From WikipediaEdmund 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 ONeill 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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Duck Soup

Zander

Movie 1933

Finders Keepers

Hastings

Movie 1928

Burning Daylight

John Dossett

Movie 1928

Platinum Blonde

Conroy

Movie 1931

Sonny Boy

Thorpe

Movie 1929

Young Sinners

Trent

Movie 1931

Paradise for Two

Uncle Howard

Movie 1927

Return of the Terror

Editor

Movie 1934

The Perfect Crime

Wilmot

Movie 1928

The Hurricane Express

The Secretary's Father

Movie 1932

Fighting With Kit Carson

Matt Fargo

Movie 1933

Trying Out Torchy

Mr. Ellins

Movie 1933

Broadway Bill

Presiding Judge

Movie 1934

An Honorable Cad

Movie 1919

The Match King

Olaf Christofsen

Movie 1932

The Weakness of Strength

Daniel Gaynor

Movie 1916

Cross-Examination

Dwight Simpson

Movie 1932

Millie

Defense Attorney

Movie 1931

Chinatown After Dark

Le Fong

Movie 1931

The Hatchet Man

Yu Chang

Movie 1932

Luck

Alan Crosby

Movie 1923

Lost in the Stratosphere

Col. Brooks

Movie 1934

Womanhandled

Uncle Lester

Movie 1925

The Reckoning

Doc

Movie 1932

Morals for Women

Mr. Hutson

Movie 1931

The Wright Idea

Mr. Filbert

Movie 1928

Damaged Hearts

Innkeeper

Movie 1924

Torchy Raises the Auntie

Mr. Ellins

Movie 1932

Torchy Passes the Buck

Mr. Ellins

Movie 1931

Torchy Turns the Trick

Hickory Ellins

Movie 1932

Torchy's Night Cap

Hickory Ellins

Movie 1932

Torchy

Hickory Ellins

Movie 1931

Torchy's Two Toots

Hickory Ellins

Movie 1932

Torchy's Busy Day

Hickory Ellins

Movie 1932

Torchy's Kitty Coup

Edward (Hickory) Ellins

Movie 1933

Torchy Rolls His Own

Mr. Ellins

Movie 1932

Torchy Turns Turtle

Mr. Ellins

Movie 1933

Alias Mary Smith

Mr. Hayes

Movie 1932

The Good Bad Girl

J.P. Henderson

Movie 1931

Young Bride

Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker

Movie 1932

Drifting Souls

Brad Martin

Movie 1932

Laughing at Life

Cabinet Officer

Movie 1933

Women Won't Tell

Attorney for the Defense

Movie 1932

Kismet

Jawan

Movie 1930

The Sea Bat

Maddocks

Movie 1930

A Man of Sentiment

John Russell Sr.

Movie 1933

Defenders of the Law

Capt. Bill Houston

Movie 1931

The Painted Desert

Judge Matthews

Movie 1931

Above the Clouds

Crusty

Movie 1933

The Cabin in the Cotton

Holmes Scott

Movie 1932

The Brown Derby

John J. Caldwell

Movie 1926

Treasure Island

Pirate of the Spanish Main

Movie 1934

The Live Wire

Sawdust Sam

Movie 1925

Dancing Man

J.C. Trevor

Movie 1934

Top Speed

Spencer Colgate

Movie 1930

Bright Lights

Franklin Harris

Movie 1930

Tol'able David

Hunter Kinemon

Movie 1930

Playboy of Paris

General de Karodek

Movie 1930

Back to Liberty

Tom Devon

Movie 1927

The Early Bird

The Great La Tour

Movie 1925

Chiselers of Hollywood

Movie 1930

Madame Butterfly

Cho-Cho's Grandfather

Movie 1932

In the Headlines

Eddy

Movie 1929

The Hottentot

Ollie

Movie 1929

The Sixth Commandment

Col. Saunders

Movie 1924

Police Court

Judge Robert Webster

Movie 1932

International House

Doctor Wong

Movie 1933

Rough Waters

Captain Thomas

Movie 1930

Love Bound

J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison

Movie 1932

All Quiet on the Western Front

Herr Meyer

Movie 1930

On Trial

Judge

Movie 1928

Fancy Baggage

John Hardin

Movie 1929

Conquest

William Holden

Movie 1928

Hold Everything

Pop O'Keefe

Movie 1930

Mata Hari

Warden

Movie 1931

Burn 'Em Up Barnes

King Cole

Movie 1921

Beyond the Rainbow

Insp. Richardson

Movie 1922

Stepping Along

Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky

Movie 1926

Girl Overboard

Jim Keefe

Movie 1929

How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points

Himself

Movie 1933

As You Desire Me

Friar

Movie 1932

The Speed Spook

Chuck Brady

Movie 1924

The Highbinders

Mike Harrigan

Movie 1926

The Czar of Broadway

Movie 1930

The Haunted House

Uncle Herbert

Movie 1928

Only Yesterday

Investor (Uncredited)

Movie 1933

The Billion Dollar Scandal

Mr. Haddock

Movie 1933

The Golden West

Sam Lynch

Movie 1932

Bright Lights of Broadway

Reverend Graham Drake

Movie 1923

The She-Wolf

Movie 1931

The Song of the Wage Slave

Movie 1915

Female

Board Member (Uncredited)

Movie 1933

Beloved

Maj. Tarrant

Movie 1934

Three O'Clock in the Morning

Mr. Winthrop

Movie 1923

Restless Wives

Hobart Richards

Movie 1924

On Your Guard

Prison Warden

Movie 1933

Chains of Evidence

Judge Frank Sturgis

Movie 1920

Someone Must Pay

Charles Bryant

Movie 1919

The Lure of Heart's Desire

Jim Carew

Movie 1916

The Spell of the Yukon

Jim Carson

Movie 1916

The Master Crook

Movie 1918

Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers

Edmund MacDonald

Movie 1923

Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure

Colonel Shelby

Movie 1932

Sure-Fire Flint

Johnny Jetts

Movie 1922

Those Who Judge

Henry Dawson

Movie 1924