Edmund Breese was an American stage and film actor of the silent era

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill

James O'Neill (actor)

James O'Neill was an actor and the father of the American playwright Eugene O'Neill....

 in The Count of Monte Cristo (1893), The Lion and the Mouse (1906) with Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett (actor)

Richard Bennett was an American actor who became a stage and silent screen matinee idol over the early decades of the twentieth century.-Early Life:...

, The Third Degree (1909) with Helen Ware

Helen Ware

Helen Ware ; born Helen Remer, was an American stage and film actress. She had a gradual but ultimately successful Broadway stage career and by her thirties was playing the character parts for which she became famous. She began playing character parts in silent films in 1914 and continued into the...

, The Master Mind (1913) with Elliott Dexter

Elliott Dexter

Elliott Dexter was an American film and stage actor. Dexter started his career in vaudeville and didn't move to films until he was 45. He retired from acting in 1925....

, the popular World War I era play Why Marry? (1917) with Estelle Winwood

Estelle Winwood

Estelle Winwood was an English stage and film actress who moved to the United States in mid-career and became celebrated for her longevity.-Early life and early career:...

 & Nat C. Goodwin and So This Is London (1922) with Donald Gallaher

Donald Gallaher

Donald Gallaher was an American actor.Gallaher was born in Quincy, Illinois. After moving to New York City as a child with his mother, he began acting in productions such as A Royal Family....

. He appeared in 129 films between 1914 and 1935. He is best remembered as the advice giving German teacher at the beginning of the war movie All Quiet on the Western Front.

Selected filmography

• The Master Mind
  The Master Mind
  The Master Mind is a 1914 American black & white silent crime/drama film directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille. The plot revolves around a defense attorney who, unable to obtain the acquittal of an innocent young man, concocts a complicated and diabolical scheme to revenge himself upon the...
  
  (1914) (based on the 1913 Broadway play starring Breese)
• The Shooting of Dan McGrew
  The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915 film)
  The Shooting of Dan McGrew is a 1915 silent American drama film directed by Herbert Blaché, based on the poem of the same name.- Cast :* Edmund Breese as Jim Maxwell* William A. Morse as Dan McGrew* Kathryn Adams as Lou Maxwell...
  
  (1915)
• The Lure of Heart's Desire
  The Lure of Heart's Desire
  The Lure of Heart's Desire is a 1916 silent American drama film directed by Francis J. Grandon. The film is considered to be lost.- Cast :* Edmund Breese as Jim Carew* Arthur Hoops as Thomas Martin* John Mahon as Crazy Jake...
  
  (1916)
• The Spell of the Yukon
  The Spell of the Yukon (film)
  The Spell of the Yukon is a 1916 silent American drama film directed by Burton L. King.- Cast :* Edmund Breese as Jim Carson* Arthur Hoops as Albert Temple* Christine Mayo as Helen Temple* William Sherwood as Bob Adams...
  
  (1916)
• The Weakness of Strength
  The Weakness of Strength
  The Weakness of Strength is a 1916 silent American drama film directed by Harry Revier. The film is considered to be a lost film.- Cast :* Edmund Breese as Daniel Gaynor* Clifford Bruce as Bill Jackson* Ormi Hawley as Mary Alden...
  
  (1916)
• Beyond the Rainbow
  Beyond the Rainbow
  Beyond the Rainbow is an American silent film starring Billie Dove and Harry T. Morey. The film is also notable as the first film actress Clara Bow appeared in.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1922)
• Restless Wives
  Restless Wives
  Restless Wives is a 1924 silent melodrama, directed by Gregory La Cava.-Plot:Polly, is a wealthy wife neglected by her husband James Benson. When a business engagement causes James to miss their wedding anniversary, Polly goes with admirer Curtis Wilbur to a cabaret, and later she decides to go...
  
  (1924)
• Hold Everything
  Hold Everything (1930 film)
  Hold Everything is a 1930 early all-talking film. It was the first musical comedy film to be released that was photographed entirely in early two-color Technicolor. It was adapted from the DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical of the same name that had served as a vehicle for Bert Lahr and...
  
  (1930)
• The Sea Bat
  The Sea Bat
  The Sea Bat is a 1930 thriller film directed by Lionel Barrymore and Wesley Ruggles, starring Raquel Torres and featuring Boris Karloff. Part of the movie was filmed on location in Mazatlán, Mexico....
  
  (1930)
• The Public Defender
  The Public Defender
  The Public Defender is a 1931 crime film directed by J. Walter Ruben, starring Richard Dix and featuring Boris Karloff. Rich playboy Pike Winslow dons the mantle of 'The Reckoner', a mysterious avenger, when he learns that his lady friend Barbara Gerry's father has been framed in a bank...
  
  (1931)
• Mata Hari (1931)
• Chinatown After Dark
  Chinatown After Dark
  -Cast:*Carmel Myers as Madame Ying Su*Rex Lease as James 'Jim' Bonner*Barbara Kent as Lotus*Edmund Breese as Le Fong*Frank Mayo as Ralph Bonner*Billy Gilbert as Horatio Dooley*Michael Visaroff as Mr. Varonoff*Laska Winters as Ming Fu...
  
  (1931)
• The Hurricane Express
  The Hurricane Express
  The Hurricane Express is a 12-chapter Mascot Pictures film serial that stars John Wayne as airplane pilot Larry Baker, who goes after a mystery villain named "The Wrecker," the man responsible for a train crash that killed his father.-Cast:...
  
  (1932)
• International House
  International House (1933 film)
  International House is a comedy film, directed by A. Edward Sutherland and released by Paramount Pictures. The tagline of the film was "the Grand Hotel of comedy".-Actors:*Peggy Hopkins Joyce as herself*W. C. Fields as Prof. Henry R...
  
  (1933)
• Treasure Island
  Treasure Island (1934 film)
  Treasure Island is a 1934 movie adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous 1883 novel Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and travels on a sailing ship to a remote island, but pirates led by Long John Silver threaten to take away the honest seafarers’ riches and...
  
  (1934)