Edmund Breese
Actor
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.
Filmography
Duck Soup
as Zander 1933
Treasure Island
as Pirate of the Spanish Main 1934
Mata Hari
as Warden 1931
Platinum Blonde
as Conroy 1931
Female
as Board Member (Uncredited) 1933
Broadway Bill
as Presiding Judge 1934
Millie
as Defense Attorney 1931
The Cabin in the Cotton
as Holmes Scott 1932
International House
as Doctor Wong 1933
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho's Grandfather 1932
The Hurricane Express
as The Secretary's Father 1932
The Painted Desert
as Judge Matthews 1931
As You Desire Me
as Friar 1932
The Hatchet Man
as Yu Chang 1932
The Sea Bat
as Maddocks 1930
Cross-Examination
as Dwight Simpson 1932