Edmund Breese

from Brooklyn, New York, USA

Artwork for All Quiet on the Western FrontImage of 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.

Timeline

1935Aged 64

1934Aged 63

  • Poster for Beloved

    Maj. Tarrant

  • Poster for Dancing Man

    J.C. Trevor

  • Poster for Come On, Marines!

    General Cabot

  • Poster for Return of the Terror

    Editor

  • Poster for Treasure Island

    Pirate of the Spanish Main

  • Poster for Lost in the Stratosphere

    Col. Brooks

  • Poster for Broadway Bill

    Presiding Judge

1933Aged 62

1932Aged 61

1931Aged 60

  • Poster for The Painted Desert

    Judge Matthews

  • Poster for Millie

    Defense Attorney

  • Poster for The She-Wolf

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Young Sinners

    Trent

  • Poster for The Good Bad Girl

    J.P. Henderson

  • Poster for Defenders of the Law

    Capt. Bill Houston

  • Poster for The Public Defender

    Frank Wells

  • Torchy

    Hickory Ellins

  • Poster for Chinatown After Dark

    Le Fong

  • Poster for Morals for Women

    Mr. Hutson

  • Poster for Platinum Blonde

    Conroy

  • Torchy Passes the Buck

    Mr. Ellins

  • Poster for Mata Hari

    Warden

1930Aged 59

  • Poster for Hold Everything

    Pop O'Keefe

  • Poster for All Quiet on the Western Front

    Herr Meyer

  • Poster for The Czar of Broadway

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Rough Waters

    Captain Thomas

  • Poster for The Sea Bat

    Maddocks

  • Poster for Top Speed

    Spencer Colgate

  • Poster for Bright Lights

    Franklin Harris

  • Poster for Playboy of Paris

    General de Karodek

  • Poster for Kismet

    Jawan

  • Poster for Tol'able David

    Hunter Kinemon

  • Poster for Chiselers of Hollywood

    (Unknown)

1929Aged 58

  • Poster for Fancy Baggage

    John Hardin

  • Poster for Girls Gone Wild

    Judge Elliott

  • Poster for Sonny Boy

    Thorpe

  • Poster for Girl Overboard

    Jim Keefe

  • Poster for The Hottentot

    Ollie

  • Poster for In the Headlines

    Eddy

1928Aged 57

  • Poster for Finders Keepers

    Hastings

  • Poster for Burning Daylight

    John Dossett

  • Poster for The Perfect Crime

    Wilmot

  • Poster for The Wright Idea

    Mr. Filbert

  • Poster for The Haunted House

    Uncle Herbert

  • Poster for On Trial

    Judge

  • Poster for Conquest

    William Holden

1927Aged 56

  • Poster for Paradise for Two

    Uncle Howard

  • Poster for Back to Liberty

    Tom Devon

  • Poster for Home Made

    Mr. Tilford

1926Aged 55

1925Aged 54

1924Aged 53

  • Restless Wives

    Hobart Richards

  • Poster for Damaged Hearts

    Innkeeper

  • Poster for The Sixth Commandment

    Col. Saunders

  • Poster for The Speed Spook

    Chuck Brady

  • Poster for Those Who Judge

    Henry Dawson

1923Aged 52

  • Poster for Luck

    Alan Crosby

  • Poster for Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers

    Edmund MacDonald

  • Poster for Bright Lights of Broadway

    Reverend Graham Drake

  • Poster for Marriage Morals

    Harry's Father

  • Poster for The Fair Cheat

    Morgan Van Dam

  • Poster for Three O'Clock in the Morning

    Mr. Winthrop

1922Aged 51

  • Poster for Beyond the Rainbow

    Insp. Richardson

  • Poster for Sure-Fire Flint

    Johnny Jetts

  • Poster for The Curse of Drink

    John Rand

1921Aged 50

  • Poster for Burn 'Em Up Barnes

    King Cole

  • Poster for A Man's Home

    Theatre Play

1920Aged 49

  • Poster for His Temporary Wife

    Judge Laton

  • Poster for Chains of Evidence

    Judge Frank Sturgis

  • Poster for A Common Level

    Matthew Ryan

1919Aged 48

1918Aged 47

  • Poster for The Master Crook

    (Unknown)

1916Aged 45

  • Poster for The Lure of Heart's Desire

    Jim Carew

  • Poster for The Spell of the Yukon

    Jim Carson

  • Poster for The Weakness of Strength

    Daniel Gaynor

1915Aged 44

  • Poster for The Song of the Wage Slave

    (Unknown)

1914Aged 43

  • Poster for The Master Mind

    Richard Allen