Edmund Breese
Known for: Acting
Born: June 17, 1871
Died: April 6, 1936
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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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Filmography
119 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
8.0
The Marriage Bargain
1935
6.0
Broadway Bill
1934
4.9
Lost in the Stratosphere
1934
6.5
Treasure Island
1934
6.5
Return of the Terror
1934
5.6
Come On, Marines!
1934
6.5
Dancing Man
1934
9.0
Beloved
1934
6.5
Above the Clouds
1933
7.3
Duck Soup
1933
6.3
Female
1933
7.1
Only Yesterday
1933
8.0
Ladies Must Love
1933
7.0
A Man of Sentiment
1933NR
Trying Out Torchy
19336.5
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
1933
7.3
Laughing at Life
1933
6.5
Fighting With Kit Carson
1933
5.6
International House
19338.0
Torchy Turns Turtle
1933
6.7
On Your Guard
19338.0
Torchy's Kitty Coup
1933
NR
The Billion Dollar Scandal
1933
6.7
The Match King
1932
5.4
Madame Butterfly
1932
7.0
Women Won't Tell
1932
5.5
The Golden West
19327.0
Torchy Rolls His Own
193210.0
Torchy's Busy Day
1932
6.3
The Cabin in the Cotton
19328.0
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
1932
10.0
Drifting Souls
1932
5.4
The Hurricane Express
1932
6.0
Alias Mary Smith
19327.0
Torchy's Two Toots
1932
6.4
As You Desire Me
19327.0
Torchy Raises the Auntie
1932
4.2
Young Bride
193210.0
Torchy's Night Cap
1932
4.0
Love Bound
1932
5.8
Police Court
1932
4.7
The Reckoning
1932
5.1
Cross-Examination
19329.0
Torchy Turns the Trick
1932
5.4
The Hatchet Man
1932
6.2
Mata Hari
1931NR
Torchy Passes the Buck
1931
6.7
Platinum Blonde
1931
4.1
Morals for Women
1931
4.1
Chinatown After Dark
1931NR
Torchy
1931
6.4
The Public Defender
1931
7.0
Defenders of the Law
1931
6.5
The Good Bad Girl
1931
9.0
Young Sinners
1931
8.0
The She-Wolf
1931
5.3
Millie
1931
5.2
The Painted Desert
1931
10.0
Chiselers of Hollywood
1930
8.5
Tol'able David
1930
4.0
Kismet
1930
7.0
Playboy of Paris
1930
5.2
Bright Lights
1930
6.0
Top Speed
1930
4.4
The Sea Bat
1930
9.0
Rough Waters
1930
9.0
The Czar of Broadway
1930
7.8
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930
8.0
Hold Everything
1930
10.0
In the Headlines
1929
7.0
The Hottentot
1929
9.0
Girl Overboard
1929
7.0
Sonny Boy
1929
9.0
Girls Gone Wild
1929
10.0
Fancy Baggage
1929
8.0
Conquest
1928
7.0
On Trial
1928
7.0
The Haunted House
1928
10.0
The Wright Idea
1928
9.0
The Perfect Crime
1928
5.4
Burning Daylight
1928
8.0
Finders Keepers
1928
7.0
Home Made
1927
7.0
Back to Liberty
1927
9.0
Paradise for Two
1927
10.0
Stepping Along
1926
6.5
The Brown Derby
192610.0
The Highbinders
1926
7.0
Womanhandled
1925
8.0
The Live Wire
19257.0
Wildfire
19257.0
The Early Bird
1925
10.0
Those Who Judge
1924
6.0
The Speed Spook
1924
4.8
The Sixth Commandment
1924
8.0
Damaged Hearts
19249.0
Restless Wives
1924
7.0
Three O'Clock in the Morning
1923
9.0
The Fair Cheat
1923
7.0
Marriage Morals
1923
10.0
Bright Lights of Broadway
1923
8.0
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
1923
8.5
Luck
1923
7.0
The Curse of Drink
1922
10.0
Sure-Fire Flint
1922
9.0
Beyond the Rainbow
1922
7.0
A Man's Home
1921
5.0
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
1921
8.0
A Common Level
1920
8.0
Chains of Evidence
1920
NR
His Temporary Wife
1920
10.0
Someone Must Pay
19197.0
An Honorable Cad
1919
NR
The Master Crook
1918
NR
The Weakness of Strength
1916
NR
The Spell of the Yukon
1916
NR
The Lure of Heart's Desire
1916
NR
The Song of the Wage Slave
1915
NR
The Master Mind
1914