Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage[1] and film actor of the silent era.

[2] The Opera House in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, was the site of Breese's stage debut in the summer of 1895.

[2] Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering films, Breese 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?

Just before the play ended its run, Breese developed peritonitis, from which he died on April 6, 1936[5] at the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled.

[2] Funeral services were at the Church of the Transfiguration in New York City on April 8, 1936, after which his body was cremated.