Edmund Breon

Edmund Breon 12 December 1882 24 June 1953 was a Scottish film and stage actor He appeared in 131 films between 1907 and 1952 Born Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty in Hamilton South Lanarkshire he began in John Hares touring company and later played on the West End stage and in Glasgow gaining prominence According to his grandson Breon started out at the turn of the century doing silent pictures in France Vampire movies so it is reasonably certain that MacLaverty is indeed the actor who appeared under the name Edmond Bréon in many Gaumont films 19071922 including most famously playing the part of Inspector Juve for Louis Feuillade in the groundbreaking Fantômas series He did also appear in a small part in the 19151916 Feuillade series Les vampires although this is not as his grandson supposes a horror film He returned to Britain where he made the film A Little Bit of Fluff 1928 then went to Canada in 1929 and worked on the land A year later he emigrated to the United States and gained his first big American film part in The Dawn Patrol 1930 Breon appeared in a mixture of British and American films over the following two decades He also appeared on stage in the West End production of the comedy Spring Meeting in 1938 A 1949 newspaper article noted that Breons career has been interrupted by serious illness and an accident which kept him idle for two years Breon died in his native Scotland on June 24 1953