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Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 β 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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Broadway Bill (1934)
Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)
Treasure Island (1934)
Return of the Terror (1934)
Come On, Marines! (1934)
Dancing Man (1934)
Beloved (1934)
Above the Clouds (1933)
Duck Soup (1933)
Female (1933)
Only Yesterday (1933)
A Man of Sentiment (1933)
Trying Out Torchy (1933)
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points (1933)
Laughing at Life (1933)
Fighting With Kit Carson (1933)
Torchy's Loud Spooker (1933)
International House (1933)
Torchy Turns Turtle (1933)
On Your Guard (1933)
Torchy's Kitty Coup (1933)
The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)
The Match King (1932)
Madame Butterfly (1932)
Women Won't Tell (1932)
The Golden West (1932)
Torchy Rolls His Own (1932)
Torchy's Busy Day (1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Drifting Souls (1932)
The Hurricane Express (1932)
Alias Mary Smith (1932)
Torchy's Two Toots (1932)
As You Desire Me (1932)
Torchy Raises the Auntie (1932)
Young Bride (1932)
Torchy's Night Cap (1932)
Love Bound (1932)
Police Court (1932)
The Reckoning (1932)
Cross-Examination (1932)
Torchy Turns the Trick (1932)
The Hatchet Man (1932)
Mata Hari (1931)
Torchy Passes the Buck (1931)
Platinum Blonde (1931)
Morals for Women (1931)
Chinatown After Dark (1931)
Torchy (1931)
The Public Defender (1931)
Defenders of the Law (1931)
The Good Bad Girl (1931)
Young Sinners (1931)
The She-Wolf (1931)
Millie (1931)
The Painted Desert (1931)
Chiselers of Hollywood (1930)
Tol'able David (1930)
Kismet (1930)
Playboy of Paris (1930)
Bright Lights (1930)
Top Speed (1930)
The Sea Bat (1930)
Rough Waters (1930)
The Czar of Broadway (1930)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Hold Everything (1930)
In the Headlines (1929)
Girl Overboard (1929)
Sonny Boy (1929)
Fancy Baggage (1929)
Conquest (1928)
On Trial (1928)
The Haunted House (1928)
The Wright Idea (1928)
The Perfect Crime (1928)
Burning Daylight (1928)
Finders Keepers (1928)
Back to Liberty (1927)
Paradise for Two (1927)
Stepping Along (1926)
The Brown Derby (1926)
The Highbinders (1926)
Womanhandled (1925)
The Live Wire (1925)
The Early Bird (1925)
The Speed Spook (1924)
The Sixth Commandment (1924)
Damaged Hearts (1924)
Restless Wives (1924)
Three O'Clock in the Morning (1923)
Bright Lights of Broadway (1923)
Luck (1923)
Beyond the Rainbow (1922)
A Man's Home (1921)
Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1921)
Chains of Evidence (1920)
Someone Must Pay (1919)
An Honorable Cad (1919)
The Weakness of Strength (1916)
The Song of the Wage Slave (1915)
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GenderMale
Birthday1871-06-18
Deathday1936-04-06 (64 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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