Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 17, 1871
Died
Apr 06, 1936
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Credits
119 titles
Edmund Breese
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 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.
Known For
Filmography
The Marriage Bargain
Judge Robert Stanhope
Broadway Bill
Presiding Judge
Lost in the Stratosphere
Col. Brooks
Treasure Island
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Return of the Terror
Editor
Come On, Marines!
General Cabot
Dancing Man
J.C. Trevor
Beloved
Maj. Tarrant
Above the Clouds
Crusty
Duck Soup
Zander
Female
Board Member (Uncredited)
Only Yesterday
Investor (Uncredited)
Ladies Must Love
Thomas Van Dyne
A Man of Sentiment
John Russell Sr.
Trying Out Torchy
Mr. Ellins
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
Himself
Laughing at Life
Cabinet Officer
Fighting With Kit Carson
Matt Fargo
International House
Doctor Wong
Torchy Turns Turtle
Mr. Ellins
On Your Guard
Prison Warden
Torchy's Kitty Coup
Edward (Hickory) Ellins
The Billion Dollar Scandal
Mr. Haddock
The Match King
Olaf Christofsen
Madame Butterfly
Cho-cho San's Grandfather
Women Won't Tell
Attorney for the Defense
The Golden West
Sam Lynch
Torchy Rolls His Own
Mr. Ellins
Torchy's Busy Day
Hickory Ellins
The Cabin in the Cotton
Holmes Scott
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
Colonel Shelby
Drifting Souls
Brad Martin
The Hurricane Express
The Secretary's Father
Alias Mary Smith
Mr. Hayes
Torchy's Two Toots
Hickory Ellins
As You Desire Me
Friar
Torchy Raises the Auntie
Mr. Ellins
Young Bride
Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
Torchy's Night Cap
Hickory Ellins
Love Bound
J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
Police Court
Judge Robert Webster
The Reckoning
Doc
Cross-Examination
Dwight Simpson
Torchy Turns the Trick
Hickory Ellins
The Hatchet Man
Yu Chang
Mata Hari
Warden
Torchy Passes the Buck
Mr. Ellins
Platinum Blonde
Conroy
Morals for Women
Mr. Hutson
Chinatown After Dark
Le Fong