
Movie | On Trial | Judge | 1928-12-01 |
Movie | The Brown Derby | John J. Caldwell | 1926-07-04 |
Movie | The Highbinders | Mike Harrigan | 1926-03-21 |
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 | Restless Wives | Hobart Richards | 1924-01-06 |
Movie | Damaged Hearts | Innkeeper | 1924-02-21 |
Movie | The Sixth Commandment | Col. Saunders | 1924-06-01 |
Movie | Luck | Alan Crosby | 1923-03-01 |
Movie | Bright Lights of Broadway | Reverend Graham Drake | 1923-08-06 |
Movie | Beyond the Rainbow | Insp. Richardson | 1922-02-19 |
Movie | Burn 'Em Up Barnes | King Cole | 1921-08-01 |