Edmund Breon

Edmund Breon (12 Desember 1882 – 24 Juni 1953) adalah seorang aktor film dan panggung Skotlandia. Ia tampil dalam 131 film antara tahun 1907 dan 1952. Lahir sebagai Iver Edmund de Breon MacLaverty di Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, dia mulai di perusahaan tur John Hare dan kemudian bermain di panggung West End dan di Glasgow, menjadi terkenal. Menurut cucunya, Breon "mulai pada pergantian abad membuat film bisu di Prancis. Film vampir", jadi dapat dipastikan bahwa MacLaverty memang aktor yang tampil dengan nama Edmond Bréon di banyak film Gaumont 1907-1922 termasuk, yang paling terkenal, memainkan peran Inspektur Juve untuk Louis Feuillade dalam serial Fantômas yang inovatif. Dia juga muncul di sebagian kecil dalam serial Feuillade 1915-1916 Les vampir, meskipun, seperti dugaan cucunya, ini bukan film horor. Dia kembali ke Inggris di mana dia membuat film A Little Bit of Fluff (1928), kemudian pergi ke Kanada pada tahun 1929 dan menggarap lahan tersebut. Setahun kemudian dia beremigrasi ke Amerika Serikat dan mendapatkan peran film besar Amerika pertamanya dalam The Dawn Patrol (1930). Breon muncul dalam campuran film Inggris dan Amerika selama dua dekade berikutnya. Dia juga muncul di panggung dalam produksi komedi Spring Meeting West End pada tahun 1938. Sebuah artikel surat kabar tahun 1949 mencatat bahwa "karir Breon terganggu oleh penyakit serius dan kecelakaan yang membuatnya menganggur selama dua tahun". Breon meninggal di negara asalnya Skotlandia pada 24 Juni 1953.

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 Hare's 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 1907-1922 including, most famously, playing the part of Inspector Juve for Louis Feuillade in the ground-breaking Fantômas series. He did also appear in a small part in the 1915-1916 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 Breon's "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.