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.
Acting (91 movies)
Duck Soup
1933
Finders Keepers
1928
Burning Daylight
1928
Platinum Blonde
1931
Sonny Boy
1929
Young Sinners
1931
Paradise for Two
1927
Return of the Terror
1934
The Perfect Crime
1928
The Hurricane Express
1932
Fighting With Kit Carson
1933
Broadway Bill
1934
The Match King
1932
The Weakness of Strength
1916
Cross-Examination
1932
Millie
1931
Chinatown After Dark
1931
The Hatchet Man
1932
Luck
1923
Lost in the Stratosphere
1934
Womanhandled
1925
The Reckoning
1932
Morals for Women
1931
The Wright Idea
1928
Damaged Hearts
1924
Alias Mary Smith
1932
The Good Bad Girl
1931
Young Bride
1932
Drifting Souls
1932
Laughing at Life
1933
Women Won't Tell
1932
Kismet
1930
The Sea Bat
1930
A Man of Sentiment
1933
Defenders of the Law
1931
The Painted Desert
1931
Above the Clouds
1933
The Cabin in the Cotton
1932
The Brown Derby
1926
Treasure Island
1934
The Live Wire
1925
Dancing Man
1934
Top Speed
1930
Bright Lights
1930
Tol'able David
1930
The Public Defender
1931
Playboy of Paris
1930
Back to Liberty
1927
Chiselers of Hollywood
1930
Madame Butterfly
1932
The Hottentot
1929
In the Headlines
1929
The Sixth Commandment
1924
Police Court
1932
International House
1933
Rough Waters
1930
Love Bound
1932
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930
On Trial
1928
Conquest
1928
Fancy Baggage
1929
Come On, Marines!
1934
Hold Everything
1930
Mata Hari
1931
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
1921
Beyond the Rainbow
1922
Stepping Along
1926
Girl Overboard
1929
As You Desire Me
1932
The Speed Spook
1924
The Czar of Broadway
1930
The Haunted House
1928
Only Yesterday
1933
The Billion Dollar Scandal
1933
The Golden West
1932
Bright Lights of Broadway
1923
The She-Wolf
1931
The Song of the Wage Slave
1915
Female
1933
Beloved
1934
Three O'Clock in the Morning
1923
On Your Guard
1933
Chains of Evidence
1920
Someone Must Pay
1919
The Lure of Heart's Desire
1916
The Spell of the Yukon
1916
The Master Crook
1918
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
1923
Sure-Fire Flint
1922
Those Who Judge
1924
The Master Mind
1914
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