Edmund Breese
Acting
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.
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Herr Meyer
Age 58 (now 64)
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
as Himself
Age 62 (now 64)
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
as Colonel Shelby
Age 61 (now 64)
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Herr Meyer
Age 58 (now 64)
Bright Lights of Broadway
as Reverend Graham Drake
Age 52 (now 64)
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
as Edmund MacDonald
Age 51 (now 64)
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