Edmund Breese
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.
118 acting credits
Acting · 118
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930
Duck Soup
1933
Treasure Island
1934
Mata Hari
1931
Female
1933
Millie
1931
Platinum Blonde
1931
The Cabin in the Cotton
1932
Broadway Bill
1934
International House
1933
Only Yesterday
1933
The Sea Bat
1930
Kismet
1930
Fighting With Kit Carson
1933
The Painted Desert
1931
Bright Lights
1930
The Hurricane Express
1932
The Hatchet Man
1932
Above the Clouds
1933
Morals for Women
1931
As You Desire Me
1932
Top Speed
1930
Playboy of Paris
1930
The Public Defender
1931
Laughing at Life
1933
Madame Butterfly
1932
Women Won't Tell
1932
Beloved
1934
Return of the Terror
1934
Sonny Boy
1929
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
1921
Hold Everything
1930
On Trial
1928
Young Sinners
1931
Young Bride
1932
Chinatown After Dark
1931
Come On, Marines!
1934
Police Court
1932
The Sixth Commandment
1924
The Billion Dollar Scandal
1933
The Match King
1932
The Hottentot
1929
Dancing Man
1934
Stepping Along
1926
Fancy Baggage
1929
Luck
1923
Girl Overboard
1929
The Haunted House
1928
The Good Bad Girl
1931
Drifting Souls
1932
The Live Wire
1925
Paradise for Two
1927
Conquest
1928
Womanhandled
1925
The Czar of Broadway
1930
Cross-Examination
1932
Love Bound
1932
The Reckoning
1932
Home Made
1927
Tol'able David
1930
Damaged Hearts
1924
Finders Keepers
1928
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
1932
The Master Mind
1914
The Weakness of Strength
1916
The Golden West
1932
The Wright Idea
1928
Beyond the Rainbow
1922
A Man of Sentiment
1933
Burning Daylight
1928
Sure-Fire Flint
1922
Three O'Clock in the Morning
1923
The Perfect Crime
1928
Alias Mary Smith
1932
Back to Liberty
1927
Torchy's Kitty Coup
1933
Defenders of the Law
1931
The She-Wolf
1931
An Honorable Cad
1919
In the Headlines
1929
Ladies Must Love
1933
Rough Waters
1930
The Brown Derby
1926
Bright Lights of Broadway
1923
Marriage Morals
1923
Chains of Evidence
1920
Lost in the Stratosphere
1934
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
1933
On Your Guard
1933
Torchy's Night Cap
1932
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
1923
Restless Wives
1924
Girls Gone Wild
1929
Torchy's Busy Day
1932
The Highbinders
1926
The Song of the Wage Slave
1915
The Early Bird
1925
The Speed Spook
1924
Chiselers of Hollywood
1930
Someone Must Pay
1919
Torchy's Two Toots
1932
The Lure of Heart's Desire
1916
Torchy Raises the Auntie
1932
His Temporary Wife
1920
The Curse of Drink
1922
Torchy Rolls His Own
1932
Wildfire
1925
Torchy
1931
Torchy Turns the Trick
1932
Those Who Judge
1924
The Marriage Bargain
1935
The Spell of the Yukon
1916
Torchy Passes the Buck
1931
Trying Out Torchy
1933
The Fair Cheat
1923
Torchy Turns Turtle
1933
The Master Crook
1918
A Common Level
1920